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Buono Giuseppe Chiodi
italian18th century
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Buono Giuseppe Chiodi (Salò, 20 January 1728 - Santiago de Compostela, 7 September 1783) was an Italian composer, active in Spain. A priest, he was apparently maestro di cappella at Bergamo Cathedral when he was appointed to the equivalent post at Santiago di Compostela in 1769. Besides numerous sacred works, he wrote at least two operas, De las glorias de España, la de Santiago es la mejor (1773) and La birba (1774). Nothing survives of the first, a kind of oratorio or ‘poema sacromelodramático’ to a libretto by Amo y García de Lois. La birba, in three acts, was composed for the feast of St James the Apostle, and from surviving parts it was evidently a comic opera, possibly the first ever performed in Santiago. The many arias and eloquent duets are particularly brilliant and carry the whole action; the few recitatives that survive are unusually elaborate for the time. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.