# Francesco Azopardi

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{{Short description|Maltese composer and music theorist (1748–1809)}}
[[File:Rabat Maltese 2017 02.jpg|thumb|Plaque commemorating Azopardi in his hometown [Rabat](/source/Rabat%2C_Malta)]]

'''Francesco Azopardi''' (or '''Azzopardi''') (May 5, 1748 – February 1809) was a [Maltese](/source/Malta) composer and music theorist.<ref>Spiridion Vincent Buhagiar, ''Francesco Azopardi (1748–1809): A Maltese Classical Composer, Theorist, and Teacher'', Mediterranean Institute, [University of Malta](/source/University_of_Malta), Msida, Malta, 1999, Dissertation</ref>

==Life and career==
Azopardi was born in [Notabile](/source/Notabile). He received his musical training in Malta and during his stay from 1763 to 1774 in [Naples](/source/Naples) at the [Conservatory of San Onofrio](/source/Conservatory_of_San_Onofrio) under [Carlo Cotumacci](/source/list_of_music_students_by_teacher%3A_C_to_F) and Joseph Doll. He worked at [St. Paul's Cathedral, Mdina](/source/St._Paul's_Cathedral%2C_Mdina), and, from 1789 following the Napoleonic invasion and flight of the [Knights of St. John](/source/Knights_of_St._John), combined his responsibilities at Mdina with those at [St. John's Co-Cathedral](/source/St._John's_Co-Cathedral) in [Valletta](/source/Valletta). One of his successes was a setting of [Metastasio](/source/Metastasio)'s libretto ''[La Passione di Gesù Cristo](/source/La_Passione_di_Ges%C3%B9_Cristo)'' he conducted at the [Manoel Theatre](/source/Manoel_Theatre) in Valletta in 1782. He died in [Rabat](/source/Rabat%2C_Malta).

He is known especially through his work ''Il Musico Prattico'', which appeared in French translation by [Nicolas-Étienne Framery](/source/Nicolas-%C3%89tienne_Framery).

==Works==

=== Secular music ===
*''Malta felice'' ([cantata](/source/cantata), 1775)
*''La magica lanterna'' ([opera buffa](/source/opera_buffa), 1791)

=== Sacred vocal music ===
*''La passione di Cristo'' ([oratorio](/source/oratorio), [libretto](/source/libretto) by [Pietro Metastasio](/source/Pietro_Metastasio), 1782, 1802)
*Various masses composed between 1768 and 1806
*Various sacred works composed between 1772 and 1796
*Songs, hymns and psalms composed between 1772 and 1807

=== Instrumental music ===
*Overture for 2 oboes, 2 violins, 2 horns, bass, and organ (1782)
*Sinfonia for 2 oboes, 2 violins, 2 violas, horn and basso continuo (1797) 
*Sinfonia for oboe obbligato, oboe, 2 violins, 2 horns and basso continuo (1799)

=== Treatises ===
*''Il musico prattico''
*''Dissertazione sulla risoluzione della quinta falsa in 6/4 rivolto dell'armonia di 5/3''
*''Dissertazione sulla musica greca''

==Selected recordings==
* ''Les manuscrits de Malte 3 – Oeuvres de Francesco Azopardi'': Lauda Sion. Assumpta est. Beatus Vir. Confitebor. Dixit Dominus. [Maîtrise des Bouches du Rhône](/source/Ma%C3%AEtrise_des_Bouches_du_Rh%C3%B4ne), leader Jeannine Prosper, Jeune Ensemble Baroque de Provence, dir. Giuseppe Dellavalle. Studio SM, Paris. 1998.

==References==
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==External links==
* {{IMSLP|id=Azopardi%2C_Francesco}}

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