Tarchi, Angelo (c. 1760–1814)

Italian composer. He studied at the Pietà dei Turchini Conservatory at Naples with Fago and Sala. For La Scala, Milan, he wrote Ademira (1783), Ariarte (1786), Il conte di Saldagna (1787), Adrasto (1792), and Le danaidi (1794). He attempted to re-write the last two acts of Mozart's Le nozze di Figaro/The Marriage of Figaro. In 1789 he visited London and wrote the operas Il disertore and La generosità d'Alessandro for the King's Theatre. Later he lived in Paris.

Works over 40 Italian and seven French operas.