Fedele Fenaroli

{{Short description|Italian composer and teacher (1730–1818)}}

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Fedele Fenaroli (25 April 1730, Lanciano – 1 January 1818, Naples) was an Italian composer and music educator.{{Cite Grove|last=Gmeinwieser |first=Siegfried |date=2001 |title=Fenaroli, Fedele |id=09461|doi=10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.article.09461}} Fenaroli entered the Conservatorio di Santa Maria di Loreto, one of the music conservatories of Naples, becoming a pupil of Francesco Durante. In 1762 he was appointed {{lang|it|maestro di cappella}}. Among his students were many celebrated Italian composers, such as Domenico Cimarosa, Niccolò Antonio Zingarelli, and Saverio Mercadante. Giuseppe Verdi was a second-generation student, as his teacher, {{ill|Vincenzo Lavigna|it}}, was a student of Fenaroli. Fenaroli wrote several treatises on music which were widely used during the nineteenth century. As a composer, he wrote mainly sacred music.