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'''Giuseppe Concone''' (September 12, 1801 - June 1, 1861 Turin) was an Italian voice teacher and composer.<ref name="Grove">{{Cite encyclopedia |author=Elizabeth Forbes|date=2001|entry=Concone, (Paolo) Giuseppe (Gioacchino)|encyclopedia=Grove Music Online|publisher=Oxford University Press |doi=10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.article.06261}}</ref>
==Life and career== Giuseppe Concone was born in Turin, Italy on September 12, 1801. He had a brief career as singer before devoting himself almost entirely to working as a voice teacher; beginning that work in Turin. He composed the opera ''Un episodio del San Michele'' which premiered in Turin on 8 June 1836. He composed a second opera, ''Graziella'', which was never performed.<ref name="Grove"/>
In 1837 Concone went to Paris where he became a celebrated voice instructor. He taught there for eleven years during which time he published several books on vocal training and technique; some of which have remained in use.<ref name="Grove"/> He became widely known for his vocal exercises—solfeggi and vocalizzi—which are unusually attractive for works of their kind, and at the same time excellent for their special purpose.<ref name=nie /> Thomaidis and MacPherson describe them as 'lively' works in the Italian tradition of those times.<ref name="Voice Studies: Critical Approaches to Process, Performance and Experience">{{cite book|last1=Thomaidis|first1=Konstantinos|last2=Macpherson|first2=Ben|title=Voice Studies: Critical Approaches to Process, Performance and Experience|date=2015|isbn=9781317611028|page=35|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=oFGsCQAAQBAJ&pg=PT255|accessdate=16 January 2016}}</ref> While in Paris he wrote three 'oratorios.' One commentator (named Smither) wrote: "These are quite brief, and include no orchestra but only piano accompaniment. They are evidently intended for performance in a private soiree rather than a theatre. No performance of any of the three is known."<ref name="A History of the Oratorio, Vol. 4 The Oratorio in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries.">{{cite book|last1=Smither|first1=Howard|title=A History of the Oratorio, Vol. 4 The Oratorio in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries.|date=2000|publisher=The University of North Carolina Press|location=Chapel Hill|isbn=9780807837788|pages=519|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=1qh_QfteHVEC&pg=PA519|accessdate=16 January 2016}}</ref>
Concone returned to Italy in 1848, probably due to events resulting from the Revolutions of 1848. He was appointed both organist and maestro di cappella of the Sardinian court in Turn; a position he remained in until his death in Turin on September 12, 1861.<ref name="Grove"/><ref name=nie>{{NIE|wstitle=Concone, Giuseppe|inline=1}}</ref>
Concone also composed some etudes for piano in ''25 Melodic Studies, Op. 24.'',<ref>Wayne Groves, Principal Trombone of the Orquesta Sinfónica de Aguascalientes, published (2008) "50 Studies for Trombone," taken from Concone's "50 Lessons for Medium Voice, Op. 9."</ref> and concert arias and duets.<ref name="Grove"/>
==List of works by Concone== * [https://archive.org/details/fifteenvocalises12conc ''Fifteen Vocalises for Soprano''] * [https://archive.org/details/imslp-leons-de-chant-op10-concone-giuseppe ''Twenty-Five Lessons for Medium Voice''] * [https://archive.org/details/imslp-leons-de-chant-op9-concone-giuseppe ''Fifty Lessons for High Voice''] * [https://archive.org/stream/imslp-leons-de-chant-op9-concone-giuseppe/PMLP83045-Concone%2C_Giuseppe_-_50_Lessons_for_Low_Voice%2C_Op._9#page/n1/mode/2up ''Fifty Lessons for Medium Voice''], see also [https://archive.org/stream/imslp-leons-de-chant-op9-concone-giuseppe/PMLP83045-Concone%2C_Giuseppe_-_50_Lessons_for_Medium_Voice%2C_Op._9#page/n7/mode/2up here] * [https://archive.org/details/fortylessonsforb00conc ''Forty Lessons for Bass or Baritone''] * [https://archive.org/details/thirtyexercisesf00conc ''Thirty Exercises for the Voice''] ==References== ===Citations=== {{reflist|30em}}
==External links== * {{Internet Archive author |sname=Giuseppe Concone}} * [https://archive.org/search.php?query=creator%3A%22Concone%2C+Giuseppe%2C+1801-1861%22 Giuseppe Concone] - digitised books on the Internet Archive * {{IMSLP|id=Concone,_Giuseppe|cname=Giuseppe Concone}}
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