Bonaventura Furlanetto

Bonaventura Furlanetto (27 May 1738 - 6 April 1817) was an Italian composer and music teacher, also known in his lifetime by the nickname Musin. His pupils included Anselmo Marsand and Giovanni Pacini.

Life Born in Venice, he spent his childhood in the parish of San Nicolò dei Mendicoli, where he learned music almost completely self-taught except for some lessons from his amateur organist uncle Nicolò Formenti and the priest Giacopo Bolla. At the same time he was also taught philosophy and literature by Jesuits. He then embarked on an ecclesiastical career, but declined to be ordained. Dies extrema mundi (1780) David Goliath triumphator (1780) Jonathas (1781) Salomon rex Israel electus (1782) Aurea statua a rege Nabucodonosor erecta vel pueri Hebraei in fornace ardentis ignis (1783) Prudens Abiga (1784) Moyses ad Rubum (1785) Absalonis rebellio (1785) Sisara (1786) Abraham et Isach (1786) De solemni Baltassar convivio (1787) Judith triumphans (1787) De solemni nuptiae in domum Lebani (1788) Triumphus Jephte (1789) Bethulia liberata (based on Betulia liberata by Pietro Metastasio, 1790) Gedeon (1792) De filio prodigo (1800) Primum fatale homicidium (1800) Il trionfo di Iefte (1801) Tabia (attribution doubtful)

Cantatas Melior fiducia vos ergo (for soprano, contralto and orchestra, 1775) Quisnam felicior me? (for soprano, contralto and orchestra, 1780) In coelo resplendent (for soprano, contralto and orchestra, 1785) Alma letitie dies (for soprano, contralto and orchestra, 1789) Cantata duodecima (for soprano, contralto and orchestra, 1791) Nuptie Rachelis (for soprano, contralto and orchestra, 1795) Musica per le tre ore dell'agonia di Nostro Signore Gesù Cristo (for 2 tenors, bass and cello, 1801) Veritas de terra orta est (for 5 voices, 1810) Sponsia mantis caro (for 5 cori and 5 orchestras) Sumo furis regulia venus dies jucundum (for 2 choirs and 2 orchestras) Fugitava quis ploras anima (for soprano, contralto and orchestra) Vitae calamitates (for soprano, contralto e orchestra, perhaps an adaptation of Fugitava)