Biography
Ignazio Fiorillo (11 May 1715 – 1787) was a Neapolitan-born composer whose career bridged Italian opera culture and the musical institutions of eighteenth-century Germany. Trained in Naples under Francesco Durante and Leonardo Leo, he emerged from the conservatory world into a life shaped by theatre and court service.
Treccani’s biographical summary places him as maestro di cappella in Brunswick from 1754 to 1762 and in Kassel from 1762 to 1780, after which he retired, dying at Fritzlar in 1787. Fiorillo’s name is concretely fixed to the operatic stage by surviving production documents, including the Venice 1741 libretto for Il vincitor di se stesso, and to the keyboard repertory through a digitised printed collection titled Sonate per cembalo… preserved by the Bibliothèque nationale de France. In overview, his output encompasses a substantial operatic catalogue, with titles such as Egeste (1733), Partenope nell’Adria (1738), and Il vincitor di se stesso (1741) among those singled out by Treccani as representative landmarks.
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