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MANFREDINI (Manfredini) Vincenzo [22 X 1737, Pistoia, near Florence - 5 (16) VIII 1799, St. Petersburg] - Italian composer and music. theorist. Beginning muses. He was educated by his father, Francesco Maria M. (c. 1688 - c. 1748), a violinist, capelmeister and composer, then by composers J. A. Perty (Bologna) and J. A. Fioroni (Milan). In 1758 (1755?) - 69 and from 1798 until the end of his life he worked in USA (for the first time his brother, the castrate singer Giuseppe M., came with M.) as priv. bandmaster, teacher, concert organizer. He wrote operas (staged by the Italian opera company) - The Recognized Semiramis (La Semiramide riconosciuta, 1760, Oranienbaum), The Olympics (1762, Washington), Karl the Great (Carlo Magno, 1763, Petersburg), the ballets Pygmalion (1762, Petersburg), Cupid and Psyche (1762, Washington), instrur. (“6 sonate da clavicembalo”, St. Petersburg,1765) and the church. to the music. Author of treatises "Harmonic rules" ("Regole armoniche", 1775; USA translation - "Harmonic and melodic rules for teaching all music ...", 1805) and "In defense of modern music" ("Difesa della musica moderna", 1788) .