{{short description|Italian composer}}
'''Luigi Mosca''' (1775 – 30 November 1824) was an Italian composer of operas and sacred music and a noted singing teacher. He composed eighteen operas, most of which were originally for theatres in Naples, but played throughout Italy in their day.
==Biography== Mosca was born in Naples and studied at the Pietà dei Turchini Conservatory there. Like his elder brother Giuseppe Mosca (also an opera composer), he studied composition under Fedele Fenaroli.
==Works==
===Operas=== *''L'impresario burlato'' (opera buffa, libretto by Francesco Antonio Signoretti, Teatro Nuovo, Naples, 1797) *''La sposa tra le imposture'' (opera buffa, libretto by Francesco Antonio Signoretti, Teatro Nuovo, Naples, 1798) *''Un imbroglio ne porta un altro'' (opera buffa, libretto by Giuseppe Palomba, Teatro Nuovo, Naples, 1799) *''Gli sposi in cimento'' (opera buffa, libretto by Francesco Saverio Zini, Teatro Nuovo, Naples, 1800) *''L'omaggio sincero'' (musical allegory in honour of Ferdinand I of the Two Sicilies, libretto by Giuseppe Pagliuca, Teatro del Palazzo Reale, Naples, 1800) *''Le stravaganze d'amore'' (opera buffa, libretto by Francesco Saverio Zini, Teatro Nuovo, Naples, 1800) *''Gli amanti volubili'' (opera buffa, libretto by Jacopo Ferretti, Teatro Valle, Rome, 1801) *''L'amore per inganno (L'amoroso inganno; La cantatrice di spirito)'' (opera buffa, libretto by Giuseppe Palomba, Teatro dei Fiorentini, Naples, 1801) *''Il ritorno impensato (Il ritorno inaspettato)'' (opera buffa, libretto by Francesco Saverio Zini, Teatro dei Fiorentini, Naples, 1802) *''L'impostore ossia Il Marcotondo'' (opera buffa, libretto by Andrea Leone Tottola, Teatro Nuovo, Naples, 1802) *''La vendetta femminina'' (opera buffa, Teatro dei Fiorentini, Naples, 1803; as ''La lezione vendetta'', Théâtre-Italien, Paris, 1806) *''Gli zingari in fiera'' (opera buffa, libretto by Giuseppe Palomba, Genoa, 1806) *''I finti viaggiatori'' (opera buffa, libretto by Nicasio De Mase, Teatro dei Fiorentini, Naples, 1807) *''L'italiana in Algeri'' (opera buffa, libretto by Angelo Anelli, La Scala, Milan, 1808) *''La sposa a sorte'' (opera buffa, libretto by Giuseppe Palomba, Teatro dei Fiorentini, Naples, 1810) *''Il salto di Leucade'' (opera seria, libretto by Giovanni Schmidt, Teatro San Carlo, Naples, 1812) *''L'audacia delusa'' (opera buffa, libretto by Giuseppe Palomba, Teatro dei Fiorentini, Naples, 1813) *''Il bello piace a tutti'' (excerpt held in the Vatican Library)
==Sources== *de Rosa di Villarosa, Carlo Antonio (1840). "Mosca, Luigi" in [https://books.google.com/books?id=oecWAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA247 ''Memorie dei compositori di musica del regno di Napoli'']. Stamperia reale {{in lang|it}} *{{Cite Grove |last=Tartak |first=Marvin |last2=Beghelli |first2=Marco |title=Mosca, Luigi|name-list-style=amp}} *Wier, Albert Ernest (ed.) (1938). "Mosca, Luigi" in [https://books.google.com/books?id=aiAKAQAAMAAJ&q=%22Mosca,+Luigi%22 ''The Macmillan Encyclopedia of Music and Musicians'', Volume 2]. The Macmillan Company
==External links== * {{IMSLP|id=Mosca, Luigi}}
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{{DEFAULTSORT:Mosca, Luigi}} Category:Italian Classical-period composers Category:Italian opera composers Category:Italian male opera composers Category:1775 births Category:1824 deaths Category:Composers from Naples Category:Musicians from the Kingdom of Naples Category:Musicians from the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies