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Logroscino

1911 Encyclopedia Britannica

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(or Lo GxoscINO), Nicola (1700 ?-1763 ?), Italian musical composer, was born at Naples and was a pupil of Durante. In 1738 he collaborated with Leo and others in the hasty production of Demetrio; in the autumn of the same year he produced a comic opera L'inganno per inganno, the first of a long series of comic operas, the success of which won him the name of "it Dio dell' opera buffa." He went to Palermo, probably in 1747, as a teacher of counterpoint; as an opera composer he is last heard of in 1760, and is supposed to have died about 1763. Logroscino has been credited with the invention of the concerted operatic finale, but as far as can be seen from the score of Il Governatore and the few remaining fragments of other operas, his finales show no advance upon those of Leo. As a musical humorist, however, he deserves remembrance, and may justly be classed alongside of Rossini.

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Chisholm, Hugh, General Editor. Entry for 'Logroscino'. 1911 Encyclopedia Britanica. https://www.studylight.org/​encyclopedias/​eng/​bri/​l/logroscino.html. 1910.
 
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