Fedele Fenaroli continued his musical education in Naples, where he entered the Conservatorio di Santa Maria di Loreto and became a pupil of Francesco Durante. During this period, Durante was an influential teacher and, between 1742 and 1745, served as director of the same conservatory, providing the institutional setting in which Fenaroli studied under him.
This teacher–student relationship placed Fenaroli within the Neapolitan School tradition shaped by Durante, whose rigorous contrapuntal training strongly influenced Fenaroli’s later work as a composer and pedagogue.
