Mancinelli, Luigi (1848–1921)

Italian conductor and composer. He studied at Florence, including the cello, and joined the orchestra at the Teatro della Pergola there. In 1874 he went to the Teatro Apollo in Rome, where he deputized for a conductor so successfully that he made operatic conducting his future career. From 1876 his name appears as a composer of incidental music, and in 1884 he produced his first opera. From 1881 to 1886 he was director of the Liceo Musicale at Bologna, as well as maestro di cappella at San Petronio and conductor of the Teatro Comunale there. He organized orchestral and chamber music. Later he appeared as a conductor in London, Madrid, and New York. From 1906 to 1912 he was principal conductor at the Teatro Colón in Buenos Aires.

Works operas Isora di Provenza (1884), Ero e Leandro (1896), Paolo e Francesca (after Dante, 1907), Tizianello, Sogno di una notte d'estate (after Shakespeare, 1915–17); incidental music to Pietro Cossa's Messalina and Cleopatra; oratorio Isaias (1887); cantata St Agnes (1905); two masses.