Blangini, (Giuseppe Marco Maria) Felice (1781–1841)

Italian tenor and composer. He sang at Turin Cathedral as a child and learnt music there. In 1799 he went to Paris, where he finished an opera left incomplete by P A D Della Maria and produced one of his own. In 1809 he was called to Kassel as musical director to King Jérôme, but he returned to Paris in 1814 and two years later became professor of singing at the Conservatory.

Works over 30 operas, for example La Fausse Duègne (finished by him), Chimère et réalité/Dream and Reality (1803), Nephtali, ou Les Ammonites (1806), Encore un tour de Caliphe, Inez de Castro (1810), Les Fêtes lacédémoniennes (1807), Le Sacrifice d'Abraham (1810); contributed to La Marquise de Brinvilliers; cantata Die letzten Augenblicke Werthers (after Goethe); 174 songs.