Fedele Fenaroli

Fedele Fenaroli (25 April 1730, Lanciano – 1 January 1818, Naples) was an Italian composer and music educator.

[1] Fenaroli entered the Conservatorio di Santa Maria di Loreto, one of the music conservatories of Naples, becoming a pupil of Francesco Durante.

Among his students were many celebrated Italian composers, such as Domenico Cimarosa, Niccolò Antonio Zingarelli, and Saverio Mercadante.

Fenaroli wrote several treatises on music which were widely used during the nineteenth century.

As a composer, he wrote mainly sacred music.