Biography
Geminiano Giacomelli (c.1692-1740) was an Italian composer.
Born in Piacenza, Giacomelli studied singing, counterpoint, and keyboard in Parma with G.M. Capelli, maestro di cappella of the cathedral.
Read full biography ↓
From 1719 to 1727, and from 1732 to 1737, he was maestro di cappella of the court of Parma and the church of the Madonna della Steccata, jointly with Capelli; from 1727 to 1732 he held the same position at S Giovanni in Piacenza.
Giacomelli wrote nineteen operas for various Italian cities; his most successful was Cesare in Egitto (1735). He also composed two oratorios and many sacred compositions of which only a few survive.
In 1738 he was appointed maestro di cappella of the Santa Casa, Loreto. He died in Loreto at the age of about forty-eight.
Biography text from Last.fm, available under CC BY-SA.