Francesco Bianchi (composer)

Giuseppe Francesco Bianchi (1752 – 27 November 1810) was an Italian opera composer.

Born in Cremona, Lombardy, he studied with Pasquale Cafaro and Niccolò Jommelli,[1] and worked mainly in London, Paris and in all the major Italian operatic centers of Venice, Naples, Rome, Milan, Turin, Florence.

These included the drammi per musica (opera seria) Castore e Polluce (Florence 1779), Arbace and Zemira (both Naples, 1781), Alonso e Cora (Venice, 1786), Calto and La morte di Cesare (both Venice, 1788), and Seleuco, re di Siria (Venice, 1791), and the opera giocosa La villanella rapita (Süttör, 1784).

[3] His widow published parts of his "theoretical work" in the Quarterly Music Review for 1820/1821.

She had a continuing career after Bianchi's death, married William Lacy and they performed for seven years at the court of Oudh.