Ricci, Federico (1809–1877)

Italian composer. He studied with Vincenzo Bellini and Zingarelli at the Naples Conservatory. In 1835 he produced his first opera with his brother Luigi Ricci at Naples and the first of his own at Venice. After several stage successes he was music director at the Imperial theatres in St Petersburg 1853–69.

Works Opera Monsieur de Chalumeaux (1835), La prigione d'Edimburgo (on Scott's Heart of Midlothian, 1838), Un duello sotto Richelieu (1839), Luigi Rolla e Michelangelo (1841), Corrado d'Altamura, Vallombra, Isabella de' Medici (1845), Estella di Murcia (1846), Griselda, I due ritratti, Il marito e l'amante (1852), Il paniere d'amore, Una Folie à Rome, Le Docteur rose, and four others in collaboration with Luigi Ricci.

Other two Masses; cantata for the marriage of Victor Emmanuel; songs.