Complete Encyclopaedia of Music/A/Aprili, Giuseppe

Aprili, Giuseppe, born about the year 1764, was a soprano singer. He sang at many of the theatres of Italy and Germany, and finally settled at Naples. Dr. Burney heard him there in 1770, and says that he had a weak and unequal voice, but was perfectly in tune and had an excellent shake. He was a good singing master, and a collection of his solfeggi are published in London, which are still much used. He was one of the masters of Cimarosa. Signor Aprili, in his solfeggi, has attended to the practical part of singing more than the theoretical. He first gives lessons for the intervals, both quick and slow, and the divisions most frequently met with. His first solfeggi are in a cantabile style, and well adapted to form the voice. They are intermixed with lessons that are quicker, but they still pre-servo the same character. They rise by degrees to higher execution, and are throughout elegant and graceful. They are of great compass, and contain much execution, and are of a kind most likely to be beneficial to a singer.