The Great Maltese Composers

JOSEPH VELLA BONDIN

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Great Maltese Composers HISTORICAL CONTEXT, LIVES, AND WORKS

ABOUT THE BOOK The Great Maltese Composers: historical context, lives, and works is the first comprehensive study of Maltese music to be written in the English language.

The need for such a book in English became apparent to the author from the reaction of local and foreign publishers, libraries, and scholars following the publication of his two earlier books in Maltese on a related theme: Il-Mużika ta’ Malta sa l-Aħħar tas-Seklu Tmintax and Il-Mużika ta’ Malta fis-Sekli Dsatax u Għoxrin (PIN, Malta, 2000).

The present book has been written for a general readership, and the author’s aim has been to organise the material in a way that makes clear the way in which Maltese music has developed from its earliest manifestation as plainchant in its medieval cathedral in the old capital of Mdina to its postIndependence manifestations in the second half of the twentieth century; throughout, particular attention has been paid to the development of church music and opera. The accent is, of course, on those composers who have contributed most significantly to this progress, for it is the composers themselves who are the fulcrum of any historical development in music.

Throughout, an attempt has been made to humanize the composers as much as possible by giving an awareness of what they felt and experienced, for surely any man’s music is a reflection of himself, as conditioned by the era and events in which he was living.

As is the normal consuetude for books on similar themes, every attempt has been made to render each chapter as self-contained as possible so that it can be read and understood without undue reliance on other chapters.

The author has included many appendices that are intended to amplify the text on matters whose more detailed consideration within the pertinent chapter would have been to the detriment of the free-flow and continuity of the main exposition. They also deal with certain topics on ancillary and more peripheral aspects of Maltese music – such as the rite of Tenebrae; the mechanics of a benefit concert; the use of the piano in the Holy Week liturgy; the Camera degli Autori e Compositori di Musica Maltesi – on which little information has so far been available.

Based on the author’s extensive and continuing research, the book provides important new material and perspectives on the achievements of Maltese composers and their contribution to the development of music in Europe particularly over the last four centuries.

Cover: Jacques Coelemans, Quaedam Sensuum Intrumentia, detail, private collection (Courtesy Prof. Keith Sciberras)

Previous page: Antoine de Favray Interior of St John’s depicted during the annual ceremony of thanksgiving for the deliverance of Malta following the siege of 1565.

(Reproduced by kind permission of The State Hermitage Museum, St Petersburg)

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First published in 2016 Copyright © Literary, Joseph Vella Bondin, 2016 Copyright © Editorial, APS Bank Ltd, 2016 This book is being sold on condition that it cannot be re-sold. No change in its format and no part of this book may be reproduced in any form or by any means, mechanical or electronical, including photocopy, recording or any information storage and retrieval system, now known or to be invented, without permission in writing from the author or the publisher, except by a reviewer written for insertion in a magazine, newspaper or broadcast.

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This book is dedicated with esteem to all Maltese composers, past and present, whose works have greatly enriched Malta’s musical patrimony and Malta’s international cultural profile

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Foreword

A PEOPLE THAT IS IGNORANT of its past, particularly if this past is culturally rich and humanly evocative, is indeed poor, no matter how significant has been its material progress. It is Art, in its various forms, which enables people to transcend above all other creatures and renders them unique, as a group and as individuals, in the vast universe that surrounds them. Mankind’s creativity in expressing emotions verges on the divine, and stands in sharp contrast to mankind’s other equally strong attribute, that of self-destruction. Life, beauty, hope and joy mingle with fear, doubt, uncertainty and despair to delineate the history of the human race. And these sentiments are expressed in stone and ceramics, on canvas, musical scores and traditional chants that have for ages emerged from the vicissitudes of different people the world over.

It is within this context that Joseph Vella Bondin’s masterful text The Great Maltese Composers: historical context, lives, and works has to be read and appreciated. The author has already contributed to our knowledge of the life and works of Maltese composers. But since his main opus has been written in Maltese, its reach was heavily constrained in terms of readership with the result that the beauty and vigour of the output of so many talented Maltese composers remained undiscovered and, as a result, silent and unheard. Indeed many of these compositions have been forgotten and, in some cases, we are not even aware of their location. They are lost.

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churches during the main feasts of the calendar of the Catholic Church.

The rulings related to the sacred liturgy and the forms of musical compositions permitted in churches, especially after Vatican Council II, actually resulted in the outright prohibition of many of the masterpieces composed for performance in the nineteenth century and addressed for other communities of believers. Musical forms tend to change over time; what may be popular with one generation is at times discarded by the others that follow. New forms of expression in idiom and sound, duration of works, and suitability to a ritual evolve. And it is this natural progression, at times abetted by decrees, which contribute to the eventual neglect and oblivion of a composer’s work.

As the artistic director for the APS Bank’s annual concerts, and as Chairman of the adjudicating panel that assessed the entries for the two APS Bank competitions for Maltese composers, Joseph Vella Bondin has been contributing to the discovery of the Malta’s rich heritage in music.

His researched concert programmes developed into a manual on Maltese composers over the past three centuries; the edited musical scores gave a new lease of life to the selected works; while the recordings preserve for posterity the talent and the sounds that lay dormant in various public and private archives in Malta and abroad.

Encouraged by the results of these initiatives, APS Bank invited Mr Vella Bondin to undertake the task of writing an introductory text in English narrating the lives of the main Maltese composers and evaluating their contribution to music. The outcome is an accolade to human interaction which spans across nation states, fertilises imagination and sets high standards which truly great composers aim for and achieve. Several great ‘Maltese’ composers actually were first-generation immigrants to these Islands who settled here. But they or their progeny continued to study and work in several countries, in particular in Naples and in other states in Italy. This internationalisation of training and performance ensured that would-be composers competed with the very best creative minds that travelled around Europe and the Mediterranean littoral over the past three hundred years.

Mr Vella Bondin’s text is also a tribute to human adaptation to one’s environment that is itself influenced highly by the economic and political events at specific time periods. Maltese composers who sought recognition for their work had to compete for approval from audiences in the theatres of the main cities, from London to St Petersburg. In Malta, they excelled in works written for liturgical ceremonies in churches. The patrons of

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Malta’s theatres had a penchant for works performed abroad which, in the main, were scored by non-Maltese composers.

Like all other artists, composers have to feel the popular sentiment that surrounds them. First and foremost they are human with a strong drive to compose. But they have to survive. This search for a balance in life, the struggle to find one’s place in society and give a meaning to one’s existence: these human traits emerge vividly in Mr Vella Bondin’s assessment of the composers’ works and life. The rich musical scores, exemplified in the recordings on the compact discs that accompany this book, reflect the inner soul of the composers in their journey through life. It is this humanity that, in turn, renders their music appealing to attentive listeners. This book complements other cultural publications that APS Bank has been issuing.

Two volumes have so far been written evaluating the contributions to visual art by two generations of Maltese artistic families. These assess the influence of parents on their sons and daughters on the same thrust that Mr Vella Bondin’s work traces such relations for musical talent. And there are plans to follow similar analyses in the domain of photography. In this way we will be giving recognition to the many Maltese families who acted, perhaps unknowingly, as the pulse of society expressing through various media the community’s main preoccupations and aspirations over time.

I am sure that readers will not only enjoy going through Mr Vella Bondin’s text for the knowledge that it imparts. By itself that is already a positive intake. But they will also relate themselves to the composers who struggled to find a meaning to life itself. Such identification will make the reading doubly useful. And I thank Joseph Vella Bondin for succeeding to write about the life and works of these great Maltese composers in such a way as to render them truly human with whom readers can relate. And the musical excerpts should inspire listeners to seek other compositions.

It is only in this way that recognition of Malta’s best musical talent will eventually materialise.

E. P. Delia Chairman, APS Bank 5 January 2016

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Contents

Foreword vii Contents xi Preface xxi Background Information xxix Abbreviations xxxiii Chronology of principal Maltese composers xxxvii PART I: PRE-18TH CENTURY

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1 The Early History of Music in Malta The earliest possible phase of liturgical music The Arabic period Progress of plainchant Non-liturgical music before the Knights The building of Valletta Polyphonic music in the Cathedral Aloysio Mataron Early educational system Evolving musical entertainments APPENDIX 1: The Folk Music of Malta: an overview APPENDIX 2: Roman Music and the Temple of Juno in Malta ADDENDA - Discography

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2 The First Great Maltese Composers Giuseppe Balzano (1616-1700) and his brother Domenico (1632-1707) 31 Balzano Brothers Timeline 31 The Baroque and Tridentine reforms 33 Giuseppe Balzano: life in Valletta 35 The Cathedral’s ‘maestri di musica’ 37 39 ADDENDA - Discography PART II: The 18th century

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3 Music in the Eighteenth Century The Order’s ‘cappella di musica’ Non-liturgical music The Manoel Theatre Music away from the Order Patronage in music The Classical phase APPENDIX 1: Tenebrae 1. A moving liturgical rite no longer celebrated 2. The musical settings APPENDIX 2: APS Bank and Maltese Music ADDENDA - Discography

43 44 46 48 50 54 56 60 60 63 68 73

4 In the service of the Order of St John Filippo Pizzuto (1704-after1747) Timeline Early years Higher studies in Naples Member of St. John’s ‘cappella’ Known compositions

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5 Rehabilitation of a composer unknown in his native land Giuseppe Arena Timeline Family Musical studies in Naples Professional work in Italy APPENDIX: Giuseppe Arena’s Family

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6 A reformer of many parts Michel’Angelo Vella Timeline Youth The years in Naples Exercising a sacred vocation and a musical profession Composer of cantatas Teaching Music for the liturgy Non-sacred instrumental works The final years APPENDIX: Public administration during the Order’s rule - a brief note ADDENDA - Discography

99 100 102 103 104 106 108 113 116 118 119 120

7 The supreme Neapolitan ‘maestro di cappella’ Girolamo Abos Timeline Identity Early years Studies in Naples Conservatory teacher Opera composer Other non-liturgical works Liturgical works Final years APPENDIX: Naples in the 18th century – an overview ADDENDA - Discography

121 121 123 125 127 128 129 133 136 143 145 149

8 One post – two competitors Benigno Zerafa and Francesco Azopardi Zerafa-Azopardi Timeline Benigno Zerafa: early life : ordained and dismissed : reinstated as ‘maestro di cappella’ : a most productive period Francesco Azopardi: early life : sojourn in Naples : the cathedral’s organist

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The elevation of Azopardi and the capitulation of Zerafa 180 Zerafa’s concluding years 182 Azopardi’s ‘Il Musico Prattico’ 185 Azopardi’s concluding years 187 Benigno Zerafa: compositions 190 Francesco Azopardi: works 194 ADDENDA - Discography 200 9 The superlative ‘French’ composer Nicolò Isouard Timeline The early years Personality The first known works In the service of the Order In the service of the French invaders In the service of the French theatre The final years APPENDIX: Isouard’s operas: annotated list ADDENDA - Discography

203 204 207 209 210 214 218 224 227 234 238

PART III: The 19th century

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10 Music in Nineteenth Century Malta and the repercussions of Pope Pius X’s Motu proprio Music in the Mdina Cathedral St John’s co-Cathedral and the British regime Music in St John’s The Maltese ‘cappella di musica’ The Cecilian movement and Don Giuseppe Scicluna Liturgical music away from the Cathedrals Controversial liturgical music Battle of the Cappelle ‒ Maltese version of the ‘Querelle des Bouffons?’

Luigi Fenech and Francesco Decesare Orchestral music in the church: the ‘sinfonia da chiesa’ Pope Pius X’s ‘Motu proprio’ The operatic theatre: Teatru Manoel

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: Teatru Rjal : operas by Maltese composers British Influence: civic bands : drawing room entertainment APPENDIX 1: Vatican’s institution of the ‘cappella di musica’ APPENDIX 2: Some remarks on music in Italy and the influence of the Cecilian Movement APPENDIX 3: The ‘Motu proprio’: a summary APPENDIX 4: Maria Zarlatti: the mechanics of a successful benefit ADDENDA - Discography 11 The rise of the Maltese cappella Pietro Paolo (1772-1828) and the Bugeja Dynasty Bugeja Family Timeline Pietro Paolo Bugeja (1772-1828) – the founder Ecclesiastical work Creation of the Cappella Bugeja Teacher Theatrical work Vincenzo Bugeja (1805-60) – the Cappella’s heir Studies in Naples Opera composer Metropolitan maestro The Cappella Bugeja Liturgical composer Riccardo Bugeja (1844-1926) and his uncle Filippo (1809-91) Riccardo refuses to follow his father as Metropolitan maestro Studies in Naples Filippo Bugeja as maestro interino Riccardo takes charge of the Cappella Final years Vincent (Ċensinu) Bugeja 1910-67 The war years An influential dynasty comes to an end APPENDIX: Cost of festa music in the past ADDENDA - Discography 12 Colourful trail-blazing dynasty The Nani Family Nani Dynasty Timelines

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Angelo Nani The beginning The Grand Master’s ‘virtuoso’ Family man Impresario Church musician Emanuele Nani (1769-1860) Youth Initial travels of a virtuoso Sojourn in Catania Twilight in Malta Paolo (1814-1904) and his son Antonio (1842-1929) Paolo Nani : the beginning : personality : early ecclesiastical commissions : theatre activity : ‘La mezza notte’ Antonio Nani: Paolo’s ultimate aspiration Paolo Nani’s music: operatic style and reception Antonio Nani : the Neapolitan years of creative maturity : ‘Messa da requiem’ and ‘Messa del Naufrago’ Paolo Nani: works Antonio Nani : period of indecision : the twilight years Paolo Nani: the funeral Paul Nani (1906-1986) A brilliant epoch comes to an end APPENDIX 1: Concert tours APPENDIX 2: Concert tours and Malta APPENDIX 3: The virtuoso in musical competitions APPENDIX 4: Antonio Nani’s ‘Messa da Requiem’: Concert performances ADDENDA - Discography

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13 Mendicant friar, traveller, teacher, and composer Giuseppe Spiteri Fremond Timeline Fame Early life and studies Traveller Monastic vocation Teacher and performer Composer Death APPENDIX: The Grand Mass, mass movements and Spiteri Fremond’s ‘modus operandi’ ADDENDA - Discography

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14 Achievements and unfulfilled dreams of a father Giuseppe Vella (1827-1912) and his three coadjutor sons Timeline Educational background Music teacher Metropolitan ‘maestro di cappella’ Retirement and death His coadjudicator sons APPENDIX: The piano in the Holy Week liturgy ADDENDA - Discography

479 480 482 484 488 492 495 497 501

15 In search of fame and fortune Francesco Schira (1809-1883) and other sundry travellers Timelines Giuseppe Malfiggiani Giuseppe E. Bonavia Emanuele Galea In Malta In Odessa In the Balkans and, lastly, in St. Petersburg Alessandro Curmi Studies and friendships in Naples Work in Naples and Malta Travels to Paris and London Resident composer for Covent Garden

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Return to Paris and then to Malta Curtain falls Francesco Schira Temperament Early years The ‘Milan’ phase The ‘Lisbon’ phase Early ‘London’ phase The short ‘Paris’ phase Permanent residency in London: fame as conductor : fame as teacher of singing Operas and other works Final chapter APPENDIX 1: Music for Christmas and the ‘pastorale’ APPENDIX 2: Alessandro Curmi and his ballet company in Covent Garden ADDENDA - Discography

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16 Gallic elegance or A fight for church and students Paolino Vassallo (1856-1923) 579 Timeline 580 Studies 582 Vassallo’s ‘Istituto di musica’ 587 The ‘Motu proprio’ confrontation 590 Three seminal concerts 592 ‘Amor fatale’ 602 Vassallo’s other operas 607 Innovator 614 Vassallo and Romanticism 616 620 APPENDIX 1: The 1889 Concert Programme Notes 627 APPENDIX 2: The fate of Bartoli’s ‘Simonetta’ 629 APPENDIX 3: A struggle for recognition 637 ADDENDA - Discography

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Part IV: The 20th Century

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17 Music in Twentieth Century Malta The century’s three socio-politically defining events Carmelo Pace Charles Camilleri Joseph Vella Operas and concerts Paul Nani’s involvement: the dawn of secular music in Malta Liturgical music : Domenico Anastasi : Giuseppe Camilleri : Giuseppe Caruana : Carlo Diacono : Giuseppe Farrugia Regional cappelle Post-‘Motu proprio’ developments Malta’s indigenous language and Maltese music The Maltese soundscape APPENDIX 1: The Maltese Language: an overview APPENDIX 2: ‘Maltese’ oratorios: an outline APPENDIX 3: Charles Camilleri: the formative early years ADDENDA - Discography

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18 Homage au maître Carmelo Pace (1906-1993) Timeline Character and personality Family, education, and musical studies Early influences and Paul Nani’s concerts Teacher of music Compositions The creative elements : Use of musical instruments : Diversity of Form, style, and range : Chamber music : Knowledge of folk rhythms and traditions Finale ADDENDA - Discography

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19 An appreciation Joseph Sammut (b. 1926) Conductor and Composer ADDENDA - Discography

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Bibliography 767 Glossary 777 Index 797

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Preface

LIFE IS OFTEN THE taking of footsteps, sometimes willingly, sometimes unwillingly, which lead one to destinations unforeseen and mysterious, possibly even unimagined. When I was a child, I knew I wanted to write when I became older, but the writing I dreamed of was purely creative – the writing of novels, short stories, and plays. I have done all these and have even published four books of my prize-winning Maltese plays. I have written only one novel, however, which is still gathering the futile dust of uncompleted aspirations, along with scores of short stories in both English and Maltese.

Just after my eighth birthday, my father decided that it would be in my interest to study music. Family discipline in Malta three-quarters of a century ago was much stronger than it is today, and when one’s father decided something for you when you were still a child, you obeyed without questioning. In my father’s case, there was an important reason why he wanted to introduce me to music, and it had to do with the way his own life evolved.

My father was born in the pastorally tranquil village of Qala in Gozo on 2 September 1905 to a very poor family that soon afterwards came to work in Malta, taking up residence in Ħamrun. When still young, he himself had to find some means to help support a numerous family. Although he had only a rudimentary schooling, he was nevertheless able to learn music, basically solfeggio and playing the flute, in one of the Ħamrun band clubs that offered free tuition to potential bandsmen. When he was fourteen years of age, a family friend advised his parents that there were xxi

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openings for boy soldier-musicians with the Royal Malta Artillery (RMA), an English regiment raised in Malta (at that time a British colony). Being a good musician, my father was accepted. The army now started to give him all that life up to then had not: a respectable regular job, good dependable wages, and the beneficial working conditions that all British regiments enjoyed. It turned him into a disciplined individual, able to hold his own in any company, and raised spectacularly his level of learning, particularly in English and mathematics. After some years in the musician ranks, he switched, on the advice of his colonel, to general services where he eventually became Regimental Sergeant Major (RSM), the highest rank available to non-commissioned officers, and was awarded a number of army honours and medals. He died on 20 February 1988, and, to the end of his life, remained, with reason, a staunch colonialist.

Music was consequently a vital factor in my father’s life. It was for this reason that he desired me to learn music, which, like him, I did in the Ħamrun band clubs; when I was asked to decide, after nine months of solfeggio, what instrument I wanted to learn, he advised me to go for the flute. Among my teachers were Joseph Abela Scolaro and Willie Attard, two extremely gifted and no-nonsense bandmasters. This first phase of my musical experience ended when, aged 11, I sat the highly-competitive grammar-school (the Lyceum) entrance examinations, which I passed – as also did my brother John, one year younger than I. However, just before the scholastic year was about to begin, I contacted undulant fever and I had to spend practically the whole of the first term in bed. After I recovered and was able to start the second term, my parents stopped my music, which I did not consider at all a great sacrifice, in order to give me the time to catch up with the other students in my class.

The second phase of musical education was in a totally different line.

Fr Joseph Cachia had just formed the Ħamrun Choir that used to meet in a small chapel attached to the Ħamrun Parish Church, and one day, as my brother John and myself were going to the Catholic Action Centre in Ħamrun, he sought us out and invited us to join his choir.

I was about 17 years of age at that time, and the music theory I had earlier learnt now came in very useful. Perhaps because I was now older, perhaps because the playing of a musical instrument was not in line with my natural proclivities, I started to experience a certain satisfaction in singing, which I had not previously experienced. One thing led to another, and eventually, for many decades, found myself my country’s leading bass soloist. I was invited to sing with the leading cappelle di musica of

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Malta and Gozo under the direction of the talented maestri who directed them. Because of this widespread activity, I became familiar with the best works of many enormously gifted Maltese composers of church music, both living and dead. In the field of band music, I annually interpreted a good number of inni di gloria connected with the annual festa of a locality, composed by the foremost bandmasters, past and present. In the field of concerts and operas, the number of engagements I had was enormous and covered the singing of both leading and minor parts, including those in the international repertoire. Most of this activity fortunately coincided with the post-Independence era when national interest in Malta’s musical heritage exploded, regrettably only temporarily, and often I was at the centre of excellent revival concerts that included significant works by Maltese composers from the Baroque to the modern eras.

I am writing this not for reasons of useless boastfulness or infantile self-aggrandizement – although I must admit to a certain degree of personal satisfaction – but rather because my multifaceted experiences as a classical and operatic bass singer provide my central qualification for writing on Maltese music. At the same time, and I must admit this from the very beginning, I have, on occasion, been somewhat prejudiced in my writings towards the composers whose works I have personally studied and interpreted, and which, as a consequence, led me to study their background and history and to explore more of their musical output.

Fortunately, however, these works were numerous and heterogeneous; their artistic validity was also endorsed by those prominent and knowledgeable conductors, often gifted composers in their own right, who chose to revive them. At the same time, I appreciate, perhaps more than anyone else, the many omissions from the book, but no book is perfect, and in the end the writer must decide what he wants to write about and how to go about it. No author can be wholly objective in what he writes but I have made my best to be as fair as possible. What I have written began from the standpoint of works that I had sung and liked, but this soon prompted me to delve into the lives of the composers themselves and then to explore their historical, social, and economic backgrounds and environments.

It is these three themes – background, lives, and works – that provide the book’s central methodology in its consideration of the designated composers. There may, no doubt, be readers who would insist that there are other composers who deserve a chapter to themselves, particularly some of those who lived in the twentieth century, and with such views I have no problem. Indeed, there were at least six twentieth century composers to

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whom I initially intended to devote separate chapters, but I encountered difficulties when it came to the ways and means of realising it. More than any events in previous centuries, the five musically delineating episodes of the twentieth – Pius X’s Motu proprio, the First and Second World Wars, Vatican Council II, and Malta’s Independence – defined, in many different but interrelated ways, the lives and oeuvre of composers active during that century, so much so that in the end I decided that it would be best to treat them collectively within the exposition of the social, economic, and musical vacillations of that very turbulent era. The only two who have been given additional separate treatment are the two musicians with whom I have had the closest and longest professional links – Carmelo Pace, my defining music teacher for many years, and Joseph Sammut, the conductor with whom I can be mostly identified as a lyrical singer.

A writer, especially of non-fiction, needs a lot of sustained help, particularly if he is writing in a field, such as that of Maltese music, which is still insufficiently researched and evaluated. There are persons who are happy to answer requests on various aspects about which he is writing. My thanks in this respect are thus due to Mgr John Azzopardi and Mario Gauci (Mdina Cathedral Music Archives), Ronald Azzopardi Caffari (Carmelo Pace Personal Archives), Professor H Bertil van Boer (Department of Music, Western Washington University), Dr Franco Bruni (L’École Française de Rome), Prof. Mario Buhagiar, Dr Simon Mercieca and Dr Sandro Spina (University of Malta), Mro Prof. Dion Buhagiar, Rev. Dominic Camilleri, Joseph G Debono, Dr Sandro Debono (National Museum of Fine Arts), National Archivist Charles J Farrugia and his staff (National Archives of Malta), Antoinette Fava (Camilleri Family Personal Archives), Rev. Mro John Galea, Mro Joseph Gatt, musicologist and writer Mro and Madame Gérard Gefen, Prof. Chris Grech (The Catholic University of America), Mro Francis Pace, Mro Tony Pace, Mro Joseph Sammut, Tony Sammut, Mro Ray Sciberras, and Mro Prof. Joseph Vella.

More information about most of these individuals can be found within different sections of the book, and I would also like to apologise for any inadvertent omissions.

I also wish to acknowledge the invaluable assistance (editorial and otherwise) of Joseph Mizzi of Mizzi Design & Graphic Services who was always ready to listen patiently and deal very professionally with my many requests during the book’s production. The present is the third book of mine which he has produced, and it has always been a pleasure to work with him.

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Then there are those persons who are willing and have the generous patience to study what a writer has actually written and give an objective opinion about it with recommendations on how it might be improved.

This writer has been gratefully lucky in having two such friends in Dr Gerard J Hyland and Professor Emanuel P Delia.

I was first introduced to Professor Hyland during one of the three open-air (St Paul’s Square, Mdina) performances of Aida in August 1988 as part of that year’s Maltafest (Malta International Arts Festival) when I was singing the role of the King of Egypt. Afterwards I met him again during the festa of St George celebrated annually in the basilica which bears his name in Victoria, Gozo. A theoretical physicist by profession and author of many admired research papers, he was at that time lecturing at the University of Warwick in the UK. He had come for a holiday in Gozo with his family, and having been informed by his hotel receptionist about the festa decided to take a look. He immediately warmed to the liturgical music that was being performed (composed mostly by Joseph Vella, the Basilica’s maestro di cappella, and Mgr Giuseppe Farrugia) and, during the panegyric, introduced himself to Mro Vella and asked whether he could join the choir. Actually, he was well qualified to do so, because, as I gradually learned over time, he is an extremely naturally gifted amateur musician (a real dilettante), plays the piano and organ, directs his own choir, and is perceptively able to edit music to get it in line with his own requirements. After that first introduction to Maltese music, he started on what, he told me, was a journey of discovery in Maltese music. His regular holidays in Malta now coincided with those festi whose music he wanted to experience. Additionally, he also sought to obtain copies of exemplars to enable him to rehearse and perform them with his choir in a number of Catholic churches in Warwickshire. One of the pieces he regularly performs during Christmas is his own organ edition of Emanuele Galea’s Sinfonia pastorale. Luckily for me when I started writing my book he had retired from academia, and generously accepted my request to critically read it. For many obvious reasons, I felt more comfortable in having my work assessed by an English speaker whose knowledge of Maltese music and its history is substantially greater than that of the majority of Maltese scholars. His contribution, however, went beyond just reading the text and making apposite and insightful suggestions. For example, it was he who recommended that each appropriate chapter should begin with a timeline of the composer under consideration, thereby making the main developments of his life easier for the reader to follow. I accepted this

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suggestion with the proviso that he himself would contribute them. All the timelines included, as well as the chronology of Maltese composers featured in the introductory pages of the book, are his excellent work, my contribution being occasional fine-tuning.

Professor Delia, who also comes from academia (the University of Malta), is the Chairman of APS Bank, and it was at his instigation that I came to write the book. Professor Delia’s illumined contribution to Maltese culture as part of his Bank’s social responsibility towards the Maltese nation is second to none, and his most legitimate and wideranging initiatives in the field of Maltese music, particularly his exemplary institution of the Bank’s unique annual flagship concerts, with the music performed being also recorded on CDs, led to a desire to find the ways and means to initiate the writing of a suitable book to complement his Bank’s initiatives and, at the same time, help spread knowledge of the Maltese musical heritage. His vision also included the novel idea of illustrating the book aurally through a three-CD compilation of appropriate tracks taken from the 70 or so works composed during three centuries of Maltese music that have already been recorded on the Bank’s sixteen (so far) CDs; these aural exemplars validly replace the more familiar printed musical extracts that are normally included in such volumes as illustrations. It was probably in consequence of my role as the Bank’s advisor to its series of flagship concerts and other musical initiatives that led Professor Delia to ask me to write the book, and for this I thank him sincerely, and I hope that the end product goes some way towards satisfying his envisaged expectations. In addition, however, I am also very grateful for his many suggestions and intuitions during its writing, which have been of great personal benefit, for his unfailing support during the very long time it has taken me to complete the book, and, not least, also for kindly consenting to write the foreword.

The book, which has turned out to be far longer than even the writer himself expected, is being published by APS Bank Ltd, and from this point of view special thanks must go not only again to Prof Delia as the Bank’s Chairman, but also to his Board of Directors, and his staff, particularly Patrick Aquilina, APS Bank Marketing Manager, and his team, particularly Jeremy Vassallo.

The APS Bank’s informed, well-thought-out and innovative sponsorship of Maltese music is at present the only sustained endeavour to facilitate the performance of works in the Maltese musical heritage.

Regrettably, the same cannot be said in the case of the public sector,

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which, despite its access to substantially greater financial and apposite administrative and performing resources than are available to a relatively small financial institution whose raison d’être is banking, has singularly failed to do anything substantial or creative to promote and showcase Malta’s inestimable patrimony, as is exemplified by the fact that the last Maltese opera to be performed at the Teatru Manoel was in 1999 when Carmelo Pace’s I Martiri was produced on 9 March as part of the first Manoel Theatre Opera Festival. This seems to me highly lamentable and reprehensible, particularly given Malta’s standing within the EU, with its emphasis on cultural diversity as a reflection of the achievements and aspirations of the individual nations that comprise it.

Although colonial times have now long passed, a lingering innate colonialist feeling that Maltese artistic achievements are somehow secondgrade still seems to infest the reasoning of certain people who should surely know better. Sadly, this applies even in the case of fields in which they and their nation can justly take great pride, such as music, as this book amply demonstrates. For how else can one justify the adage often banded about that Maltese concert and opera goers are not interested in Maltese composers but only in Beethoven, Mozart, Verdi and Puccini? Surely such conclusions are not only an insult to the very knowledgeable Maltese theatre-goer, but also reflect adversely on the individuals responsible.

This book has taken me three years to research and write, and it is not my desire that it should serve as final threnody on Maltese composers and their works.

Joseph Vella Bondin 31 December 2015

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Background Information

1. The book has been written for a general readership, with the additional aim of filling the need of a book on Maltese music written in the English language, which the author, after the publication of his two Maltese books: Il-Mużika ta’ Malta sa l-Aħħar tas-Seklu Tmintax and Il-Mużika ta’ Malta fis-Sekli Dsatax u Għoxrin (PIN, Malta, 2000), was given to understand existed, by both foreign and local publishers and scholars. As far as possible, use of technical analysis has been avoided, except where it was essential in the interest of affording a holistic portrait of a composer and his technical prowess. To assist those readers who may need help in these fields, a glossary has been provided. The many appendices are intended to amplify the text on matters whose more detailed consideration within the pertinent chapter would have been to the detriment of the free-flow and continuity of the main exposition. They also deal with certain topics on ancillary aspects of Maltese music – such as the rite of Tenebrae; the mechanics of a benefit concert; the use of the piano in the Holy Week liturgy; the Camera degli Autori e Compositori di Musica Maltesi – on which little research has so far been available.

2. The author’s aim has been to organise the book in a way that makes clear the line of development in Maltese music from its earliest manifestation as plainchant in its medieval cathedral in the old capital of Mdina to its postIndependence manifestations in the second half of the twentieth century.

The accent is, of course, on those composers who have contributed most significantly to this progress, for it is the composers themselves who are xxix

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the fulcrum of any historical development. Throughout, an attempt has been made to humanize the composers as much as possible by giving an awareness of what they felt and experienced, for surely a man’s music is a reflection of himself, as conditioned by the era and events in which he was living. Three types of chapters make up the book: most of the composers get a chapter to themselves; a number of other composers whose contributions are better understood in relation to others are grouped together; finally, there are four chapters devoted to entirely different periods, which offer general material on the prevailing religious-socio-economic conditions to which the composers were subject. As is the normal consuetude for books on similar themes, an attempt has been made, hopefully successfully, to render each chapter as self-contained as possible so that it can be read and understood without undue reliance on other chapters. As a consequence, the text may at times suffer from apparent repetitions of material; this is a difficulty the author has had to face, particularly given that his subject matter involves musicians living, for most of their lives, in one country, and a country that is among the smallest in Europe where the life of one composer inevitably impinges on the lives of others, and where economic, religious or social developments affect the lives of all its citizens.

3. The present book is a work of scholarship, and as such owes much to the scholarship and research of earlier writers, including journalists, and the author (who has made use of both primary and secondary sources) gladly acknowledges the debt he owes them. The purposely numerous quotations from their writings constitute valuable contemporary voices that supplement the writer’s present-day perspective. They are especially valuable in the analysis of works, particularly operas, that have never been revived after their initial performances, and the relevant sources are accredited mainly in the footnotes. The author must also acknowledge his use of the fantastic resources now available on the World Wide Web (www); indeed the work of the researcher is getting progressively easier as these resources continue to be expanded and refined, and made instantly available in one’s own home at a click of the computer mouse.

4. The quotations come from publications written in different languages – mainly Maltese, English, Italian, French, and German. Where the source is in English, the original text has been reproduced, whilst quotations from other sources have been translated into English, and the author has made every effort to give a translated version as close as possible to the original.

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5. Apart from the frontispiece reproducing Antoine de Favray’s magnificent Interior View of the Church of St John of Jerusalem now in the St Petersburg Hermitage, artwork has been restricted to composers’ portraits. Where none is included, it is mostly because none have been traced. The originals exhibit a wide range of technical merit and most of them are in monochrome. In the circumstances, a decision was taken to reproduce them all in black-and-white, a method also adopted by the Second Edition of The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians. Where needed, attempts were made to improve quality and apologies are offered where this was not sufficiently achieved. Unless otherwise acknowledged, images are from the author’s personal collection. A word on the Duca portraits might be of interest. Ġuże Duca (1871-1948), was born in Qormi, was a teacher of design, and a practicing artist who excelled in portraiture.

His other life-long interest was music, and he possessed a good, warmly resonant baritone voice that attracted the attention of maestri di cappella then active and with whom he regularly sang. At one stage of his artistic career, he decided to merge these two abiding interests to produce a series of eight portraits of maestri and composers, which are now the property of the Count Roger Band Club, Rabat, to whom thanks are due for its kind permission the reproduce the seven included in the book. The majority of them (Emanuele Bartoli, Carlo Fiamingo, Paolo and Antonio Nani, Paolino Vassallo, Giuseppe Vella) are all maestri that he knew personally and worked with, the two exceptions being Vincenzo Bugeja who died in 1860 and Giuseppe Spiteri Fremond who died in 1878 when Duca was only seven years old. Photographs of the portraits were taken by Joseph Borg.

6. Addenda to apposite chapters give details about available CDs of works by composers featured therein. It is in three sections: Section A lists those compositions included in APS Bank CDs; Section B itemizes those tracks from these works selected for inclusion in the three-CD compilation, the aim of which is to provide pertinent aural illustrations of composers discussed, and which therefore should be considered as forming a basic element of the book itself; Section C provides information about selected non-APS Bank CDs that again illustrate the oeuvre of composers discussed, and which might similarly be of interest to a reader. It has always been the policy of the APS Bank not to record works for which good alternative recordings are already available, in order to be able to put on the market hitherto unrecorded works, thereby maximising the number of different

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works from the Maltese musical heritage, which can be enjoyed and appreciated by the public, not least the house-bound.

7. The availability of the CD compilations is enabling the Bank to market the material in three forms: in the case of readers who might already possess the full set of the Bank’s CDs, or who are already familiar with the works of the composers, the book can be purchased on its own; for those who desire to have both the book and the compilations, a special boxed edition will be offered; finally, the three-set CD compilation can also be bought on its own.

8. Orthographical problems seem to be endemic to books on music, and every attempt has been made to be as consistent as possible throughout; if there are any inconsistencies that have ‘slipped through the net’ the author offers his apologies.

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Abbreviations

A alto/contralto AAF Archiepiscopal Archives Floriana Act. Rev. Cap. Acta Reverendissimi Capituli ACM Archives of the Cathedral of Malta ACM, Mus. Ms. Music manuscript [normally followed by a

number] conserved in ACM AO Acta Originalia AOM Archives of the Order of Malta [Archives of the

Hospitaller Order of St John preserved in the

National Library of Malta] Arch.

Archive [normally followed by a number to

indicate a specific manuscript preserved in

AOM or in another stated archive] B bass b. born Bar baritone bc basso continuo c. circa CEM Curia Episcopalis Melitensis ch.

Chapter cor. corno [French horn] doc(s). document(s) ed. editor/edited by e.g. exempli gratia [for example] xxxiii

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f(f ). folio(s) ibid. ibidem [in the same book, chapter, journal, magazine, etc.] i.e. id est [that is to say] inf. infra [further on, below, as, for example, vide infra, see below] Libr.

Library [normally followed by a number to

indicate a specific manuscript, pamphlet or

other printed material archived in the National

Library of Malta loc.cit. loco citato [in the passage already quoted] MS mezzo soprano Misc. miscellanea Min. Cap. Minute Capitulare Mgr Monsignor Ms. Manuscript NLM National Library of Malta no(s) number(s) ob. oboe op. opus [normally followed by a number to

indicate a composer’s particular work] op. cit. opere citato [in the work quoted] OPAC online public access catalogue [this refers to an

internet database of resources held by a library] para. paragraph p(p). page(s) Proc. Crim.

Processi Criminali q.v.

quod vide [used to indicate material already

mentioned in text] r. recto [this refers to the right leaf of a folio manuscript] Reg. registrum Reg. Del. Cap. Registrum Deliberationum Capitularium RISM Répertoire International des Sources Musicales S soprano SBN Servizio Bibliotecario Nazionale [thus OPAC

SBN refers to the online catalogue of Italian libraries] s.v. sub voce [under the name/word of – refers mainly

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to entries in dictionaries] T tenor trans. translated v. verso [this refers to the left leaf of a folio manuscript] vl. violin vol. volume

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Chronology of principal Maltese composers

Chronology of principal Maltese Composers featured in the text (includes, in bold, some defining dates) 1530:

The religious military Order of St John of Jerusalem arrives in Malta (26 October) and adopts as its convent Fort St Angelo (castrum maris) and its suburb Birgu.

1530: Michele Zahra born 1545-63: Council of Trent meets and formulates the ideals of the Counter-Revolution 1571: The Order of St John moves to the newly-built fortress city of Valletta which now becomes its convent with the sumptuous Church of St John its conventual church (consecrated 20 February 1578) c.1610: 1616: 1632: 1646: c.1665: 1693: 1696:

Aloysio Mataron born Giuseppe Balzano born Domenico Balzano born Michele Zahra dies Aloysio Mataron dies Earthquake (11 January) destroys Mdina’s medieval Cathedral Pietro Gristi born

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1702:

Mdina’s new Baroque Cathedral is consecrated (8 February) by Bishop David Cocco-Palmeri 1704: Filippo Pizzuto born 1707: Giuseppe Arena born; Domenico Balzano dies 1710: Michel’Angelo Vella born 1712: Giovanni Pace born 1715: Girolamo Abos born 1725: Pietro Paolo Pullicino born 1726: Benigno Zerafa born 1732: Teatro Pubblico (Teatru Manoel) opens (19 January).

1738: Pietro Gristi dies Post-1747: Filippo Pizzuto dies (probably abroad) 1748: Francesco Azopardi born 1751: Angelo Nani born (in the Republic of Venice) 1760: Girolamo Abos dies (in Naples) 1762: Salvatore Magrin born 1766: Angelo Nani arrives in Malta 1769: Emanuele Nani (son of Angelo) born 1772: Pietro Paolo Bugeja and Giuseppe Burlon born 1773: Nicolò Isouard born 1784: Giovanni Pace dies; Giuseppe Arena dies (in Naples) 1786: Pietro Paolo Pullicino dies 1790: Emanuele Galea born 1792: Michel’Angelo Vella dies 1798: The Order of St John is expelled (12 June) from Malta by the French; St John’s provisionally created co-Cathedral (30 August; title confirmed ad beneplacitum Sanctae Sedis on 27 January 1816)

1800: 1801: 1804: 1805: 1808: 1809:

Maltese rebel against the French and, with the help of the British, the French garrison is forced to surrender (4 September). 164 years of British rule begins Alessandro Curmi and Cesare Vassallo born Giuseppe Spiteri Fremond born; Benigno Zerafa dies Vincenzo Bugeja (son of Pietro Paolo) born Domenico Amore and Filippo Bugeja (son of Pietro Paolo) born Francesco Schira and Giuseppe Scicluna born; Francesco Azopardi dies

1814: 1818: 1827: 1828: 1831: 1837: 1842: 1844: 1848: 1850: 1852: 1856: 1857: 1858: 1859: 1860: 1866: 1868: 1873: 1875: 1876: 1878: 1880: 1882: 1883: 1886: 1887: 1890: 1891: 1893: 1894: 1896: 1897: 1901: 1903:

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Paolo Nani (nephew of Angelo Nani) born Nicolò Isouard dies (in Paris) Giuseppe Vella born Giuseppe Malfiggiani born; Pietro Paolo Bugeja dies Giuseppe Bonavia born Francesco Decesare and Luigi Fenech born Antonio Nani (son of Paolo) born Riccardo Bugeja (son of Vincenzo) born; Angelo Nani dies Salvatore Margin dies Emanuele Galea dies Emanuele Bartoli and Giuseppe Farrugia born Paolino Vassallo born; Giuseppe Burlon dies Alessandro Curmi dies Vittorio Scerri born Ferdinando Camilleri born Vincenzo Bugeja and Emanuele Nani die The Royal Opera House (Theatre Royal / Teatru Rjal) is inaugurated (9 October) with a splendid performance of Bellini’s I Puritani. Alberto Vella (son of Giuseppe) born Luigi Vella (son of Giuseppe) born Paolo Vella (son of Giuseppe) and Pietro Paulo Galea born Giuseppe Magri born Carlo Diacono born Giuseppe Scicluna and Giuseppe Spiteri Fremond die Giuseppe Caruana born Cesare Vassallo dies Francesco Schira dies (in London) Giuseppe Abdilla and Domenico Anastasi born Lorenzo Gonzi born Vincenzo Ciappara born Filippo Bugeja dies Lorenzo Galea born; Giuseppe Malfiggiani dies Domenico Amore dies Emanuele Caruana and Josie Mallia Pulverenti born Giuseppe Bonavia dies Emanuele Scerri, son of Vittorio, born Motu Proprio issued by Pope St Pius X; Giuseppe (son of Ferdinando) Camilleri born

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Paolo Nani dies Carmelo Scerri (son of Vittorio) born; Francesco Decesare and Luigi Fenech die 1906: Paul Nani (son of Antonio) and Carmelo Pace born 1910: Vincent (Ċensinu) Bugeja (son of Riccardo) born 1912: Giuseppe Vella dies 1914-18: First World War leads to increased prosperity in Malta 1917: Joseph Fenech (grandson of Vittorio Scerri) born 1919: Alberto Borg born 1923: Paolino Vassallo dies 1925: Giuseppe Farrugia dies 1926: Joseph Sammut born; Riccardo Bugeja dies 1929: Martin Portelli born; Antonio Nani dies 1930: Pietro Paolo Galea dies 1931: Charles Camilleri born; Giuseppe Caruana and Alberto Vella die 1933: Lawrence Mifsud born; Emanuele Bartoli dies 1934: Lorenzo Gonzi dies 1937: John Galea (Rev.) born 1938: Domenico Anastasi dies 1939-45: Second World War ushers a period of great hardship for Maltese society 1942: The Teatru Rjal is devastated (7 April) by Luftwaffe bombers, never to be rebuilt. Joseph Vella born; Ferdinando Camilleri, Carlo Diacono and Vittorio Scerri die 1944: Dion Buhagiar born; Giuseppe Abdilla dies 1947: Giuseppe Magri dies 1948: Anton Briffa born; Paolo Vella dies 1950: Joseph Gatt born; Luigi Vella dies 1953: Tony Pace born 1957: The Teatru Manoel is reacquired by the Maltese Government, rehabilitated as the country’s National Theatre, and reopens (27 December 1960) with a glittering performance of Delibes’ Coppelia by the Ballet Rambert.

1958: Albert Pace born 1960: John Galea born 1961: Emanuele Caruana dies 1962-65: Second Vatican Council is convened 1962: Ray Sciberras born

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1967: 1970: 1973: 1974: 1976: 1977: 1979: 1981: 1982: 1984: 1986: 1993:

Malta gains (21 September) political independence from Britain; Josie Mallia Pulverenti dies ÄŠensinu Bugeja dies Lorenzo Galea dies Paul Portelli born Hermann Farrugia Frantz born Giuseppe Camilleri dies Christopher Muscat born Vincenzo Ciappara dies Carmelo Scerri dies Emanuele Scerri dies Steven-Joseph Psaila born Paul Nani dies Carmelo Pace dies

2009: 2010: 2012:

Charles Camilleri dies Joseph Fenech dies Alberto Borg dies

INDEX 797

Index

This Index includes proper names, names of works and those of significant institutions.

Names of works appear as they are shown in the original printed work or in the manuscript.

The Contents of the book (pages xi-xx) should be considered as an integral part of this Index.

A che forse (Francesco Schira), 550 A conquista de Malaca pelos Portuguezes, ballet (Francesco Schira), 549 A Musical Legacy (Anna Borg Cardona) 23 A Sea Symphony (Ralph Vaughan Williams), 751 Abbastanza fin’ora le tue pompe (Girolamo Abos), 136 Abbot, Water M., 5, 58 Abdilla, Giuseppe, 348, 349, 350, 590, 668, 676 Abela Scolaro, Carmelo, 289, 754 Abela Scolaro, Joseph, 644 Abos, Gioanne, 124, 125 Abos, Girolamo, 46, 89, 90, 123, 124, 125, 126, 127, 132, 133, 134, 135, 136, 137, 138, 140, 141, 143, 145, 149, 155, 158, 176, 194, 215, 285, 659 - maestro of the Cathedral of Naples, 138 - operas, 130 Abraham, Gerald, 316, 696 Acadèmie des Beaux-Arts, 231 Académie Royale de Musique, 231, 532 Accademia di San Luca in Rome, 468 Accademia Filarmonica di Bologna, 457, 470 Accademie Poetico-Musicali, 449

Accenti, Lupi, 393, 530 Achille in Sciro (Giuseppe Arena), 86, 93 Ad gloriam, overture (Paolino Vassallo), 596, 615 Adaberto, Ester, 604 Adelaide, Queen Dowager, of SaxeMeiningen, 277, 538 Adelia (Gaetano Donizetti), 391 Adelina (Pietro Generali), 318 Adriano in Siria (Girolamo Abos), 132 Adrien, Martin, 187 Adstiterunt (Giuseppe Vella), 500 Aestimatus sum (Giuseppe W. Malfiggiani), 515 Agius Muscat, Hugo, 165, 521 Agius, Antonio, 289 Agnese Gonzaga (Antonio Nani), 426, 427, 428 Agnese Visconti (Antonio Nani), 284, 411, 427, 428, 429, 609 Agnus Dei a tre voci scritto per le alunne della Scuola Secondaria (Giuseppe Vella), 486 Aida (Giuseppe Verdi), 262, 278, 517, 663 Aladin (Nicolò Isouard), 231 Alasia, Tina, 608 Albani, Emma, 281, 282 Alberghi, Rosa, 444

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Alberti, Achille, 281 Alberti, Domenico, 57 Alessandro in Persia (Giuseppe Arena), 86 Alexander, 8 Alfieri, Pietro, 297 Allegra, Salvatore, 761 Allegri, Gregorio, 64, 297 Alpheran de Bussan, Paolo, bishop, 82, 104, 108, 158, 160, 161, 166, 168, 169 Alpheran, Melchior, fra, prior, 78, 82, 87, 96 Alter Christus (Carmelo Pace), 730 Amahl and the Night Visitors (Gian Carlo Menotti), 648 Amavit eum Dominus (Paolo Nani), 433 Amendola, Giuseppe, 211 Amicus meus (Joseph Fenech), 681 Amor fatale (Paolino Vassallo), 284, 594, 603, 604, 606 Amore, Domenico, 278, 324, 330, 390, 391, 514, 528, 530, 583, 685 Amore, Luigi, 324, 330 Amore, Salvatore, 324, 325 Anastasi, Domenico, 590, 667 Anceschi, Aristide, 672 Andante da Concerto (Paolino Vassallo), 615 Andante e scherzo (Paolino Vassallo), 594 Andante for strings (Paolino Vassallo), 617 Andante per quartetto d’archi [1963] (Paul Nani), 442 Anderson, Andrea, 275 Andromaca (Giovanni Paisiello), 318 Anerio, Felice, 65, 68 Anfossi, Pasquale, 447 Anfossi, Vincenzo, 211, 213, 215, 379 Angelica (Carmelo Pace), 643, 731, 739 Animan meam delectam (Giuseppe W. Malfiggiani), 515 Aniti Ongarini, Paolo, 460 Anna Bolena (Gaetano Donizetti), 386, 546, 553 Aprile, Giuseppe, 129 APS Bank CDs, 68-73 APS Bank Flagship Concert, 677 APS Bank, 764 Aquae multae (Paolo Nani), 421 Arcaro, Pasquale, 66 Archives Nationales de France, 584 Arciconfraternità della Beata Vergine della Carità, 422 Arditi, Luigi, 560, 562

Arena, Giuseppe, 46, 86, 88, 90, 91, 94, 107, 123, 149, 155, 176, 215, 285 - family, 95-97 - operas, 92-93 Arena, Matteo, 87, 123 Arianna e Teseo (Girolamo Abos), 131, 132 Aristodemo (Alessandro Curmi), 527 Armida placata, pasticcio, 133 Arnaud, Paul, 739 Artaserse (Girolamo Abos), 131, 132 Artaserse (Giuseppe Arena), 93 Arteserse, re di Persia (Nicolò Isouard), 206, 212, 213, 214, 225 Asciak, Paul, 756 Askesis (Joseph Vella), 694 Athos, Sante, 428 Attard, Carmen, 407 Attard, Giuseppe, 325 Auber, Daniel, 276, 280, 532, 553, 583 Aurelio in Palmira (Gioachino Rossini), 381 Austin, John, 242 Austin, Sarah, 242 Ave Maria (Antonio Nani), 343, 408 Ave Maria (Emanuele Caruana), 687 Ave Maria (Giuseppe Arena), 94 Ave Maria (Joseph Fenech), 681 Ave Maria (Paolino Vassallo), 596, 598, 601, 602 Ave Maria (Salvatore Allegra), 761 Ave Maria [1938] (Paul Nani), 442 Ave maris stella (Emanuele Nani), 382 Ave maris stella (Pietro Paolo Bugeja), 267 Ave Regina caelorum (Paolo Nani), 251 Avossa, Giuseppe, 124 Azopardi, Francesco, 47, 50, 53, 58, 59, 65, 112, 113, 155, 156, 158, 165, 170, 171, 172, 173, 175, 176, 177, 178, 179, 180, 181, 183, 185, 187, 188, 189, 190, 197, 199, 210, 213, 215, 243, 246, 309, 317, 318, 321, 323, 457, 461, 474, 485, 500 Azzopardi, Edward, 658 Azzopardi, Evaristo, 658 Azzopardi, John (Ġwann), mgr, 8, 15, 35, 37, 156, 161, 185, 206, 208, 229, 231, 255, 362, 382, 442 Azzopardi, Mario, 692, 694 Bacci, Egidio, 601 Bacio Morte [1930] (Paul Nani), 442 Baderna, Marietta, 536

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Badger, George Percy, 25, 35, 364 Baldanza, Ernesto, 281 Balfe, Michael William, 553 Ball, Alexander, sir, 189 Ballata romantica (Josie Mallia Pulvirenti), 616 Balzano, Domenico, 14, 35, 37 Balzano, Giovanni Battista, 35 Balzano, Giuseppe, 15, 36, 37, 38, 105 Bambina mia (Antonio Nani), 292 Band of the Second Battalion of the Eighth (King’s) Regiment, 512 Barbacini, Enrico, 281 Barbara, Giuseppe, 66 Barbaro di San Giorgio, Ramiro, 672 Barbati, Aniello, 407, 424, 462 Barbera, Luigi, 263, 488 Barbieri, Fedora, 691 Barker, John, 36 Barry, Edward, 278 Bartók, Béla, 727 Bartoli, Emanuele, 263, 287, 289, 467, 627 Bas, Giulio, 616 Basili, Giuseppe, 297, 544 Basso, Andrea, 103 Bayard à Mézières (Isouard with others), 230 Bazzini, Antonio, 515, 516 Beale, Frederick, 533 Beata Mater (Paolo Nani), 423 Beata Mater (Vincenzo Bugeja), 332 Beate Juliane (Paolo Nani), 433 Beati omnes (Francesco Azopardi), 180 Beatrice di Tenda (Vincenzo Bellini), 403, 546 Beatus vir (Benigno Zerafa), 193 Beatus vir qui inventus est (Giuseppe Balzano), 36, 38 Beethoven, Ludwig, van, 225, 392, 727, 754 Bellagio (Giuseppe Camilleri), 670 Belle Époque, 583 Bellincioni, Gemma, 281 Bellini, Vincenzo, 276, 278, 280, 296, 313, 323, 403, 521, 525, 526, 533, 535, 546, 547, 550, 553, 554, 663 Bellizzi, Francesco, 665, 731, 749 Benedict XIV, pope, 259, 311, 497 Benedictus Dominus (Girolamo Abos), 139 Benini, Ortensio, 14 Béniowksi, ou Les exiles du Kamtcharka (François-Adrien Boieldieu), 229

Bensaude, Maurizio, 281 Beregon, Nicolò, 21 Berlioz, Hector, 726 Bernardette (Carmelo Pace), 740 Berthault, Claudine, 206, 228 Bertini, Giuseppe, 376, 377, 378, 379 Bertocchi, Argimiro, 564 Berton, Henri-Montan, 226, 232 Bezzina, Alessandro, don, 165 Bianca e Gernando (Vincenzo Bellini), 526, 527 Bianchini-Cappelli, Elena, 276 Bibliotheca (Valletta), 598, 732 Bigelow, Andrew, 224, 241 Biliotti, Inez, 517 Bingley, Emma, 276 Bini, Davide, 484 Biographie universelle des musiciens (François-Joseph Fétis), 86, 124, 155, 210, 225, 230 Biographisch-bibliographisches Quellen-Lexikon der Musiker und Musikgelehrten (Robert Eitner), 86 Biretta, Domenico Antoinio, 103 Bisazza, Bice, 690, 758 Bisazza, Juliette, 736 Bizet, Georges, 225, 279, 280, 660, 661 Blaquiere, Edward, 23, 49, 52 Blasis, Carlo, 534, 535 Bliss, Arthur, sir, 690, 738 Boer, Bertil, von, 53 Boieldieu, François-Adrien, 226, 229, 230, 231 Boissevain, Jeremy, 285 Boito, Arrigo, 280, 567 Bolero (Carmelo Pace), 740 Bonaparte, Napoleon, 187, 208 Bonavia, Giuseppe E., 112, 515, 284, 348, 518 Bonham-Carter, Charles, sir, 660 Bonini, Francesco, 604 Bonnici, Alexander, 207 Bonnici, Antonio (impresario), 543 Borg Cardona, Anna, 23 Borg, Albert, 595 Borg, Carlo, fra, 87, 92 Borg, Michel’Ang, 324, 594, 603, 605, 685 Borg, Vincent, mgr, 17, 21, 52, 109 Borghi-Mamo, Adelaide, 276 Boris Godunow (Modest Mussorgsky), 660 Borne, Alfonso Maria, don, 492 Boróni, Antonio, 129

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Bottigliero, Philippus, don, 159 Bouilly, Jean-Nicolas, 226 Bovi, Arturo, 604 Boyer, Kevin, 650 Braga, Gaetano, 296 Braudel, Fernand, 11 Breviario, Giovanni, 613 Briffa, Rużar, 684, 692 British Council, 664, 735, 739, 754, 756 British Institute, 665, 680 Britten, Benjamin, 727 Broschi, Carlo (Farinelli), 135, 378 Bruckner, Anton, 60 Brunetti, Antonio, 129 Brunetti, Giovan Gualberto, 129 Bruni, Franco, 13, 38, 162, 163, 167, 169, 179, 182, 189, 246, 252, 255, 327, 328, 362, 382, 399, 433, 442, 481, 492, 493, 494, 495, 499 Bruschi, Domenico, 468 Btajjel (Carmelo Pace), 692 Buenos, Lucas, bishop, 124 Bugeja family of musicians, 667, 749 Bugeja, Filippo, 317, 336, 339, 340, 341, 342, 343 Bugeja, Pietro Paolo, 66, 185, 188, 243, 246, 251, 252, 254, 257, 258, 307, 308, 310, 311, 312, 314, 315, 316, 318, 320, 324, 327, 330, 334, 336, 339, 354, 388, 409, 418, 474, 490, 519, 526, 754 Bugeja, Riccardo, 254, 261, 266, 268, 270, 271, 331, 333, 335, 336, 341, 343, 344, 345, 346, 347, 349, 397, 428, 432, 476, 489 Bugeja, Vincent (Ċensinu), 345, 349, 350, 351, 352, 660, 683, 758 Bugeja, Vincenzo, 200, 247, 249, 254, 257, 258, 272, 283, 312, 316, 317, 322, 323, 329, 330, 331, 333, 334, 335, 336, 339, 344, 354, 374, 388, 390, 457, 528, 616 Buhagiar, Dion, 187, 609, 683 Buhagiar, Rita, 758 Bunn, Alfred, 554, 555 Bunn, Julius, 554 Buono, Luciano, 165, 521 Burlon, Giuseppe, 109, 111, 112, 185, 265, 385, 388, 396, 400, 401, 460, 461, 468, 485, 511, 515 Burney, Charles, 132, 133, 174, 243, 362 Buttigieg, Anton, 692, 694 Buttigieg, Lydia, 727 Buttigieg, Maryanne, 487, 491, 497

Byrd, William, 655 Byron, lord, 541 Cachia, Horatio, 739 Cachia, Joseph, 683 Cachia, Watty, 688 Caeremoniale episcoporum, 61, 497, 498 Cafaro, Pasquale, 103 Caffarelli (Gaetano Majorano), 135 Caffari, Georgette, 688, 735, 736, 741, 744 Caggi, Alfonso, 158 Cagliares, Baldassere, fra, 13, 34 Cajacciello disertore (Gioseffo Catrufo), 49 Caldara, Antonio, 135 Calendimaggio settecentesco (Vincenzo Laurenza), 48 Calendimaggio, 47, 58, 83, 84, 105, 107, 309, 443 Calì, Giuseppe, 278 Callegari, Giordano, 613 Calleja, Abele, 441, 658 Calliope (Carmelo Pace), 741 Camilla (Valentino Fioravanti), 543 Camilleri family of musicians, 307 Camilleri, Agostino, 590, 659 Camilleri, Carmelo, 513, 514, 685 Camilleri, Charles, 644, 646, 647, 649, 650, 662, 684, 695, 697, 698 Camilleri, Ferdinando, 251, 273, 289, 439, 440, 466, 668, 730 Camilleri, Frans, dun, 692 Camilleri, Gavino, 289 Camilleri, Giuseppe, 273, 289, 466, 660, 667, 668, 758 Camilleri, Joseph John, 694 Campochiaro, Antoinio, don, 14, 15 Cantata per Maggio (Michel’Angelo Vella), 107 Cantico d’Isaiah profeta (Nicola Zingarelli), 526, 533 Cantico delle creature (Joseph Vella), 654 Cantique à la Vierge Marie (Nicolette Isouard), 229 Cantoni, Luigi, 661, 663 Canzone appasionata (Emanuele Caruana), 687 Capocci, Filippo, 273 Capocci, Gaetano, 519 Cappelle, battle of the, 260, 265, 388, 429, 458, 490, 642 Capranica, Matteo, 48, 108 Capriccio for string quartet (Carmelo

INDEX 801

Pace), 735 Capriccio Italiano (Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky), 755 Capriccio per cembalo (Francesco Azopardi), 195 Carabott, Luigi, 289, 488 Carabott, Paolo, 658 Carabott, Ruggiero, 399, 488 Carabott, Vincenzo, 289, 398, 488 Carafa, Gregorio, grand master, 126 Carbonaro, Rinaldo, 488 Carbone, Gaetano, 564 Carbone, Giuseppe, sir, 437 Care rimembranze (Joseph Fenech), 681 Carli, Giuseppe, 330, 530 Carlo Felice di Savoia, king of Sardenia, 545 Carlo Fioras (Ferdinand Fränzl), 446 Carmen (Georges Bizet), 225, 280, 660, 661, 663, 762 Carmen Saeculare (Horace), 26 Carmichael, Hoegy, 645 Carminati, Lorenzo, 363, 367 Carminie, canzone (Antonio Nani), 292, 411 Carnili, Erasmo, 342, 627 Caro, Agostino, 673 Carovana, Gio Battista, 206, 207 Carpegna, Giulio, mgr, inquisitor, 206 Carrione, Alessandro, 277 Caruana dei Conti Gatto, Vincenzo, 254, 422, 467, 489, 515, 519, 522, 525, 586, 592, 609 Caruana Dingli, Francesco, 91, 126 Caruana, Emanuele, 686 Caruana, Giuseppe, 273, 439, 440, 466, 590, 591, 686, 689, 730 Caruana, Mabbli, 687 Caruana, Vincenzo, 489 Casaccia, Filippo (Casaciello), 276 Casaciello perseguitato da un mago (Nicolò Isouard), 49, 211 Casapinta, Giuseppe, 730 Casati, Giovanni, 534, 535 Casimiri, Raffaele, 350, 667 Cassar Pullicino, Ġużè, 697 Cassar, Carmel, 260 Cassola, Albert M., 689, 690, 735 Castagna, Pietro Paolo, 101, 252, 313, 519, 520, 525 Castrum Maris, 446 Catel, Charles-Simon, 230

Caterina Desguanez (Carmelo Pace), 643, 730, 739, 761 Caterina Howard (Giuseppe Lillo), 391 Catrufo, Gioseffo, 49, 276 Cauchi, Nikol, bishop, 762, 763 Cavalleria Rusticana (Pietro Mascagni), 279, 612, 661 Cecilian Movement, 251, 253, 297, 599 Cendrillon (Nicolò Isouard), 227, 228, 229 Cenni storici sulla vita del maestro di cappella Vincenzo Bugeja Maltese (Anon.), 321 Cesi, Beniamino, 338 Chanson d’un berger (Carmelo Pace), 740 Chapelle, Alessandro, judge baron, 437 Charles V, Emperor of the Spanish and Holy Roman Empire, 8, 564 Charles VII, King of the Two Sicilies, 135 Charpentier, Marc-Antoine, 670 Chazol, Giorgio, 285 Cherubini, Luigi, 186, 187, 226, 230, 232, 233 Chetcuti, Ġużè, 692 Chi non risica rosica (Pietro Generali), 543 Chircop, Natasha, 38 Chopin, Fryderyk, 233 Choron, 187 Chorus Melitensis, 451, 690, 748, 758 Christus factus est (Francesco Azopardi), 66 Christus factus est (Giuseppe Arena), 94 Christus factus est (Michel’Angelo Vella), 115 Christus factus est (Paolino Vassallo), 68, 618 Ciantar, Giannantonio, 56, 83, 108 Ciantar, Peter Paul, 689 Ciappara, Salvatore, 52 Ciappara, Vincenzo, 111, 289, 451, 590, 658, 727, 728, 730, 744, 754 Cicero, Marcus Tullius, 28 Cicotti, Romolo, 601 Cilia, Lydia, 758 Cimarosa, Domenico, 129, 276, 318, 533, 761 Cirillo, Mario, 660, 758 Ciro riconosciuto (Giuseppe Arena), 93 Clara, Giuseppe, 517 Clarke, Petula, 681 Clement VII, pope, 564 Clement VIII, pope, 497 Clement XIII, pope, 108

802

THE GREAT MALTESE COMPOSERS

Clementi, Muzio, 449 Cocco-Palmieri, David, bishop, 37 Coleiro, Charles, 692 Coleridge-Taylor, Samuel, 736, 755 Coletti, Filippo, 550 Colombati, Virginia, 281 Componimento per musica da cantarsi nel Sedile del Nilo (Girolamo Abos), 134 Compostella (Charles Camilleri), 649, 662 Con amore non si scherzo (Giuseppe Mosca), 543 Concertante (Joseph Vella), 652 Concerto for Piano and Orchestra (Joseph Vella), 653 Concerto for Violin and Orchestra (Joseph Vella), 653 Confitebor (Benigno Zerafa), 168, 193 Confitebor (Francesco Azopardi), 197 Confitebor tibi (Benigno Zerafa), 181 Confitebor tibi (Giuseppe Camilleri), 466 Confitebor tibi Domine (Filippo Bugeja), 341 Confitebor tibi Domine (Luigi Vella), 496 Congregazione dei musici di Napoli, 143 Congregazione dell’Oratorio, 148 Conservatoire de Musique (Paris), 187, 585, 587, 588, 612, 618, 619 Conservatorio dei Poveri di Gesù Cristo, 50, 88, 90, 92, 127, 129, 146, 147, 158, 159, 160, 190 Conservatorio di Musica di San Pietro a Majella, 113, 147, 295, 322, 323, 325, 338, 385, 418, 426, 520, 529 Conservatorio di Musica Giuseppe Verdi, 131, 515, 516, 524, 544 Conservatorio di San Sebastiano, 323 Conservatorio di Sant’Onofrio a Capuana, 50, 79, 90, 127, 128, 129, 143, 146, 147, 171, 172, 173, 174, 175, 179, 309, 310, 317, 318, 520 Conservatorio di Santa Maria della Pietà dei Turchini, 103, 104, 110, 115, 123, 124, 129, 146, 147, 173, 520 Conservatorio di Santa Maria di Loreto, 146, 147, 173 Conservatório Nacional de Lisboa, 547, 548 Consiglio, Edgardo, 658 Consoli, Nino, 613 Conti, Lino, 342, 425 Contumacci, Carlo, 171 Cooper, Martin, 195

Coppélia (Léo Delibes), 661 Corbisiero, Antonio, 103 Cordelia, sinfonia (Riccardo Bugeja), 262, 266, 342 Corelli, Arcangelo, 470 Coriolano (Giuseppe W. Malfiggiani), 513 Corteccia, Francesco, 54 Cosmic Visions (Charles Camilleri), 648 Costa, Michele [Michael], 526, 532 Cotoner, Rafael, grand master, 45 Cottino, Seconda, 564 Council of Trent, 12, 17, 18, 32, 33, 50, 104, 161, 162, 171, 311, 497 Count Roger of Normandy, 7 Crescentini, Girolamo, 526 Cresti, Renzo, 650, 654 Crispi, Francesco, 286 Crocco, Carmelo, 284 Cum novissime (Clement VIII), 497 Cum pervenisset (Paolo Nani), 421 Cum Sancto Spiritu (Antonio Nani), 413 Cum Sancto Spiritu (Paolo Nani), 397 Curmi, Alessandro, 254, 317, 283, 391, 401, 526, 529, 530, 534, 536, 537, 552, 615, 659 - resident composer (ballet), Royal Italian Opera at Covent Garden, 572-7 D’Accone, Frank A., 54 D’Adorno, Allegri, 608 D’Amico, Bianca, 672 d’Autun, Jean Quintin, 51 d’Onofrio, Camillo, 687 D’Oyley Torrens, Henry, sir, 595 Dafne (Giuseppe Mulè), 669 Dafne (Jacope Peri), 20 Danao re d’Argo (Giuseppe Persiani), 546 Dances Hongroises (Paolino Vassallo), 596, 615 Danse Honjgroise pour piano a 4 mani (Carmelo Pace), 739 Darbois, Camilla, 276, 277, 325, 528 Daughter of St Mark (Michael William Balfe), 554 de Bassini, Alberto, 281 de Brosess, Charles, 148 de Bury, Henri Blaze, 228 De Christophoro D’Avalos, Felice Antonio, 186, 367 De Ecclesia, 12 De Gabriele, Marcel, 688, 735, 736, 741,

INDEX 803

744 de Gambarell, Federico, 281, 312 de Giosa, Nicola, 284, 426, 407 de Gourieff, Maria, 564 de la Cassière, Jean, grand master, 12, 119 de la Sengle, Claudio, grand master, 11 de Lancellotti, Cesare, 660 de Lucca, Salvatore, 163 de Macchi, Maria, 281 de Majo, Giuseppe, 138 De profundis tenebrarum mundo lumen exit clarum (Giuseppe Spiteri Fremond), 468 de Reszke, Josephine, 564 de Rohan, Emanuel, grand master, 118, 205, 208, 211, 216, 217, 374 de Rohan, Eugene Clement, fra, bali, 379, 380 De Sanctis, Angelo, 425, 476 de Tomasi Gori, Teresina, 276 De torrente (Paolo Nani), 389, 390 de Victoria, Tomàs Louis, 63 Debono, Roberto, don, 165 Debussy, Claude, 672, 727 Decesare, Francesco, 263, 264, 265, 289, 467, 517 Decesare, Roberto, 263, 265, 467 Decombe, François-Ferdinand, 534 dei Conti Sant, Publio Maria, mgr, 404 Del Negro, Domenico, 413 Del Riccio, Lorenzo, 250, 276, 278, 418, 419 Deliana (Carmelo Pace), 729 Delibes, Léo, 661 della Terza, Marco Raffaele, 278 Delrieu, Joseph Bernard, 226, 232 Demarco, Fortunato, don, 114 Denza, Luigi, 296 Der Freischütz (Carlo Maria von Weber), 555 Der Heilige Gerold (Joseph Sammut), 748, 764 Description of Malta and Gozo (George Percy Badger) 25 Despuig, Ramon, grand master, 83 Det tuba clangore (Giuseppe Balzano), 35, 38 Deus in adjutorium (Antonio Nani), 397 Deus in adjutorium (Ċensinu Bugeja), 351 Deus in adjutorium (Paolo Nani), 403 Deus tuorum militum (Pietro Paolo Bugeja), 315

Developments in Education outside the Jesuit Collegium Melitense (Vincent Borg), 17 Devil’s Trill Sonata (Giuseppe Tartini), 367 di Barone, Carlo, 134 di Domenici, Gianpaolo, 48 Di Donato, Vincenzo, 440 Di Giacomo, Salvatore, 88, 89, 90, 103, 128, 137, 174 Di Laudadio, Angelo, 608 di Maio, Rosario, 209, 210 di Villarosa, Marchese, 123, 137, 138 Diacono family of musicians, 307 Diacono, Carlo, 68, 249, 251, 266, 273, 289, 348, 439, 440, 466, 590, 592, 609, 659, 671, 672, 673, 686, 689, 730, 754 Diacono, Frankie, 683 Diacono, Giovanni Battista, 399 Diacono, Orazio, 671 Dialogo musicale (Filippo Pizzuto), 83 Dialogo per la solenne festività del S. Angelo Custode (Tommaso Prota), 56 Diamans de la couronne (Daniel Auber), 553 Dictionnaire de Musique (Jean-Jacques Rousseau), 695 Dictionnaire historique des musiciens (Choron and Foyalle), 86, 123, 155, 208, 209, 212, 217 Die Meistersingers (Robert Wagner), 755 Dies Irae (Carlo Diacono), 754 Diffusa est gratia (Nicolò Isouard), 217 Dinorah (Giacomo Meyerbeer), 280, 583 Divall, Richard, 116, 117, 320 Diverse specie di clarini, loro indole, estensione, e corrispondenza di ciascun tono col violino (Giuseppe Vella), 485 Dixit Dominus (Benigno Zerafa), 159, 162, 181, 191 Dixit Dominus (Ċensinu Bugeja), 351 Dixit Dominus (Domenico Anastasi), 668 Dixit Dominus (Francesco Azopardi), 177, 178 Dixit Dominus (Girolamo Abos), 139, 140, 141 Dixit Dominus (Vincenzo Bugeja), 344 Dixit Dominus a 4 (Emanuele Nani), 382 Dobici, Cesare, 667 Doll, Giuseppe, 171 Domine ad adjuvandum (Giuseppe Vella), 255 Domine ad adjuvandum (Paolo Nani), 389,

804

THE GREAT MALTESE COMPOSERS

390 Domine Jesu Christe (Joseph Vella), 653, 655 Don Checco (Nicola de Giosa), 407 Don Desiderio (Józef Poniatowski), 276, 523 Don Fabrizio (Alessandro Carrione), 277 Don Giovanni (Mozart), 276, 280 Don Gregorio (Gaetano Donizetti), 381 Don Pasquale (Gaetano Donizetti), 391, 554 Dondi, Enrico, 281 Doneo, Carmelo, 289 Donizetti, Gaetano, 266, 276, 280, 295, 296, 381, 383, 385, 386, 391, 392, 401, 511, 528, 533, 538, 545, 549, 553, 554, 555, 556, 660, 661, 663 Dulcis amor (Aloysio Mataron), 15 Dun Ġorġ! (Charles Camilleri), 684 Durante, Francesco, 88, 89, 91, 129, 139, 140, 142, 143, 176, 212, 414 Duvernoy, Victor-Alphonse, 536 Dvorăk, Antonin, 647 Earth (Charles Camilleri), 648 Edith Cavell (Paolino Vassallo), 609, 611, 612, 613, 617, 659 Ego ille (Giuseppe Balzano), 38 Ego plantavi (Giuseppe Balzano), 38 Ego propter te (Luigi Fenech), 264 Ego vir videns (Girolamo Abos), 141 Ein Interkulturelles Projekt (Joseph Sammut), 748 Eitner, Robert, 86 Elegia della giovinezza perduta (Josie Mallia Pulvirenti), 616 Elena e Malvina (Francesco Schira), 546 Elisa (Silvestro Palma), 318 Elisa (Simon Mayr), 49, 276 Elisabeth or To be a Mann (Charles Camilleri), 649 Elisabetta e sia il castello di Kenilworth (Pasquale Sogner), 460 Elisabetta, Regina d’Inghilterra (Gioachino Rossini), 320 Elizabeth II, queen, 751, 752 Ellington, Duke, 680 Elodia di Herstall (Alessandro Curmi) 528, 530 Elssler, Fanny, 535 Engerer, Giorgio Fabrizio, 488 Enrico Quarto (Michael William Balfe),

553 Ernani (Giuseppe Verdi), 663 Espressionismo, poema sinfonica (Josie Mallia Pulvirenti), 616, 739 Étienne, Charles-Guillaume, 209, 226, 227, 230, 232 Ett, Caspar, 296 Eulenberg, Georg Friedrich, zu, baron, 45 Extase (Paolino Vassallo), 594 Fabrizi, Nicola, 286 Fago, Lorenzo, 103, 138 Fago, Nicola, 103, 104, 129 Falstaff (Giuseppe Verdi), 563, 663 Falzon, Giuseppe, 315 Farina, Edoardo, 289 Farinelli (Carlo Broschi), 135 Farnace (Giuseppe Arena), 86 Farrugia, Carlo, 126, 144 Farrugia, Ethel, 756 Farrugia, Felice, don, 114 Farrugia, Giuseppe, 675 Farrugia, Luigi, 386, 405, 423 Farrugia, Saverio, don, 82 Faust (Charles Gounod), 225, 276, 280, 583, 660, 755 Febraro, Paolo, 209, 276 Fede e bellezza (Giuseppe Scicluna), 252 Federici, Francesco, 382 Federici, Vincenzo, 544 Fedora (Umberto Giordano), 661, 663 Fedra (Francesco Schira), 546, 549 Fejn it-tieqa tal-fanal (Carmelo Pace), 691 Feliciati, Enzo, 613 Felise carina (O felix carina) (Benigno Zerafa), 168, 192 Felleler, Karl Gustav, 139, 140, 142 Fenaroli, Fedele, 295, 520 Fenech, Joseph, 678, 679, 681 Fenech, Luigi, 112, 263, 264, 265, 467, 583 Fenech, Victor, 692 Feo, Francesco, 79, 128, 129, 158, 190 Ferdinand VI, King of Spain, 135, 529 Ferretti, Paolo, 350 Ferrini, Margherita, 429 Ferroni, Emanuele, 315 Festa, Costanzo, 54 Festivities in the Mdina Cathedral and St John’s, 327 Fétis, François-Joseph, 86, 117, 224, 363, 448, 484, 543 Fid-dawl tal-qamar (Carmelo Pace), 692

INDEX 805

Fiamingo, Carlo, 440, 488, 658, 659, 687, 729 Fiamingo, Giorgio, 112, 263, 291 Fiamingo, Paolo, 112, 249 Fidelio (Beethoven), 392 Field, John, 470 Fioravanti, Valentino, 381, 543 Fioravanti, Vincenzo, 276 Fiorini, Stanley, 8 Five Dun Karm Psaila Poems (Paul Portelli), 684 Five variations on an old Welsh theme (Carmelo Pace), 740 Flaminius à Corinthe (Nicolò Isouard), 225 Fleri Soler, Nini, 755 Fleri, Antonio, 109 Fleri, Giuseppe, 476 Flores, Paul, 688 Flos Carmeli (Paolo Nani), 405 Flotow, Fredrich von, 276 Fogg, Eric, 741 Folco d’Arles (Nicola de Giosa), 407 Folgado, Manuel Marti, 613 Fondazione Manoel, 371 Fontana, Francesco, 14 Forti, Michele Angelo, 460 Fortuni, Filippo, don, 14 Fra Diavolo (Daniel Auber), 280, 583 Fra Diavolo (Fredrich von Flotow), 276 Framery, 187 Francesca da Rimini (Paolino Vassallo), 594, 596, 602, 603 Francesca da Rimini (Riccardo Zandonai), 612, 669 Franchi, Nazzareno, 429 Franck, César, 587 Franz Joseph II, emperor, 449 Fränzl, Ferdinand [Fraenze, Ferdinando], 276, 446, 447 Frasi, Giulia, 132 Frau, Dolores, 281, 282 Frazir (Paolino Vassallo), 607, 608, 612, 659 Freller, Thomas, 45 Frendo, Henry, 431 Frendo, Maria, 654, 655 Friggieri, Joe, 654, 662, 692, 735 Friggieri, Oliver, 684, 692, 699 Fundatus (Filippo Bugeja), 342 Fundatus supra (Paolo Nani), 421 Fuoco, Sophie, 536

Furno, Giovanni, 309, 323, 385, 526 Fux, Johann Joseph, 36 Gabriel Angelus (Antonio Nani), 435 Gabriel Angelus (Paolo Nani), 421 Gabrieli, Andrea, 157 Gabrieli, Giovanni, 157 Gafà, Lorenzo, 37, 163 Gafà, Melchiorre, 462 Galdes, Micheli, 10 Galea, Alfons Maria, 228 Galea, Angelo, 286, 289, 394, 676 Galea, Arthur, 755 Galea, Emanuele, 254, 317, 490, 519, 520, 521 Galea, Filippo, 286, 289, 457 Galea, Frank, 289 Galea, John, rev, 699 Galea, Karmenu, 686, 687 Galea, Lorenzo, 676 Galea, Pietro Paolo, 590 Galea, Salv, patri, 345, 352, 683 Galleria Maltese scritta e compilata dal Sacerdote Francesco Caruana Dingli, 90 Ganado, Herbert, 614 Gargallo, Tommaso, fra, 422 Gatt family of musicians, 307 Gatt, Adeodato, 754 Gatt, Edgar, patri, 352 Gatt, Joseph, 441, 683, 684 Gatt, Lina, 758 Gavotta per 3 mandolini, 2 chitarre e quartetto d’archi (Paolino Vassallo), 615, 739 Gemma di Vergny (Gaetano Donizetti), 266, 386, 549 General Platoff Don Cossack and Dancers, 658 Generali, Pietro, 318, 381, 543, 546 Genova, Antonio, 729 George VI, king, 664 Georgi miles inclyti (Giuseppe Farrugia), 675 German, Agostino, 609, 658 Gesualdi, Jesuina, 547, 567 Gesualdo, Carlo, 64, 147 Għana (Maltese folk music), 23, 24, 25, 698 Għanjiet ta’ Bniedem Solitarju (Albert Pace), 684 Ghigo, Clare, 765 Giammalva, Giuseppe, 315

806

THE GREAT MALTESE COMPOSERS

Gianni da Calais (Gaetano Donizetti), 545, 546 Giardini Vella, Giuseppe, 662 Giay, Giovanni Antoinio, 48 Gieħ in-Naxxar, 682 Gilardoni, Domenico, 526 Gilbert & Sullivan, 762 Ginevra di Monreale (Giuseppe E. Bonavia) 284, 517, 518 Ginevra di Scozia (Nicolò Isouard), 49, 217 Gioas, re di Giuda (Pietro Paolo Bugeja), 307, 313, 319 Gioco a trisette con Filli (attr. Domenico Balzano) 38 Giommi, Nume, 428 Giordano, Umberto 660, 661 Giornale della Santa Chiesa Cattedrale di Malta, 13 Giraud, Marie Roussel, 282 Glathe, Susan, 764 Gli applausi della fama (Michel’Angelo Vella), 108 Gli Arabi nelle Gallie (Giovanni Pacini), 547 Gli esiliati di Siberia (Gaetano Donizetti), 528 Gli ugonotti (Giacomo Meyerbeer), 280, 583 Gloria in excelsis (Paolo Nani), 389 Gloria Mundi (Michel’Angelo Vella), 108 Gloriosae Virginis (Joseph Fenech), 681 Gloriosae Virginis (Paolo Nani), 421 Gloriosae Virginis Mariae (Filippo Bugeja), 341 Gluck, Christopher Willibald, 132 Gnecco, Francesco, 391 Goja, Antonio, 144 Golisciani, Enrico, 284, 292, 427, 429, 518 Gomes, Antonio Carlos, 267, 429 Gonzi, Lorenzo, 249, 289, 439, 440, 590 Gort Hoare, Richard, sir, 49 Gosse, François-Joseph, 233 Gouder, Lily, 755 Gounod, Charles, 276, 583, 660, 755 Graduali ed Offertori per le solennità dell’anno (Benigno Zerafa), 168 Gran Concerto di Musica Sacra (Antonio Nani), 256 Grande Messa (Paolino Vassallo), 598, 601, 602, 618 Grande Messa Sancte Joseph (Carmelo Scerri) 680, 681

Gratiani, Bonifacio, 65 Gravina, Euchar, 72 Grech Grandolini, Luigi, 247, 490, 492 Grech, Gaetano, 88, 263, 289, 590 Gregorian chant, 5, 6, 8, 12, 36, 115, 160, 171, 246, 251, 297, 441, 668 Gregory the Great, pope, 5, 6, 293 Gregory XVI, pope, 297, 311 Grenfell, lord, 438 Gretry, André-Ernest-Modeste, 186, 187, 225, 470 Grillet Xeberras, Onorato Vincenzo, 371 Grisi, Giulia, 551 Gristi, Pietro, 50, 56, 90, 105, 158 Grossi, Gaetano, 379 Grove, George, 547, 558, 565 Guasconi, Ines, 613 Guglielmi, Carlo, 318 Gugliemi, Pietro Alessandro, 212, 380, 447 Guillaume Tell (Giachino Rossini), 532 Guillaume Tell, French vessel, 222, 223 Guiraud, Ernest, 583, 586 Gustavo d’Orxa nella torre d’occidente (Alessandro Curmi), 526, 527, 529 Hadrian Barbarossa (Ferdinand Fränzl), 446 Ħal Saflieni, 4 Handel, George Frideric, 449 Hanslick, Eduard, 652 Hare, Alfred P., 288, 289 Harvey-Wihan, Maria Antonia, 663 Harvey, Harry, 282 Havély, Fromental, 583 Hayden, Joseph, 447 Headington, Christopher, 4 Hèbè (Nicolò Isouard), 216 Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich, 653, 655 Heritage Suite (Joseph Sammut), 765 Hiawatha, ballet (Samuel ColeridgeTaylor), 736 Hic est qui fuit in ecclesia (Pietro Paolo Bugeja), 315 History of Rome (Livy), 26 Hodie egressa (Giuseppe Farrugia), 675 Hodie egressa est (Vincenzo Bugeja), 267 Hodie egressa est (Paolo Nani), 421 Hodie Maria Virgo (Cesare Vassallo), 490 Hoffman, ETA, 652 Hoffman, François-Benoit, 226 Holst, Gustav, 751 Horace, 26

INDEX 807

Howson, Emma, 282 Huarte, Emanuele, 281 Hugo, Victor, 541 Hunting Song (Carmelo Pace), 690 Hutchings, Arthur, 297 Hypogeum, 4 I baccanali di Roma (Pietro Generali), 546 I briganti (Saverio Mercadante), 551 I cavalieri di Malta (Antonio Nani), 262, 268, 284, 391, 411, 429, 431, 432, 436, 607 I cavalieri di Valenza (Francesco Schira), 548 I diamanti della corona (Daniel Auber), 280 I due avari (Nicolò Isouard), 49, 217 I due dottori (Giuseppe W. Malfiggiani), 284, 513 I gioielli della Madonna (Ermanno WolfFerrari), 612 I Lombardi (Giuseppe Verdi), 563 I Martiri (Carmelo Pace), 609, 643, 729, 739 I pagliacci (Ruggero Leoncavallo), 612, 661 I pescatori di perle (Georges Bizet), 279, 280, 660 I pini di Roma (Ottorino Respighi), 658 I puritani (Vincenzo Bellini), 278, 553, 554 I quattro antichi conservatorii di musica a Napoli (Salvatore di Giacomo), 88, 103, 137, 174 Id-dell tas-Sultan (Emanuele Caruana), 686, 687 Il bacio (Luigi Arditi), 560 Il barbiere di Siviglia (Gioachino Rossini), 266, 381, 554, 663, 755 Il barbiere di Siviglia (Nicolò Isouard), 49, 217 Il barone d’Alba chiara (Nicolò Isouard), 49, 217 Il bottaio (Nicolò Isouard), 49, 217 Il bravo (Saverio Mercadante), 401 Il cantico delle creature (Joseph Vella), 684 Il cantico di Frate Sole (Carlo Diacono), 671 Il cantico di Salomone (Carmelo Pace), 730 Il Corriere (Gioseffo Catrufo), 49 Il cuor di Ben (Giuseppe Giardini Vella), 662 Il cuor tradito (Napoleon Tagliaferro), 292 Il domino nero (Daniel Auber), 280

Il fanatico per la musica (?Francesco Schira), 551 Il fanatico per la musica (Francesco Schira), 547 Il fior del mio diletto (Paolino Vassallo), 593, 596 Il Guarany (Carlos Gomes), 267, 429 Il lamento del bardo (Saverio Mercadante), 338 Il masnadiero degli Abruzzi, ballet (Francesco Schira), 549 Il musico prattico (Francesco Azopardi), 156, 187, 195, 485 Il Natale di Cristo (Carmelo Pace), 730 Il naufragio di San Paolo (Paolo Nani), 268, 393, 433 Il primo omaggio (Pietro Paolo Bugeja), 320 Il profeta (Giacomo Meyerbeer), 280, 583 Il promoteo (Filippo Pizzuto), 83 Il proscritto di Messina (Alessandro Curmi), 284, 401, 529, 530, 531 Il ritorno d’Astrea (Francesco Schira), 547 Il ritorno da Birzebbugia (Giuseppe Spiteri Fremond), 408, 467, 470 Il saltimbanco (Giovanni Pacini), 391 Il segreto di Susanna (Ermanno WolfFerrari), 612 Il templaro (Otto Nicolai), 276 Il torneo (Vincenzo Bugeja), 326 Il trovatore (Giuseppe Verdi), 663 Il vecchio deluso (Giuseppe Arena), 93, 107 Il vello d’oro (Giuseppe Arena), 94 Il ventaglio (Pietro Raimondi), 381 Il-barri (Joseph Vella), 693 Il-Fidwa tal-Bdiewa (Charles Camilleri), 649, 662, 698 Il-Kantiċi ta’ San Luqa (Joseph Sammut), 764 Il-kappella tal-paċi (Carmelo Pace), 692, 733 Il-Kebbies tal-Fanali (Joseph Vella), 694 Il-Lejla l-Qamar qed Jitwerreċ (Joseph Vella), 694 Il-Moviment Qawmien Letterarju, 692 Il-Qtugħ tat-Tin (Carmelo Pace), 744 Il-Wegħda (Charles Camilleri), 649, 662, 684, 698 Ildegonda (Michele Costa), 526, 527 Imagination (Freddie Mizzi), 765 Imbert, Carlo, 158 Imbert, Pietro, don, 170

808

THE GREAT MALTESE COMPOSERS

Impresione sinfonica (Josie Mallia Pulvirenti), 616 Impressione Sinfonica (Josie Mallia Pulvirenti), 739 Improperium expectavi (Giuseppe W. Malfiggiani), 515 Incipit oratio Jeremiae prophetae (Francesco Azopardi), 66 Incipit oratio Jeremiae prophetae (Paolino Vassallo), 67 Incipit oratio Jeremiae prophetae (Paolo Nani), 66, 250, 418, 419 Incipit oratio Jeremiae prophetae (Pietro Paolo Bugeja), 66, 418 Ingresso Zaccharia (Vincenzo Bugeja), 332 Inni di Gloria (Vincenzo Ciappara), 590 Inno del Triduo di San Domenico (Vincenzo Bugeja), 344 Inno per San Domenico (Pietro Paolo Bugeja), 315 Innocent X, pope, 497 Innocenti, Luigi, 281 Innu lil Marija Bambina (Carmelo Pace), 689 Innu lill-Qalb ta’ Ġesù (Carmelo Pace), 689 Innu ta’ Filgħaxija (Giuseppe Caruana), 686 Innu ta’ Filgħodu (Giuseppe Caruana), 686 Innu tal-Irġiel tal-Azzjoni Kattolika (Carmelo Pace), 689 Innu tal-Istudenti Univesitarji (Carmelo Pace), 689 Innu tal-Moviment ta’ Kana (Carmelo Pace), 689 Insanguine, Giacomo, 129, 309 Intermezzo al oboe solista (Luigi Fenech), 264 Inunctum nobis (Pius IV), 17 Invocabit me (Giuseppe Vella), 255 Invocation to the Creator (Charles Camilleri), 650 Ipogeana (Carmelo Pace), 643, 730, 739 Ismail, Pasha, 517 Isouard Xuereb, Fortunato, 207, 212, 218, 223 Isouard, Nicolò, 45, 49, 103, 109, 155, 185, 186, 205, 208, 210, 211, 213, 216, 218, 219, 220, 221, 222, 223, 224, 225, 227, 228, 230, 231, 233, 285, 309, 424, 659, 662, 736 - list of operas, 234-237

Iste Confessor (Pietro Paolo Bugeja), 315 Iste confessur (Paolo Nani), 421 Istituto delle Damigelle Nobili d’Odessa, 523 Istituto di musica (Paolino Vassallo), 587, 589, 597 Istituto Maltese di Educazione Cattolica, 466 Italia Irredenta movement, 430 Izzo, Charles H., 688 Jacopone da Todi, monk, 142 Janacek, Leos, 697 Jean de Paris (François-Adrien Boieldieu), 229 Jeannot et Colin (Nicolò Isouard), 230, 662 Jesus of Nazareth mixed choir, 345 Jiena xbejba ġo dar ommi (Domenico Amore), 514 Jimmy Dowling Dance Band, 680 Jochum, Eugen, 755 Joconde (Nicolò Isouard), 227, 230, 662 Joculturi alias joculari et sonaturi, 9, 19 John Paul II, pope, 6, 498 Jommelli, Niccolò, 103, 129, 470 Jone (Enrico Petrella), 262 Joseph fili David (Paolo Nani), 421 Jubilamus (Carmelo Pace), 729, 761 Juravit (Riccardo Bugeja), 343 Juravit Dominus (Filippo Bugeja), 341 Juravit Dominus (Girolamo Abos), 139 Justus ut palma (Antonio Nani), 408, 467 Justus ut palma (Giuseppe Spiteri Fremond), 468 Kabaivanska, Raina, 663 Katrin tal-Imdina (Steven-Joseph Psaila), 684 Kelly, Michael, 129 Kenilworth (Francesco Schira), 554 Kissaun, Maryann, 758 Klemperer, Otto, 755 Knights of Malta Suite (Charles Camilleri), 645 Kodály, Zoltán, 645 Kreneck, Ernst, 64 Kreutzer, Rodolphe, 224, 225, 226, 230, 450 Kubelik, Rafael, 755 Kyre-Gloria Mass (Benigno Zerafa), 161 Kyrie (Paolo Nani), 389, 403 Kyrie e Gloria ad 8 voci con violini e

INDEX 809

strumenti da fiato e fagotto obbligati (Francesco Azopardi), 180 L-għanja ta’ Malta (Charles Camilleri), 649, 698 L-Għors ta’ Tonina mas-Sur Ġinesju (Giuseppe W. Malfiggiani), 513 L-Imnarja (Carmelo Pace), 691, 744 L-Istorja tal-Edukazzjoni f ’Malta (Joseph Zammit Mangion), 102 L’abate, ossia Il poeta moderna (Tommaso Prota), 49, 56 L’Africana (Giacomo Meyerbeer), 280, 391, 583 L’alpino (Carlo Diacono), 609, 659, 672 L’Amour de Dieu (Charles Camilleri), 650 L’Annibale in Capua (Nicolò Beregon), 21 L’arca del testamento atterra l’Idolo Dagone (Girolamo Abos), 135 L’Art d’Acorder soi-même son Piano (Claude Montal), 485 L’assedio di Corinto (Gioachino Rossini), 381 L’aurora (Emanuele Caruana), 687 L’avviso ai maritati (Nicolò Isouard), 212, 213, 214 L’ebrea (Fromental Havély), 583 L’elisir d’amore (Gaetano Donizetti), 383, 386, 554, 663 L’equivoco fortunato (Gaetano Marinelli), 543 L’esule di Roma (Gaetano Donizetti), 386 L’ideale (Emanuele Caruana), 687 L’impresario in augustie (Alessandro Carrione), 277 L’improvvisata in campagna (Nicolò Isouard), 49, 217, 225 L’intrigue aux Fenêtres (Nicolò Isouard), 225, 229 L’Isle Adam (Giuseppe W. Malfiggiani), 513 L’Italiana in Algeri (Gioachino Rossini), 266, 381, 534, 535 L’Odalisque, ballet (Alessandro Curmi), 535, 536, 538 L’Orfeo (Claudio Monetverdi), 20 L’Ostinata (Antonio Nani), 292 L’une pour l’autre (Nicolò Isouard), 231 La bizzarra, sinfonia (Paolo Nani), 266, 268, 393, 433 La boheme (Giacomo Puccini), 661, 663, 762

La carità di San Tommaso di Villanova (Melchiorre Gafà), 462 La Cenerentola (Gioachino Rossini), 227, 228, 229, 381 La clemenza di Tito (Gluck), 132 La farfalla (Paolino Vassallo), 596 La Favorita (Gaetano Donizetti), 282, 391, 401, 661 La figlia del reggimento (Gaetano Donizetti), 386 La forza del destino (Giuseppe Verdi), 429, 663 La frascatana (Leonardo Leo), 148 La gazza ladra (Gioachino Rossini), 266, 528 La gioconda (Amilcare Ponchielli), 663 La guerra aperta (Carlo Guglielmi), 318 La magica lanterna (Francesco Azopardi), 176, 195, 196 La marchesa e il tamburino (Aniello Barbati), 407 La mezzanotte (Paolo Nani), 283, 361, 423 La moglie gelosa (Girolamo Abos), 132 La morte d’Abel (Girolamo Abos), 135 La morte d’Adelaide (Valentino Fioravanti), 381, 382 La Morte di San Agostino (Domenico Anastasi), 668 La muta di Portici (Daniel Auber), 276, 280, 583 La passione di Cristo (Francesco Azopardi), 196, 319 La plainte (Nicolette Isouard), 229 La Predestinata (Carmelo Pace), 730 La prova di un’opera seria (Francesco Gnecco), 391 La pupilla (Giuseppe Avossa), 124 La rivolta delle donne nel seraglio, ballet (Francesco Schira), 549 La Rivoluzione di Parigi del 24 Febbraio 1848 (Alessandro Curmi), 539, 540, 615 La Rosiera, ballet (Alessandro Curmi), 535, 536 La Serva Padrona (Domenico Cimarosa), 761 La serva padrona (Giovanni Battista Pergolesi), 260 La serva padrona (Girolamo Abos), 124 La sirène (Daniel Auber), 553 La sonnambula (Vincenzo Bellini), 546, 547, 552, 553, 554

810

THE GREAT MALTESE COMPOSERS

La sposa vencitrice de’ sacri cantici (Girolamo Abos), 136 La Statue ou la Femme avare (Nicolò Isouard), 226 La Straniera (Vincenzo Bellini), 550 La tomba della pentita (Giuseppe Spiteri Fremond), 470 La Traviata (Giuseppe Verdi), 566, 661, 663 La trovatella (Paolino Vassallo), 596 La vergine del castello (Giuseppe Privetera), 278 La virtù trionfante (Michel’Angelo Vella), 107 La Walkira (Robert Wagner), 660 Labini, Vincenzo, bishop, 182, 185, 188 Lablache, Luigi, 551 Laeta surge dulcissima aurora (Benigno Zerafa), 161 Laferla, A.V., 246, 438, 510 Laffont, Paul, 232 Lafont, Charles, 450 Laine, Frankie, 645 Lamentations (Jeremiah), 62, 63 Lamentazione del Venerdì Santo (Paolo Nani), 418 Lamoureux, Charles, 584 Lampugnani, Gianbattista, 48 Landi, Antonio, 54 Language Question, 642 Lapsi (Carmelo Pace), 692 Largo al antico (Carmelo Pace), 740 Lattuada, Emma, 613 Lauda Sion (Pietro Paolo Bugeja), 313 Laudamus con Gratias (Paolo Nani), 389 Laudate (Vincenzo Bugeja), 331 Laudate pieri (Carlo Diacono), 671, 673, 674 Laudate pueri (Antonio Nani), 256, 409, 410, 411, 433, 434, 466, 617 Laudate pueri (Ferdinando/Giuseppe Camilleri), 670 Laudate pueri (Paolino Vassallo), 598 Laudate pueri no. 3 [1895] (Giuseppe Vella), 466 Laurenza, Vincenzo, 48, 83 Lauron, Giovanni Battista, 315 Le baiser et la quittance (Isouard with others), 230 Le billet de loterie (Nicolò Isouard), 736 Le Bouquetiere de Venise, ballet (Alessandro Curmi), 535, 536, 538

le Brun, Giovanni, 291, 529 Le calife de Bagdad (François-Adrien Boieldieu), 229 Le Cid (Jules Massenet), 765 Le clemenze di Tito (Giuseppe Arena), 86, 93 Le due guide (Nicola de Giosa), 407 Le furberie deluse (Gabriele Prota), 542 Le glorie d’Ibero partecipate a Partenope (Girolamo Abos), 135 Le lac des fees (Daniel Auber), 532 Le lagrime d’una vedova (Pietro Generali), 381, 382 Le Mèdicin turk (Nicolò Isouard), 225 Le Merchant, John Gaspard, sir, 396 Le nozze di Figaro (Mozart), 107, 536 Le petit page ou La prison d’état (Nicolò Isouard), 225 Le Pin, Henry-Noel, 208 Le Puits d’Amour (Michael William Balfe), 553 Le Reine des Fées, ballet (Alessandro Curmi), 536, 538 Le Salamandrine, ballet (Alessandro Curmi), 534, 535, 536 Le tonnelier (Nicolò Isouard), 225 Le trame deluse (Domenico Cimarosa), 318 Le virtù in gara (Filippo Pizzuto), 83 Lebrun, Giovanni, 325 Leo XII, pope, 311 Leo XIII, pope, 311, 497, 610 Leo, Leonardo, 103, 104, 129, 139, 148, 212 Leonardis, Carlo, 276, 291, 325, 391, 401, 475, 528, 530 Leoncavallo, Ruggero, 280, 612, 660, 661 Léonce ou le Fils adoptif (Nicolò Isouard), 225 Leone XIII, pope, 267 Les Astres (Paolino Vassallo), 615 Les Confidences (Nicolò Isouard), 225 Les contes d’Hoffmann (Jacques Offenbach), 225 Les deux maris (Nicolò Isouard), 231 Les Huguenits (Giacomo Meyerbeer), 532 Les Quatre Fils d’Aymon (Michael William Balfe), 553 Les Rendez-vous bourgeois (Nicolò Isouard), 226 Les vêspres siciliennes (Giuseppe Verdi), 532

INDEX 811

Lettera Africana: dizione poetica (Josie Mallia Pulvirenti), 616 Levanzin, Agostino, 319, 515, 516, 522, 586, 593, 594 Lévi-Strauss, Claude, 641 Levita Laurentius (Luigi Fenech), 264 Levita Laurentius (Paolo Nani), 340 Lewis, George Cornwall, 242 Lezione elementari di musica (Giuseppe Scicluna), 484 Lia (Francesco Schira), 563, 565, 566 Liber Usualis, 64 Libera me, Domine (Michel’Angelo Vella), 115 Lil Qalb ta’ Ġesù (Giuseppe Caruana), 686 Lillo, Giuseppe, 391 Litania (Michel’Angelo Vella), 115 Litaniae B. Mariae Virginis (Benigno Zerafa), 181 Litany (Giuseppe Vella), 487 Litany of the Blessed Virgin Mary (Girolamo Abos), 141 Litany of the Blessed Virgin Mary (Giuseppe Spiteri Fremond), 465 Livy, 26, 27, 28 Llangollen International Musical Eisteddfod (1960), 690 Lo Biancho, Annibale, 106 Lo scavamento (Silvestro Palma), 318 Lo shiaffo (Aniello Barbati), 407 Lo sposo di provincia burlato (Emanuele Galea), 520, 523, 524 Lo sventurato (Napoleon Tagliaferro), 292 Locatelli, Emilia, 281 Lockhart, John Gibson, 290 Lodoiska (Vincenzo Bugeja), 283, 324, 325, 326, 528 Loëwe, Sophie, 550 Lohengrin (Robert Wagner), 280, 612, 660 Lombardo, Elena Maria, 207 London College of Music, 736 Louis Philip I, king, 552 Love in a Village, pasticcio, 133 Lowell, Edgar, 658 Lucia di Lammermoor (Gaetano Donizetti), 386, 553, 554, 661, 663 Lucillus, 5 Lucio Vero (Girolamo Abos), 132 Lucrezia Borgia (Gaetano Donizetti), 386, 534, 535, 538, 553, 554, 555 Ludowiska, ou O regecido, ballet (Francesco Schira), 549

Luigi, Grech, 384 Luke, Harry, sir, 664 Luppi, Elvira, 278 Lynn, Vera, 680 Macbeth (Giuseppe Verdi), 663 Madama Butterfly (Giacomo Puccini), 663, 762 Madrigali spirituali (Carmelo Pace), 684 Magne Pater Augustine (Giuseppe Spiteri Fremond), 468 Magnificant (Benigno Zerafa), 168, 193 Magnificat solenne (Emanuele Nani), 382 Magri-Overend, Ivan, 513 Magri, Giuseppe, 263, 287, 590 Magrin, Salvatore, 67, 109, 110 Mahoney, Patrick, 688 Mainardi, Marianna, 276 Majocchi, Luigi, 545 Majorano, Gaetano (Caffarello), 135 Malagricci, Francesco, 276, 283, 324, 325, 393, 528 Malek-Adel (Giuseppe Nicolini), 546 Malfiggiani, Achille, 267, 287, 514 Malfiggiani, Giuseppe W., 112, 284, 354, 383, 489, 511, 512 Mallia Cassar, Francesco, 112, 265, 287, 466, 475 Mallia Pulvirenti, Josie, 590, 591, 615, 657, 689, 739 Mallia-Milanes, Victor, 11 Malta (Paolino Vassallo), 598, 615 Malta Amateur Theatrical Company, 660, 661 Malta Band Clubs Association, 754 Malta bil-Gżejjer Tagħha u li Għadda minn Għaliha (Pietro Paolo Castagna), 101 Malta Cultural Institute, 680, 725, 733, 734, 754 Malta felice (Francesco Azopardi), 195, 196 Malta Galop (Antonio Nani), 292 Malta ġawhra tal-Mediterran (Carlo Diacono), 686 Malta Lyric Company, 660 Malta Operatic Choral Society, 690 Malta Suite (Charles Camilleri), 644, 761 Malta Symphony Orchestra, 666, 731 Malta War Symphony [1944] (Paul Nani), 442, 666 Malte ecclesie Cantor, Alexander, 8

812

THE GREAT MALTESE COMPOSERS

Maltensis Canonicus, Johannes Zafarana, 8 Maltese Christmas [1943] (Paul Nani), 442, 666 Maltese Cross (Charles Camilleri), 649 Maltese Folk Tunes (Carmelo Pace), 744 Maltese Language, 702-8 Maltesina (Carmelo Pace), 689, 743 Mamo, Ġiġi, 658 Mancinforte Sperelli, Giovanni Ottavio, mgr, inquisitor, 207 Mangion, Anthony, 354, 355 Manners, Charles, 602, 604, 605 Mannone, Gaspare, 384 Manon (Massenet), 280, 660 Manon Lescaut (Giacomo Puccini), 663 Marchetti, Filippo, 296 Marchetti, Giovanni, 280 Marcia religiosa e fuga (Paolino Vassallo), 615 Marcia trionfale (Paolino Vassallo), 592 Marco Botzaris (Vincenzo Bugeja), 326 Margarida de Normandia, ballet (Francesco Schira), 549 Maria de Rudenz (Gaetano Donizetti), 511 Maria egiziaca (Ottorini Respighi), 669 Maria la fioraia (Aniello Barbati), 407 Maria Padilla (Gaetano Donizetti), 556 Marinelli, Gaetano, 543 Marino Falieri (Gaetano Donizetti), 511 Marino, Michele, 243 Mario, Giovanni Matteo, 550, 551, 556 Mario, Giulia, 282 Marionettes (Carmelo Pace), 729 Marshall, Albert, 692 Marta ( Fredrich von Flotow), 280 Martinez, Marianna, 470 Martini, Padre, 470 Martinucci, Nicola, 663 Marton, Eva, 663 Martucci, Giuseppe, 296 Mascagni, Pietro, 279, 280, 660, 661 Massa Frumentaria, 208 Massa, Daniel, 692 Massenet, Jules, 280, 470, 581, 583, 585, 586, 587, 608, 612, 619, 660, 765 Mataron, Aloysio, 15 Mattei, Ferdinando, bishop, 246, 312, 321, 322, 382 Mattei, Giovann Battista, 488 Mattei, Stanislao, 297 Maurelli, Luigi, 413

Mayne, Thomas, 729 Mayr, Simon, 49, 276, 318 Mazaniello, ou A vingança, ballet (Francesco Schira), 549 Mazzelli, Raffaele, 676 Mazzucato, Alberto, 515 McNair, Crawford, 738 Medex Maddox, John, 552 Medica, Michele, 476 Mediterranean Dances (Charles Camilleri), 645 Mediterranean Music (Charles Camilleri and Peter Serracino Inglott), 649 Méhul, Étienne-Nicholas, 226, 230, 233 Melita (Charles Camilleri), 648 Melita Sacra (Vincent Borg), 21 Memorie dei compositori di musica nel Regno di Napoli (Marchese di Villarosa), 123 Menotti, Gian Carlo, 648 Menville, Raimondo Albino, 215 Mercadante, Saverio, 266, 276, 295, 296, 323, 391, 401, 403, 462, 533, 551 Mesa in fa (Antoinio Nani), 273 Messa (Kyrie, Gloria) a 8 voci con strumenti da fiato e 4 violini obbligati (Francesco Azopardi), 180 Messa a 4 voci scritta per ordine di Sua Altezza Eminentissima il Gran Maestro de Rohan (Nicolò Isouard), 217 Messa a 8 voci con strumenti (Francesco Azopardi), 473 Messa a due cori (Benigno Zerafa), 168 Messa a due cori (Giuseppe Scicluna), 252 Messa a due cori obbligati (Francesco Azopardi), 194, 474 Messa a due cori obbligati con violini e diversi altri strumenti anche obbligati (Benigno Zerafa), 167 Messa a tre voci (Riccardo Bugeja), 346, 348 Messa a tre voci e orchestra in omaggio alla Immacolata Maria (Riccardo Bugeja), 272 Messa Cantata Mater Dolorosa (Joseph Fenech), 681 Messa da requiem (Antonio Nani), 411, 412, 416, 417, 434, 436, 437, 451, 617 Messa da requiem (Giuseppe Burlon), 112 Messa da Requiem (Paolino Vassallo), 598 Messa da requiem [1943] (Paul Nani), 442

INDEX 813

Messa da Requiem in Fa minore (Giuseppe Spiteri Fremond), 469, 471 Messa de morti a 4 voci (Francesco Azopardi), 198 Messa de Rohan (Nicolò Isouard), 59 Messa del Naufargo [1930] (Paul Nani), 442 Messa del Naufrago (Antonio Nani), 273, 409, 411, 414, 416, 417, 434, 441, 598 Messa del Vescovo (Paolo Nani), 404, 418, 599 Messa di Gloria (Benigno Zerafa), 193 Messa di Gloria (Francesco Azopardi), 177, 178 Messa funebre (Giuseppe W. Malfiggiani), 514 Messa Grande in E flat (Carlo Diacono), 671, 673, 674 Messa Grande per soli, coro, e orchestra (Giuseppe Spiteri Fremond), 459 Messa in C minor (Girolamo Abos), 139 Messa in D (Benigno Zerafa), 159 Messa in G (Girolamo Abos), 138 Messa in mi bemolle (Carlo Diacono), 348, 466 Messa in onore di S. Paolo Naufrago (Antonio Nani), 474 Messa intiera (Girolamo Abos), 138 Messa intiera (Giuseppe Spiteri Fremond), 477 Messa solenne (Pietro Paolo Bugeja), 311, 312 Messiaen, Oliver, 645 Metastasio, Pietro, 83, 132, 135, 214, 319 Meyerbeer, Giacomo, 276, 280, 391, 445, 532, 533, 555, 583 Micallef, Gioachino, 189 Micallef, Giuseppe, 384 Micallef, Rosemarie, 345 Michel-Ange (Nicolò Isouard), 225 Micheli, Giuseppe, 672 Mifsud Bonnici, Carmelo, 611 Mifsud Bonnici, Robert, 338, 482, 483, 485, 487, 519, 582 Migliara, Firmino, 281 Mignon (Ambroise Thomas), 280 Mina (Francesco Schira), 554, 560, 561 Miserere (Francesco Azopardi), 66 Miserere mei Deus (Benigno Zerafa), 65 Miserere (Giuseppe Scicluna), 253 Miserere (Giuseppe Spiteri Fremond), 462, 465

Miserere (Gregorio Allegri), 297 Miserere (Michel’Angelo Vella), 115 Miserere (Pietro Paolo Bugeja), 313 Missa a 4 voci con piu istromenti (attr.

Michel’Angelo Vella), 116, 118 Missa brevis (Carmelo Scerri), 679 Missa in honorem Beatissimae Virginis Mariae de Monte Carmelo (Antonio Nani), 417, 348, 439 Missa Mundi (Charles Camilleri), 648 Missa per defuncti (Francesco Azopardi) 60 Missa polifonica (Carmelo Scerri), 679 Missa Sanctae Ceciliae a tre voci (Paolino Vassallo), 273, 591 Missa secunda pontificalis (Lorenzo Perosi), 297 Missa solemnis (Carmelo Scerri), 679 Missa Te Deum laudamus (Lorenzo Perosi), 297 Mizzi Vassallo, Bice, 731, 758 Mizzi, Achille, 692 Mizzi, Fortunato, 399, 517 Mizzi, Freddie, 765 Mizzi, Neriku, 658 Molinos, Carlo, 315 Monk, Thelonious, 680 Monna Bianca (Giuseppe Camilleri), 670 Monreal, Giuseppe Natale, 373 Monsieur Albert (François-Ferdinand Decombe), 534 Monsigny, Pierre-Alexandre, 225 Montal, Claude, 485 Montanaro, Vincenzo, 397 Monteverdi, Claudio, 20, 36 Montfort, Eric, 647 Montgomery Martin, Robert, 24 Monti, Vincenzo, 547 Moody-Manners Opera Company, 603, 606 Moody, Fanny, 602 Moore, John, 523 Morphogenesis (Charles Camilleri), 648, 650 Mosca, Giuseppe, 543 Moscuzza, Vincenzo, 280, 462 Motetti a due voci in pastorale (Benigno Zerafa), 168 Moto ritmico for solo viola (Carmelo Pace), 735, 745 Motu proprio (Pius X), 339, 345, 346, 350, 352, 361, 412, 435, 437, 438, 441, 451,

814

THE GREAT MALTESE COMPOSERS

472, 500, 581, 584, 590, 591, 643, 667, 668, 671, 673, 682 Mountbatten, lord, earl of Burma, 750, 752, 753 Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus, 133, 190, 276, 419, 449, 470, 533, 536 Mulè, Giuseppe, 669 Mulej għamilni strument tal-paċi Tiegħek (Joseph Gatt), 684 Murray Ballou, Maturin, 3, 25, 279 Muscat Azzopardi, Ġużè, 387, 399, 607, 627 Muscat Azzopardi, Ivo, 643 Muscat-Fenech, Antonio, 399 Muscat, Christopher, 72, 684 Muscat, Emanuele, 252, 254 Muscatu, Petru, 10 Music in Management, 763 Musica e Musicisti in Malta (Ulderico Rolandi), 124 Musica per violino (Paolino Vassallo), 615 Musicae Sacrae (Pius XII) 310 Mussorgsky, Modest, 660 Myslivecek, Josef, 470 Nabucco (Giuseppe Verdi), 266, 391, 563, 762 Nadurawk ja Ħobż tas-Sema (Giuseppe Caruana), 686 Nani family of musicians, 307, 361, 667, 749 Nani, Agostino, 375 Nani, Angelo, 56, 318, 361, 364, 367, 368, 369, 371, 373, 374, 375, 380, 388, 446 Nani, Angioino, 315 Nani, Antonio, 67, 255, 256, 261, 270, 272, 273, 284, 292, 343, 346, 348, 385, 389, 395, 396, 407, 408, 409, 411, 413, 414, 425, 428, 429, 432, 433, 435, 436, 439, 440, 451, 467, 470, 475, 514, 541, 593, 595, 607, 609, 616, 617 Nani, Elvira, 389, 396, 432 Nani, Emanuele, 362, 369, 373, 375, 376, 378, 380, 381, 382, 384, 388, 446, 450, 615 Nani, Enrico, 429 Nani, Girolamo, 381, 390 Nani, Giuseppe, 385, 390 Nani, Paolo, 66, 112, 249, 250, 253, 254, 255, 257, 258, 259, 266, 267, 271, 272, 283, 321, 340, 343, 361, 385, 386, 387, 388, 389, 392, 394, 395, 397, 398, 399,

400, 401, 403, 405, 404, 407, 409, 414, 418, 420, 423, 424, 434, 435, 436, 437, 438, 439, 441, 459, 461, 475, 484, 489, 593, 614, 644, 658, 663, 664, 665, 667, 680, 682, 683, 689, 731, 739, 749, 756 Nani, Paul, 442, 451, 484 - Rediffusion/British Institute concerts – composers and works, 666-7 Nani, Vincenzo, 375 Napoli di carnevale (Nicola de Giosa), 407 Nash, Thomas, 690 National Conservatory of Music (Tunis), 678 Navarini, Francesco, 281 Naxxar Schola Cantorum, 680 Nazari, Antonio, 362, 363, 367 Nel istante sfortunato (Francesco Azopardi), 176 Nel tuo leggiardo viso per la Resurrectione di nostro Signore (Giuseppe Arena), 94 Nelle trame deluse (Pietro Paolo Bugeja), 314 Nerone, pasticcio, 133 Niccolò de’ Lapi (Francesco Schira), 556, 560, 561, 562, 567 Nicholas I, emperor of Russia, 525 Nicolai, Otto, 276 Nicolini, Giuseppe, 546 Niedermeyer, Louis, 598 Nina (Giovanni Paisiello), 318 Nisġiet l-imħabba (Joseph Vella), 694 Nisi Dominus (Benigno Zerafa), 168, 192 No non sperarlo (Giuseppe Arena), 94 Non quaero nono volo, delicias mundi (Giuseppe Arena), 94 Noospheres (Charles Camilleri), 648 Norma (Vincenzo Bellini), 511, 554, 663 Notizia biografica di Francesco Azopardi maestro di cappella della chiesa cattedrale di Malta (Paolo Pullicino), 173 Notturno (Antonio Nani), 292 Nozioni elementari di musica con spiega ed esempio divisa in sette capi (Giuseppe Vella), 485 O beatum virum (Paolo Nani), 421 O Deus ego amo te (Girolamo Abos), 137 O Dreams come true (Giuseppe Camilleri), 670 O Melitae digna proles (Vincenzo Bugeja), 332, 333, 334

INDEX 815

O momento fatal (Francesco Schira), 550 O salutaris Hostia (Antonio Nani), 409, 411, 434 O salutaris Hostia (Pietro Paolo Bugeja), 307, 313 O sanctissima anima (Paolo Nani), 433, 434 O templo da immortalidad (Francesco Schira), 547 O tu fidelis patris (Filippo Bugeja), 341 Oliva, Gennaro, 217 Ommna Ħanina (Carmelo Pace), 689 Ommna tas-Sokkors (Joseph Sammut), 762, 763 Omnes amici mei (Giuseppe W. Malfiggiani), 515 Orazi e Curiazi (Saverio Mercadante), 391 Orazione al SS Crocifisso (Giuseppe Burlon), 112 Order of St John, 8, 12, 16, 20, 38, 44, 45, 46, 51, 55, 76, 77, 87, 104, 119, 122, 144, 184, 188, 241, 361, 366, 372, 373, 376, 379, 388, 429, 431, 607, 661, 761 Orgia (Carmelo Pace), 690 Ormandy, Eugene, 755 Ortigano, Vincenzo, 52 Otello (Gioachino Rossini), 553 Otello (Giuseppe Verdi), 563 Overtura a due violini, viola, due corni e basso (Giuseppe Arena), 94 Overtura con organo obbligato, violini e strumenti di fiato (Francesco Azopardi), 196 Pace Forno, Gaetano, mgr, 280, 408, 464, 467, 470, 481, 489, 490 Pace, Albert, 71, 684 Pace, Angelo, 754 Pace, Arthur, 658, 728, 739 Pace, Carmelo, 111, 481, 609, 643, 644, 658, 662, 680, 684, 688, 689, 690, 691, 693, 723, 726, 729, 732, 741, 749 - use of musical instruments, 737-9 Pace, Giovanni, 90, 91 Pace, Pietro, bishop, 263, 267, 270, 272, 347, 433, 495, 496, 597, 601, 602, 675 Pacini, Giovanni, 276, 280, 391, 547 Pacini, Giuseppe, 281 Pagaliano, Giuseppe, 604 Paganelli Grassi, Vittorina, 428 Paganini, Niccolò, 378, 448 Paisiello, Giovanni, 129, 295, 318, 447, 520

Palestrina, Giovanni Pierluigi da, 64, 139, 140, 194, 252, 655 Palma, Silvestro, 318 Palumbo, Costantino, 338, 339 Pamela nubile (Pietro Generali), 381, 382 Pandolfini, Angelica, 281 Pange lingua (Paolo Nani), 420 Panis Angelicus (César Frank), 587 Pantaleoni, Adriano, 281 Pantaleoni, Romilda, 281, 282, 564, 565 Pantalleresco, Alberto, mgr, 673 Papa, Paolo, 144 Parepa-Rosa, Euphrosyne, 276 Parisina (Gaetano Donizetti), 386 Parmiggiani, Adalgisa, 281 Parsifal (Robert Wagner), 754 Partimenti (Giuseppe Burlon), 485 Pasquali, Pietro, 428 Patti, Adelina, 560 Patti, Salvatore, 276 Paul VI, pope, 61 Paulo Sacrati Litoris [1934] (Paul Nani), 442 Paulus (Lorenzo Galea), 677 Pavani, Antonio Oliva, 276, 342 Pavesi, Stefano, 381, 543 Pavoni, Rinalda, 672 Pawlu ta’ Malta (Charles Camilleri), 649, 684, 698 Pellegrini, Vincenzo Maria, 643, 692 Pellerano, Carmine Giovanni, fra, bishop, 178, 207 Pelopida (Girolamo Abos), 131 Penun, Giuseppe, 109, 114 Pepi, Raffael, 209, 247, 323 Père Lachaise cemetery, 233 Perellos, Ramon, grand master, 48 Perens, Tommaso, fra, 165 Pergolesi, Giovanni Battista (Jesi), 89, 142 Peri, Jacope, 20 Perioso, Ettore, 673 Perosi, Lorenzo, 273, 297 Persiani, Fanny, 551 Persiani, Giuseppe, 546 Petrella, Enrico, 262, 280, 462, 470 Pezzuolo, Giovanni, 243 Phoenicia Award, 761 Piano Concerto Maqam (Charles Camilleri), 648 Piano Concerto No. 1, The Mediterranean (Charles Camilleri), 645 Piano Trio in A major (Joseph Fenech),

816

THE GREAT MALTESE COMPOSERS

681 Pianoforte Concerto No 1 in D Minor (Carmelo Pace), 731, 740 Piantanida, Gaetano, 545 Piccinni, Niccolò, 129, 172, 173, 174, 175, 176, 197 Pie Pater (Vincenzo Bugeja), 333 Pini-Corso, Gaetano, 281 Pinsuti, Ciro, 296 Pinto de Fonseca, Francesco, grand master, 56, 105, 107, 108, 109, 365, 367, 368, 369, 374, 486 Pisani, Ġorġ, 693 Pisani, Lazzaro, 468 Piscatore, Arrigo, count, 445, 446 Piscopo, Teodoro, 185 Pius IV, pope, 17 Pius IX, pope, 311 Pius VI, pope, 183, 245 Pius VII, pope, 245, 311 Pius X, pope, 6, 251, 255, 268, 269, 270, 297, 298, 299, 339, 345, 350, 352, 361, 412, 435, 451, 472, 501, 581, 590, 667, 671 Pius XII, pope, 61, 63, 269, 293, 310 Pizzuto, Filippo, 48, 76, 77, 79, 80, 81, 82, 83, 95 Pizzuto, Francesco Saverio, 263 Poeżiji tal-Baħrija (Joseph Vella), 694 Poli, Afro, 663 Poliuto (Gaetano Donizetti), 391 Ponchielli, Amilcare, 280, 663 Poniatowski, Józef, 276, 284, 523 Pons, Juan, 663 Pontificio Istituto di Musica Sacra, 350, 667, 668 Poole, Etta, 282 Portelli, Paul, 73, 684 Post partum Virgo (Joseph Fenech), 681 Posui adiutorium (Benigno Zerafa), 180 Pougin, Arthur, 543, 544, 556 Povani, Antonio Oliva, 342 Power, George, 282 Prandi, Giulia, 565 Prattico, Vincenzo, 393 Preghiera alla B.V. Maria (Carlo Diacono), 671, 673 Preghiera di Santa Monica (Domenico Anastasi), 668 Pretoria Secolo XX (Alberto Vella), 496 Prevost, Francesca, 593 Principato, Giuseppe, don, 185, 323

Principi di musica: intavolature per cembalo organo e partimenti (Giuseppe Arena), 91 Privitera, Giuseppe, 278, 462 Proni, Filippo, 312, 425 Prota, Gabriele, 542 Prota, Ignazio, 79, 128, 129 Prota, Tommaso, 49, 56, 128, 276 Provenzale, Francesco, 129 Psaila, Karm, dun, 686, 692, 738 Psaila, Steven-Joseph, 73, 684 Puccini, Giacomo, 280, 377, 419, 542, 660, 661, 663, 762 Pugi, Alessandro, 413 Pullicini, Filippo, 399 Pullicino, Paolo, can, 176, 177, 465, 486, 487, 489 Pullicino, Pietro Paolo, 52, 53, 109, 173, 174, 175 Purcell, Henry, 194 Puzzi, Giovanni, 551, 559 Pyne, Luisa, 556 Quaerite primum (Paolo Nani), 433 Quartetto per Giovedì Santo (Pietro Paolo Bugeja), 314 Querelle des Bouffons, 260 Querite primium (Ferdinando/Giuseppe Camilleri), 669 Qui sedes (Emanuele Nani), 382 Qui tollis (Riccardo Bugeja), 344 Quintessa (Charles Camilleri), 645 Quintetto per violino principale, due violini, flauto solo, e basso (Pietro Paolo Bugeja), 313 Quoniam (Paolo Nani), 389 Quoniam per canto (Emanuele Nani), 382 Radaelli, Giuseppa, 542, 545 Raimondi, Pietro, 297, 323, 381 Rampini-Boncori, Augusto, 342 Rapp, Jean-Dietrich, 363, 365, 366 Rawdon, Francis, marquis of Hastings, 320 Raybould, Clarence, sir, 753, 755, 760 Read, Charles, 751, 753 Real Collegio (Conservatorio) di Musica, 147, 295, 323, 520, 526, 527 Recessit pastor noster (Joseph Fenech), 681 Recordare (Pietro Paolo Bugeja), 312 Redenta (Carlo Fiamingo), 488, 659 Rediffusion (Malta) Ltd, 756 Reed, Emmelina, 282

INDEX 817

Reeves, Sims, 554 Refalo Rapa, Julian, 351 Refalo, Mikelangelo, 607 Refice, Licinio, 350, 440, 669 Règles de Composition (Marc-Antoine Charpentier), 670 Regli, Francesco, 543 Regnum mundi (Paolo Nani), 421 Reid, Charles, 750 Republic of Venice, 361, 362, 364, 375, 385 Requiem (Benigno Zerafa), 190 Requiem (Giuseppe Verdi), 296 Requiem (Joseph Sammut), 748, 763 Requiem (Mozart), 133 Rerum Novarum, 610 Respighi, Ottorino, 470, 658, 669, 727 Responsori del Giovedì Santo (Antonio Nani), 67, 256, 411 Responsori del Giovedì Santo (Paolo Nani), 433 Responsori del Mercoledì Santo (Antonio Nani), 67, 256, 434, 411 Responsori del Mercoledì Santo (Paolo Nani), 433 Responsori della Settimana Santa (Bonifacio Gratiani), 65 Responsori della Settimana Santa (Giuseppe Burlon), 112 Responsori duplicati e diverse lamentaziono (Giuseppe Balzano), 65 Responsori notturni per San Domenico (Pietro Paolo Bugeja), 315 Reverie (Carmelo Pace), 740 Riccardi, Elisa, 428 Ricci, Luigi, 276 Ricordare (Incipit oratio Jermeiae prophet) (Pietro Paolo Bugeja), 312, 344 Rigoletto (Giuseppe Verdi), 517, 660, 661, 663 Rinaldi, Andrea, don, 14, 15 Rinaldo d’Asti (Nicolò Isouard), 49, 217 Risorgimento, 430 Rispoli, Salvatore, 307 Rob Roy (Alessandro Curmi), 284, 528, 529, 530, 531 Robert le Diable (Giacomo Meyerbeer), 555 Roberto Devereux (Gaetano Donizetti), 391 Roberto il diavolo (Giacomo Meyerbeer), 276, 280, 583 Rochester, Marc, 650

Rode, Pierre, 450 Röder, Martin, 515, 516 Roger I of Sicily, 7 Rolandi, Ulderico, 124, 339, 399, 400, 487, 515, 539, 583, 584 Rolla, Alessandro, 378, 545, 546 Romani, Felice, 546 Roncali, Zaccaria, 399 Rorate coeli desuper (Benigno Zerafa), 192 Rosamunda (Giuseppe E. Bonavia), 518 Rosamunda (Luigi Majocchi), 545 Rosato, Luigi, 325, 384 Rossetti, Antonio, 564 Rossetti, Gabriele, 286 Rossi-Lemeni, Nicola, 663 Rossi, Gaetano, 547 Rossini, Gioachino, 47, 229, 266, 276, 280, 296, 320, 381, 416, 419, 470, 521, 525, 528, 533, 538, 553, 554, 556, 663, 754, 755 Roudil, Francesco, 565 Rousseau, Jean-Jacques, 695 Rovelli, Giuseppe, 379 Roveri, Gaetano, 440, 613 Rowdon, Francis, general, first marquess of Hastings, 510 Royal Malta Artillary Band, 285, 286 Royal Malta Fencible Regiment Band, 394 Royal Malta Military Band, 285, 287 Royas de Portalrubio, Martinus, mgr, bishop, 13 Rubini-Scalise, Fanny, 276 Rubini, Fanny, 425, 426 Rubini, Giovanni Battista, 551 Rubino, Antonio, 144 Ruggi, Francesco, 323, 385 Rull, Bartholomeo, bishop, 106, 113, 114, 168 Ryan, Desmond Lumley, 558 Sabat, Khalil Youssef, 516 Sabatini, Rafael, 362 Sacchini, Antonio, 362 Sacred Congregation of Rites, 266 Sadie, Stanley, 54, 293 Saffo (Giovanni Pacini), 391 Said, Emanuele, 658, 660 Sailor Beware (Charles Camilleri), 645 Saint-Saëns, Camille, 583, 660 Sala, Nicola, 103 Salinos, Giuseppe Agela, 658 Salve Regina (Benigno Zerafa), 168, 181,

818

THE GREAT MALTESE COMPOSERS

193 Salve Regina (Giuseppe Burlon), 112 Salve Regina (Giuseppe Spiteri Fremond), 465 Salve Regina (Giuseppe Vella), 487 Salve Regina (Josie Mallia Pulvirenti), 615 Salve Regina (Paolino Vassallo), 618 Salve Regina (Vincenzo Carabott), 398 Salve Regina per baritono (Francesco Decesare), 265 Salve Regina per tenore (Francesco Decesare), 264, 265 Salve Sancta Parens (Michel’Angelo Vella), 115 Samaras, Spyridon, 283 Sammartini, Giovanni Battista, 199 Sammartini, Giuseppe, fra, 53, 199, 215 Sammartini, Mechiorre, 53, 144, 199, 213 Sammut, Joseph, 71, 684, 690, 741, 748, 749, 750, 751, 754 - British Council/Rediffusion (Malta) Ltd concerts, 756-8 Sammut, Vincent, 658 Samut, Robert, 687 San Gregorio Magno (Carmelo Scerri), 679 San Niklaw for tenor and piano (Carmelo Pace), 735 San Paolo (Carmelo Pace), 730 Sancta et immacolata virginitatis (Michel’Angelo Vella), 115 Sancte Paole (Paolo Nani), 258, 403, 422 Sancte Paule (Alessandro Curmi), 532 Sangue Siciliano (Carmelo Pace), 739 Sansone e Delila (Camiller Saint-Saëns), 660 Sansone, Matteo, 15, 37 Santa Croce, Enrico, 282 Santini, Fortunato, 297 Sapiano, Andrew, 681 Sarcuni, Giovanni, don, 103 Sargent, Malcolm, sir, 749, 751, 752, 755, 760 - concert at Orpheum Theatre, 752 Sarti, Giuseppe, 447 Savona, Sigismondo, 399, 430, 487, 517 Sayd, Lorenzo, don, 163, 167 Scala, Giulio, 13 Scalchi, Gloria, 663 Scarlatti, Alessandro, 142 Scarlatti, Domenico, 449 Scerri, Carmelo, mgr, 678, 680, 681 Scerri, Emanuele, 678

Scerri, Vittorio, 677, 679 Scerri/Fenech family of musicians, 307, 677 Schembri, Calcedonio, don, 263 Schembri, Isidoro, don, 211 Schembri, Marianne, 173, 186, 195 Scherzo, andante e finale per orchestra (Paolino Vassallo), 615, 617 Schira, Francesco, 285, 296, 541, 545, 548, 550, 551, 554, 555, 556, 557, 558, 562, 567, 659 - operas, 559 - songs, 557-8 Schira, Michele, 542, 543, 545 Schira, Vincenzo, 543, 547, 561 School of Music, 667 Schottler, Giorgio, 613 Scicluna, Giuseppe, don, 252, 253, 483, 484 Scicluna, Salvatore, 590 Scio cui credidi (Luigi Vella), 496 Sciortino, Paolo, 399 Sciortino, Ruggiero, 290 Scopini, Benedetto, 425, 476 Scott, Walter, sir, 284, 290, 362, 541, 690 Scotti, Antonio, 281, 515 Scottish Highland Fusiliers Light Infrantry Band, 689 Scribe, Augustin Eugène, 541 Sedelmayer, Giuseppina, 530 Sedile di Nilo (Nido), 134, 135 Seħer (Joseph Vella), 694 6 ouvertures in pot-pourri (Emanuele Nani), 383, 615 Sei motetti à 2, canto et alto, in pastorale (Benigno Zerafa), 193 Sei sonate a tre violini col basso (Michel’Angelo Vella), 58, 117, 118, 615 Sejħa (Carmelo Pace), 692, 744 Selection of Maltese Traditional Tunes (Carmelo Pace), 744 Selvaggia (Francesco Schira), 563 Semiramide (Gioachino Rossini), 538, 556 Senesino (Francesco Bernardi), 212 Seniores populi (Paolino Vassallo), 500 Sepulto Domino (Giuseppe Vella), 500 Ser Marcantonio (Stefano Pavesi), 381, 543 Serazzi, Enrico, 278, 398 Serenata (Michel’Angelo Vella), 107 Serge, Ruggero, 518 Serracino Inglott, Peter, 649, 662, 696

INDEX 819

Serrao, Paolo, 338 Servale, Antonio, cardinal, Archbishop of Naples, 140 Settimo, Ruggero, 286 Sextet in C (Carmelo Pace), 740 Seychell, Giovanni Maria, 14 Sgambati, Giovanni, 296 Shenton, Kenneth, 648, 649 Shicoff, Neil, 663 Shuard, Amy, 691 Si soffre una tiranna (Giuseppe Arena), 93 Siface rè di Numidia (Giuseppe Arena), 93 Sigismondo, Arturo, 613 Silent Spaces (Charles Camilleri), 648 Simonetta (Emanuele Bartoli), 627 Sinatra, Frank, 645 Sinerco, Antonio, 490 Sinfonia (con voce femminile) (Joseph Vella), 654 Sinfonia (Francesco Azopardi), 196 Sinfonia (N. 22) con violini, corni da caccia, violetta e basso (Francesco Azopardi), 196 Sinfonia (Ruggiero Carabott), 399 Sinfonia [da chiesa] con oboe obbligato (Francesco Azopardi), 194 Sinfonia a due violini e basso (Girolamo Abos), 136 Sinfonia a piena orchestra (Paolo Nani), 392 Sinfonia con oboe obbligato (Francesco Azopardi), 58, 196 Sinfonia da chiesa (Giuseppe Arena), 94 Sinfonia da chiesa in re maggiore (Emanuele Galea), 520 Sinfonia da chiesa, 46, 111, 136, 196, 265, 266, 342, 406, 521 Sinfonia in A minor (Antonio Nani), 396 Sinfonia in do [1833] (Giuseppe Spiteri Fremond), 470 Sinfonia in mi [1831] (Giuseppe Spiteri Fremond), 470 Sinfonia in re [1854] (Giuseppe Spiteri Fremond), 470 Sinfonia pastorale (Emanuele Galea), 521 Sinfonia pastorale (Pietro Paolo Bugeja), 313 Sinfonietta (Carmelo Pace), 729, 741 Sixtus IV, pope, 293 Sixtus V, pope, 183 Snook, Paul A., 652 Società Dante Alighieri, 678

Società Filarmonica dei Nobili of Naples, 426 Society for Christian Doctrine (MUSEUM), 684 Society of St Vincent de Paule, 465 Sogner, Pasquale, 460, 461 Sound of Teamwork (Joseph Sammut), 764 Sparapani, Senatore, 564 Spezia-Adighieri, Maria, 281 Spinelli, Giuseppe, 127 Spingola, Francesco, 655 Spiteri Fremond, Giuseppe, 111, 112, 263, 264, 265, 291, 321, 341, 396, 408, 457, 458, 459, 460, 465, 466, 487, 489, 514, 583, 593, 628 Spiteri, Gio. Maria, 401 Spiteri, John, 755 Spohr, Louis, 366, 444 Spontini, Gaspare, 297 Spoto, Mario, 604 Spring (Carmelo Pace), 690 St Agnes Eyes (Samuel Coleridge-Taylor), 755 St Augustine, 62 St Francis of Assisi, 654 St Ġorġ Preca (Dun), 684 St Paul, 62, 171, 178 Stabat Mater (Carmelo Pace), 684, 730, 734 Stabat Mater (Christopher Muscat), 684 Stabat Mater (Gioachino Rossini), 256, 296 Stabat Mater (Girolamo Abos), 141 Stabat Mater (Giuseppe Burlon), 112 Stabat Mater (Giuseppe Vella), 489, 500 Stabat Mater (Michel’Angelo Vella), 114 Stans beata Agatha (Paolo Nani), 421 Stavinsky, Igor, 645, 652, 727 Steele, Tommy, 645 Stile, Michele, 564 Stockhausen, Karlheinz, 645 Storia del Zebbug e sua parrochia (Salvatore Ciappara) 52 Strauss Orchestra, 688 String Quartet (op. 2) (Joseph Vella), 693 String Quartet in C Major (Carmelo Pace), 740 Subvenite sancti Dei (Antonio Nani), 407, 411, 434 Sultana tal-Vittorji (Carmelo Pace), 692, 730 Sweet Memories (Joseph Fenech), 681

820

THE GREAT MALTESE COMPOSERS

Symphonic Orchestra of Radio Tunis, 678 Symphony No 2 (Carmelo Pace), 735 Symphony No 3 The Apocalypse Verses (Joseph Vella), 654, 656 Ta’ Saura Hospital, 183, 184, 185 Tabone, Giuseppe, don, 165 Tagliaferro, Napoleon, 292 Tallis, Thomas, 64 Tamagno, Francesco, 565 Tamburini, Antonio, 550, 551 Tannhäuser (Robert Wagner), 660 Tanti, Andrea, 172, 173, 174, 175, 190 Tantum ergo (Antonio Nani), 343, 397, 408, 433 Tantum ergo (Giuseppe Camilleri), 671 Tantum ergo (Giuseppe Vella), 487 Tantum ergo (Paolino Vassallo), 398, 593 Tantum ergo (Vincenzo Bugeja), 322, 331 Tantum ergo [1847] (Giuseppe Spiteri Fremond), 463, 465 Tantum ergo for tenor and string orchestra (Antonio Nani), 411 Tantum ergo in Fa [1929] (Paul Nani), 442, 682 Taqsim (Charles Camilleri), 648 Tartini, Giuseppe, 363, 367 Tasso e Raffaello sulle rive del Sebeto (Emanuele Galea), 522 Tati, Filippo, 325, 528 Tchaikovsky, Pyotr Ilyich, 755 Te celestina Vergine (Giuseppe Vella), 486 Te Deum (Antonio Nani), 397 Te Deum (Benigno Zerafa), 161 Te Deum (Nicolò Isouard), 210 Te Deum laudamus (Benigno Zerafa), 191 Te Deum laudamus (Emanuele Nani), 382 Te Joseph celebrant (Pietro Paolo Bugeja), 315 Temple of Jerusalem, 4 Temple of Juno, 5, 25, 28 Tenebrae (Michel’Angelo Vella), 115 Tenebrae (Pietro Paolo Bugeja), 312 Tenebrae factae sunt (Joseph Fenech), 681 Tenebrae, 45, 60, 62, 63, 64, 65, 66, 418, 419, 491 Testa, Carmel, 175 Testaferrata Abela, Augusto, baron, 470 Testaferrata Abela, Carmelo, 467 Teuma Castelletti, Giuseppe, 467 Thackeray, William Makepeace, 44, 45 Thaïs (Jules Massenet), 619, 660

Thalberg, Sigismond, 449 The Bohemian Girl (Michael William Balfe), 553 The canticles of Luke the Evangelist (Joseph Sammut), 684 The Castle of Fu Manchu, film (Charles Camilleri), 648 The Ear-Ring (Francesco Schira), 558, 559 The Egyptian Messenger and Giuseppe E. Bonavia, 516 The Eternal Triumph (Carmelo Pace), 730 The House of 100 Dolls, film (Charles Camilleri), 648 The Lord of Burleigh (Francesco Schira), 558 The Maid of the Mill, pasticcio, 133 The Man Verdi (Frank Walker), 544 The Mikado (Gilbert & Sullivan), 762 The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians (Second Edition) (ed.

Stanley Sadie) 86, 89, 90, 131 The Omega Point, 648 The Orphan of Geneva (Francesco Schira), 554 The Perfect Fool (Gustav Holst), 751 The Phenomenon of Man (Pierre Theilhard de Chardin), 648 The Seven Last Words (Carmelo Pace), 730 The Sinking of the Luistania, film (Vittorio Scerri), 678 The Spirit of Diversity (Joseph Sammut), 764 The Story of Malta, 3, 279 The Welcome Waltz (Antonio Nani), 292, 396 Théatre Zizinia, 383 Theatrical seasons, 370, 373 Theilhard de Chardin, Pierre, 648 Thérèse (Francesco Schira), 555, 560 Thomas, Ambroise, 280, 583 Three Mood Pieces (Joseph Vella), 652, 693 Three Ritual Meditations (Charles Camilleri), 648 Three Songs for Omar Khayyan (Charles Camilleri), 645 Tigrane (Giuseppe Arena), 86 Times of Day (Charles Camilleri), 645 Tito Manlio (Girolamo Abos), 131, 132 8 ta’ Mejju 1983 (Carmelo Pace), 729 Tonna, Ambrogio, 727 Tonna, Giuseppe, 658, 749 Torretta, Annita, 604

INDEX 821

Tosca (Giacomo Puccini), 660, 663, 762 Tosti, Paolo, 296 Tottola, Andrea Leone, 524 Tozzi, Antonio, 447 Tra le sollecitudini, 6, 255, 268, 472 Traianus, 5, 6 Trattato di armonia e contrapunto (Giuseppe Burlon), 112 Travaglini, Baldo, 281, 608 Tre messe breve a quattro voce (Francesco Azopardi), 197 Tristan e Isolde (Robert Wagner), 660 Triste ricordo (Emanuele Caruana), 687 Tristezza [1932] (Paul Nani), 442 Tristo e fuor d’ogni speranza (Francesco Schira), 550, 551 Tritto, Giacomo, 129, 295, 520, 526 Trois duos concertants pour deux violons (Emanuele Nani), 383, 384, 615 Tromben, Egisto, 281 Tromben, Elisa, 608 Turandot (Giacomo Puccini), 663 Turner, Cynthia, 758 Ultimo Canto (Emanuele Caruana), 687 Un geloso e la sua vedova (Nicola de Giosa), 407 Una bottega di caffé (Aniello Barbati), 407 Unione Cattolica San Giuseppe, 610 University of Toronto, 645 Unus ex discipulis (Paolino Vassallo), 500 Vade Anania (Francesco Azopardi), 194, 199, 200 Vade Anania (Vincenzo Bugeja), 333 Valente, Giorlando, 658 Valente, Valerio, 739 Valls, Giovanni, 607, 614 van Beinum, Eduard, 755 van Straubenzee, Charles Thomas, sir, 425, 514 Variable (Carmelo Pace), 736 Variation on the Maltese National Anthem (Carmelo Pace), 740 Variations for Orchestra (Carmelo Pace), 729, 744 Variations on a Maltese Air (Carmelo Pace), 744 Variations sur un air folklorique maltaise (Joseph Vella), 695 Vassallo, Cesare, 249, 320, 325, 489, 490 Vassallo, Emanuele, 582, 620

Vassallo, Gian Anton, 105, 109, 429, 526, 527, 539, 540 Vassallo, John, 688 Vassallo, Marie Therese, 733 Vassallo, Paolino, 67, 111, 267, 270, 272, 273, 284, 289, 291, 346, 347, 348, 398, 440, 466, 492, 496, 500, 581, 584, 585, 586, 592, 593, 597, 602, 609, 611, 612, 613, 614, 616, 617, 619, 659, 667, 671, 689, 728, 730 Vatican Council II, 5, 352, 498, 643, 683 Vaubois, Claude-Henri, general, 218, 219, 220, 221, 223, 224 Vaughan Williams, Ralph, 751 Vaughan Williams, Ursola, 648 Vella family of musicians, 307 Vella, Alberto, 487, 495, 496 Vella, Giuseppe, 244, 247, 254, 255, 263, 267, 291, 336, 437, 466, 481, 482, 483, 486, 488, 489, 492, 494, 496, 497, 500, 602 Vella, Joseph, 35, 38, 52, 229, 532, 650, 651, 684, 692, 695 - song cycles, 694-5 Vella, Luigi, 350, 487, 495, 496 Vella, Michel’Angelo, don, 18, 48, 58, 84, 101, 102, 103, 104, 106, 109, 110, 111, 112, 113, 116, 117, 118, 171, 210, 213, 615 Vella, Paolo, 487, 495, 496, 590 Veni Creator Spiritus (Francesco Azopardi), 180 Veni Creator Spiritus (Girolamo Abos), 137 Veni sposa Christi (Girolamo Abos), 137 Venite omnes (Domenico Balzano), 38 24 sonate a tre flauti senza basso (Michel’Angelo Vella), 84, 117 Verdi, Giuseppe, 47, 266, 276, 280, 296, 391, 429, 470, 511, 517, 532, 533, 544, 546, 563, 566, 660, 661, 663 Verdinelli, Nicola, 467 Veritas [mea] (Anotonio Nani), 408, 411, 434 Verrine Orations (Cicero), 28 Versatemi del vino (Francesco Schira), 552 Vestale (Saverio Mercadante), 403 Vestris, Auguste, 534 Vestris, Bernardo, 548 Vexilla Regis (Pietro Paolo Bugeja), 307, 312, 315 Vexilla Regis (Paolo Nani), 420

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THE GREAT MALTESE COMPOSERS

Viani, Petrus, fra, 125 Victoria, queen, 438, 532, 544 Vidal, Peire, 445 Vilhena, Antonio Manoel de, grand master, 78, 80, 81, 82, 87, 88, 92, 96 Vinco, Marianna, 514 Violenza e costanza (Saverio Mercadante), 266 Violetti, Cinzia, 694 Violin Concerto No. 1 (Charles Camilleri), 645 Violin Conerto (William Walton), 751 Virgam virtutis (Riccardo Bugeja), 343 Virgo Prudentissima [1839] (Paul Nani), 442 Vitalian, pope, 497 Volante, Francesco, don, 79, 80, 81 Volto Santo di Lucca, 377 von Weber, Carl Maria, 446, 555 Wagner, Robert, 280, 470, 612, 660, 754, 755 Waħdi (Joseph Vella), 693 Walburga, Maria Amalia, 135 Walker, Frank, 544 Walsh, Thomas, 275 Walton, William, 751 Ward ta’ Mejju (Carmelo Pace), 744 We’ll meet again (Vera Lynn), 680 Weigl, Giuseppe, 547 Weingweig, John, 645 Werther (Jules Massenet), 660 Wettinger, Godfrey, 8, 11 Whitman, Walt, 751 Wignacourt, Alof de, grand master, 80 William, Nassau, senior, 290 Wine of peace (Charles Camilleri), 650 Wolf-Ferrari, Ermanno, 440, 612 Woronzow, Mickhail Semyonovich, count, 523 X’Milied hu dan? (Joseph Vella), 694

Xagħra Circle, 4 Xicluna, Diego, don, 165 Zafarana, Johannes, 8 Zahra, Michele, don, 14, 16, 102 Zaira ossia Il trionfo della religione (Francesco Federici), 382 Zambelli, Giovanni, 342 Zammit Brighella, Giuseppe, don, 368, 369, 375, 393, 402 Zammit Mangion, Joseph, 102 Zammit, Edward L., 438 Zammit, George, 670 Zammit, Nicola, 399, 419 Zammit, Pio, 755 Zammit, Victor, 233 Zammit, William, 48, 369 Zandonai, Riccardo, 612, 669 Zarlatti, Maria - benefit, 300-303 Zarlatti, Maria, 277 Zauli Sajani, Tommaso, 286 Zenatello, Giovanni, 429 Zeno, Apostolo, 132 Zenobia di Palmira (Pasquale Anfossi), 447 Zerafa, Benigno, 50, 53, 57, 65, 90, 105, 129, 156, 158, 160, 161, 163, 164, 165, 166, 168, 169, 170, 172, 175, 178, 179, 180, 181, 183, 184, 185, 189, 190, 191, 196, 197, 200, 337, 461 Zerafa, Giovanni Battista, don, 171 Zerafa, Vincenzo, 170, 178, 181 Ziani, Pietro Andrea, 21 Żifna Maltija (Carmelo Pace), 744 Zimelli, Ettore, 659 Zingarelli, Niccolò Antonio, 252, 295, 296, 297, 323, 324, 385, 520, 526, 527, 532 Zoraime et Zudnar (François-Adrien Boieldieu), 229 Zorilla (Antonio Nani), 256, 261, 284, 391, 411, 416, 424, 425, 426, 427, 436 Zumpe, Johannes, 499

ABOUT THE AUTHOR Born in Malta, JOSEPH VELLA BONDIN is a retired teacher by profession and lectured in macro-economics and financial management in the University of Malta.

His interest in music, however, started in childhood as a flute-player. Later, he trained as a bass singer, and won the approbation of both critics and audiences through his accomplished interpretations of leading roles in operas, concerts and oratorios, besides extensive involvement in liturgical singing.

His musicological interests were furthered by advanced theoretical studies with composer Carmelo Pace and concentrate mainly on the history of Maltese music on which he has written widely.

He is a contributor to the Second Edition of The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, ed. Stanley Sadie. His history of Maltese music in two volumes, Il-Mużika ta’ Malta sa l-Aħħar tas-Seklu Tmintax and Il-Mużika ta’ Malta fis-Sekli Dsatax u Għoxrin, was the first such study to be written. The first volume won the Malta Government Literary Prize for Research Category. His modern edition of Stabat Mater (1750) by the Maltese composer Girolamo Abos was published in the USA by A-R Editions of Middleton, Wisconsin in 2003.

In collaboration with Mgr John Azzopardi and Franco Bruni, he has also written The Nani Composers, A Historical Assessment and a Catalogue of their Works. Important articles have appeared in such books as Nicolò Isouard de Malte, ed. Mgr John Azzopardi (1991); The Theatre in Malta, ed.

Cecilia Xuereb (1997); Melitensium Amor: Festschrift in honour of Mgr John Azzopardi, ed. Tony Cortis, Thomas Freller and Lino Bugeja, (2002); and Malta, Roots of a Nation, ed. Kenneth Gambin (2004). His other numerous short publications include studies on Girolamo Abos, Benigno Zerafa, Nicolò Isouard, Carlo Diacono, Carmelo Pace, Giuseppe Arena, Joseph Sammut, the Nani, Bugeja and Camilleri families of musicians, Maltese composers of Calendimaggio cantatas, the musical activity of old in St John’s Co-Cathedral, and forgotten or almost forgotten Maltese opera composers.

He has reviewed books, articles, musical compositions and CDs for the local press and has contributed extensively to radio and television. Of special note are Carlo Diacono f ’għeluq il-50 sena minn mewtu, a 1992 documentary on composer Carlo Diacono for Radio Malta; Carmelo Pace - Ħajja filMużika, a television documentary first transmitted on Television Malta on 22 May 1993; Il-Mużika Folkloristika ta’ Malta, a series of 13 programmes on Maltese folk music for Radju Bronja (1998) and afterwards Voice of the Mediterranean and Radju ZZZ of Australia; and Thirteen Maltese Composers, thirteen episodes for Voice of the Mediterranean (2003).

Since 2001, he has been music consultant to the APS Bank, helping it to produce its lauded annual flagship concerts and its series of CDs featuring works by Maltese composers for which he has written both the programme brochure and the CD booklets.

Mr Vella Bondin is also a multi prize-winning dramatist, with works performed on stage, radio and television and published in four collections.

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