CILEA, Francesco
b Palmi, Italy, 26 July 1866
d Varezza, 20 November 1950, aged eighty-four

He studied piano at the Naples Conservatory and became professor of composition at the Reale Instituto Musicale in Florence. He wrote little after his most popular opera Adriana Lecouvreur, spending most of his time in a succession of professorial appointments.

1886 (20)

Piano Trio

1887 (21)

Suite for orchestra

1889 (23)

Etna, opera

1892 (26)

La Tilda, opera

1894 (28)

Cello Sonata

1897 (31)

L'Arlesiana, opera

1902 (36)

Adriana Lecouvreur, opera

1907 (41)

Gloria, opera

1913 (47)

Il Canto della vita, for voice, chorus and orchestra

1931 (65)

Suite for orchestra