Salvatore Agnelli

Salvatore Agnelli was an Italian composer, born in 1817 in Palermo, who studied at the Naples Conservatory under Giovanni Furno, Nicola Zingarelli and Gaetano Donizetti. Before entering the conservatory, he attended a local music school in his native city, later moving to Naples in 1830 to continue his education. He initially wrote several operas in Naples and Palermo and in 1846 moved to Marseille, where he produced works including La Jacquerie (1849), Léonore de Médicis (1855) and Les Deux Avares (1860). He also composed ballets, sacred music (such as Miserere, Stabat Mater) and a cantata Apothéose de Napoléon I. He died in 1874 in Marseille.

His cantata dedicated to Napoleon I was notably performed in 1856 by three orchestras in the Tuileries Garden in Paris. Several of his operas, including Cromwell, Stefania and Sforza, remained in manuscript, while other works attributed to him include the four-act opera Cromwell (1872), Gli Sforza and Le nozze di un principe. He was also recognized as the author of various comic operas in addition to multiple ballets and sacred compositions.

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