Biography
Francesco Lucio, also known as Luccio or Luzzo (circa 1628 - Venice , September 1, 1658), was an Italian composer and organist.
Natively perhaps of Conegliano , he moved to Venice in his youth, where he was a pupil of Giovanni Antonio Rigatti , singing teacher of the Hospital of the Incurable. He stayed in the city for the rest of his life. In 1645 he became an organist of the Church of San Martino , a position he held until 1652 and always from the same year as an organist in some Venetian convents during special celebrations. On January 20, 1649, he debuted as an opera player with his first drama on the verses of Jacinto Andrea Cicognini , L'Orontea ; On October 25, he probably took his master's post at the Venetian hospital. At the same time he was also active as a composer for Pius Pietà Hospital . In the last year of his life he was a group leader of active musicians at the San Martino convent in Burano .
Lucio was mainly an opera composer. His most famous work is certainly L'Orontea , traditionally attributed to Antonio Cesti. Much of this operatic work, which has lost its original score, is present in a collection of arias of 1655. Lucio's arias in both style and form are similar to those of the coevo and best known Francesco Cavalli , but the music of Lucio is characterized by melodic angular lines and is more prone to chromatic harmony.
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