Feo, Francesco (1691-1761)

Italian composer. He was a pupil of Gizzi and Fago at the Conservatorio della Pietà della Turchini in Naples, and later of Pitoni in Rome. He produced his first opera, L'amor tirannico, in Naples in 1713. He was maestro di cappella of the Conservatorio St Onofrio 1723-28 and of the Conservatorio dei Poveri 1739-43. Niccolò Jommelli and Giovanni Pergolesi were among his pupils.

Works Opera Siface (1723), Ipermestra, Arianna (1728), Andromaca (1730), Arsace (1740), and others.

Other Masses and other church music.