Giacomo Gotifredo Ferrari (baptised 2 April 1763 – 2 December 1842)[1] was born in Rovereto in the Italian Alps, and was an Italiancomposer and singing teacher who spent most of his career in France and England. Four of his operas, I due svizzeri, II Rinaldo d'Asti, L'eroina di Raab, and Lo sbaglio fortunato premiered in the King's Theatre, London. He also composed two ballets, a Mass, and numerous piano sonatas.
^Di Marco (1996) and Slonimsky and Kuhn (2001) give only the date of baptism. A memorial plaque in Rovereto, Ferrari's birthplace, gives his year of birth as 1763 (see Lapide Storiche Rovereto, Gotifredo Ferrari). Two older sources, Gehring (1900) p. 513 and Saint-Foix (1939) p. 455, give the unlikely year of birth as 1759.
Ferrari, Giacomo Gotifredo (1830). Aneddoti piacevoli ed interessanti occorsi nella vita di Giacomo Gotifredo Ferrari da Roveredo (facs. ed. R. Vettori, Rovereto 1992).