Luigi Ricci-Stolz

Luigi Ricci-Stolz , born Luigi Stolz ( Trieste , 1852 - Milan , 10 February 1906 ), was an Italian musician and composer.

Luigi Stolz, famously Luigino, was the son of the Neapolitan composer Luigi Ricci and his lover, the Czech opera soprano Francesca "Fanny" Stolz (1826-1900), sister of the most famous soprano Teresa Stolz , Among the favorite singers of Giuseppe Verdi . His sister-in-law, as well as cousin, was the soprano Lella Ricci , born of her father's marriage with Francesca's sister, Ludmilla "Lidia" Stolz, also soprano.

Coming from a family particularly sensitive to music and opera art, Louis learned the first rudiments in this sense from his uncle Federico Ricci, he was a composer, since his father died when Luigino was just seven years old. In 1902 , at the death of wealthy aunt Teresa, he inherited the goods; Her sister Lella died in 1871 at only 21 years of age because of an abortion for a pregnancy threatening to compromise her career and he was thus found the only heir to a family of wealthy artists who, thanks to Verdi's work, Had reached great fame in the late nineteenth century.

In his work as a musician and composer, he has performed a number of works , in addition to playing piano and organ and composing sacred music , songs and string quartets.

He died in Milan in 1906 at the age of 54, at the resting place for musicians wanted by Giuseppe Verdi .

It rests at the Monumental Cemetery in Milan , in the tomb 254 of the Riparto VII.

Works:

• Frosina - Genoa , 1870
• Cola di Rienzo - The La Fenice Theater in Venice , 1880
• A curious accident - Venice, 1880
• Woman Ines - Piacenza , 1885
• The Devil's Tail - Turin , 1885
• Don Quixote (from Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes ) - Venice, 1887
• The forbidden fruit - Barcelona , 1888
• Immaculate Rome (book of GA Costanzo) - Rome , after 1888

Links

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luigi_Ricci-Stolz
• https://www.sondz.com/artist/Luigi-Ricci-Stolz?gid=55e11c59-2276-45...