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1755 In Music
Events *In Britain, William Boyce is appointed Master of the King's Musick. *After a tour of Ireland fraught with disagreements, Thomas Arne and his wife, the soprano Cecilia Young, agree to separate. * Ferdinando Bertoni becomes choirmaster at the Ospedale dei Mendicanti in Venice. Published popular music * James Oswald – 8''Airs for the Spring/Summer/Autumn/Winter'', for violin or flute and basso continuo (London) *Mme Papavoine – ''Nous voici donc au jour de l'an. Étrennes'' (Paris) Classical music * Charles Avison – ''Eight Concertos'', Op. 4 (London) *Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach **Harpsichord Concerto in F major, H.443 Wq. 33 **Keyboard Concerto in G major, H.444 Wq. 34 **Flute Concerto in G major, H.445 Wq. 169 **Trio Sonata in B-flat major, H.587 Wq. 159 **Symphony in D major, H.651 Wq. 176 *Gaspard Fritz – 6 Violin Sonatas (published in Paris as ''Sei sonate'', Op. 3, in 1756) *Francesco Geminiani – ''Six Concertos'', Op. 2, second edition, corrected and enlar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Boyce (composer)
William Boyce (baptised 11 September 1711 – 7 February 1779) was an English composer and organist. Like Beethoven later on, he became deaf but continued to compose. He knew Handel, Arne, Gluck, Bach, Abel, and a very young Mozart all of whom respected his work. Life Boyce was born in London, at Joiners Hall, then in Lower Thames Street, to John Boyce, at the time a joiner and cabinet-maker, and beadle of the Worshipful Company of Joiners and Ceilers, and his wife Elizabeth Cordwell. He was baptised on 11 September 1711 and was admitted by his father as a choirboy at St Paul's Cathedral in 1719. After his voice broke in 1727, he studied music with Maurice Greene.Bruce (2005) His first professional appointment came in 1734 when he was employed as an organist at the Oxford Chapel in central London. He went on to take a number of similar posts before being appointed Master of the King's Musick in 1757 (he had applied for the post on the death of Maurice Greene in 1755) and beco ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Johann Friedrich Agricola
Johann Friedrich Agricola (4 January 1720 – 2 December 1774) was a German composer, organist, singer, pedagogue, and writer on music. He sometimes wrote under the pseudonym Flavio Anicio Olibrio. Biography Agricola was born in Dobitschen, Thuringia. Leipzig While a student of law at Leipzig (1738–41) he studied music under Johann Sebastian Bach.Philipp Spitta. '' Johann Sebastian Bach: His Work and Influence on the Music of Germany, 1685–1750''. Novello & Co. 1899III, p. 243/ref> Berlin In 1741 Agricola went to Berlin, where he studied musical composition under Johann Joachim Quantz. He was soon generally recognized as one of the most skillful organists of his time. The success of his comic opera, ''Il filosofo convinto in amore'', performed at Potsdam in 1750, led to an appointment as court composer to Frederick the Great. In 1759, on the death of Carl Heinrich Graun, he was appointed conductor of the royal orchestra. He married the noted court operatic soprano Benede ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marianus Königsperger
Marianus Königsperger (also called Johann Erhard Königsberger) born 2 December 1708 in Roding ( Oberpfalz); and died 9 October 1769 in the Prüfening Abbey at Regensburg) was a German composer, organist and Catholic Monk of the Benedictine Order. Works * Vocal music ** 33 ''Cantilenae sacrae'' for voices, 2 Violins and Organ op. 1, Lotter, Augsburg 1733 ** 10 ''Missae solemnes'' and 2 ''Missae pastoritiae'' such as 1 ''Veni Sancte Spiritus'' op. 1, Lang, Regensburg 1740 ** 8 ''Offertories'' op. 2, Lang, Regensburg 1741 ** 6 '' Miserere'' and 2 ''Stabat mater'' op. 3, Klaffschenkel, Augsburg 1743 ** 6 ''Missae'' op. 4, Lotter, Augsburg 1743 ** 4 ''Vespern'' and 4 marianische ''Antiphonen'' op. 5, Klaffschenkel, Augsburg 1743 ** 6 ''Missae rurales'' and 2 ''Requiem'' for 2 Voices and Basso continuo, other Strings and Instruments ad libitum op. 6, Klaffschenkel, Augsburg 1744 ** 6 solenne ''Litaneien'' op. 7, Klaffschenkel, Augsburg 1744 ** 17 Offertorien op. 8, Lotter, Augsburg ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1755 Lisbon Earthquake
The 1755 Lisbon earthquake, also known as the Great Lisbon earthquake, impacted Portugal, the Iberian Peninsula, and Northwest Africa on the morning of Saturday, 1 November, Feast of All Saints, at around 09:40 local time. In combination with subsequent fires and a tsunami, the earthquake almost completely destroyed Lisbon and adjoining areas. Seismologists estimate the Lisbon earthquake had a magnitude of 7.7 or greater on the moment magnitude scale, with its epicenter in the Atlantic Ocean about west-southwest of Cape St. Vincent and about southwest of Lisbon. Chronologically, it was the third known large scale earthquake to hit the city (following those of 1321 and 1531). Estimates place the death toll in Lisbon at between 12,000 and 50,000 people, making it one of the deadliest earthquakes in history. The earthquake accentuated political tensions in Portugal and profoundly disrupted the Portuguese Empire. The event was widely discussed and dwelt upon by European ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Antigono (Mazzoni)
''Antigono'' is a 1755 setting by Antonio Maria Mazzoni of the libretto by Pietro Metastasio. It was in rehearsal as the third opera for Lisbon's Ópera do Tejo when the Lisbon earthquake struck on 1 November. The opera was not performed until 2011. Recording *''Antigono'' Michael Spyres (Antigono), G. McGreevy (Berenice), P. Lucciarini (Demetrio), A. Quintans (Ismene), M. Hinojosa Montenegro (Clearco), M. Oro (Alessandro); Divino Sospiro; Enrico Onofri Enrico Onofri (born 1 April 1967) is an Italian violinist and conductor specialising in Baroque music. Career Born in Ravenna, Onofri is often invited to participate in the productions of ensembles such as La Capella Reial de Catalunya conduct ... Recorded ‘live’ in the Grande Auditorium of Centro Cultural de Belem, Lisbon, Portugal, 21–22 June 2011; Dynamic CDS 7686/1-3; 3CD References {{reflist Operas ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Antonio Maria Mazzoni
Antonio Maria Mazzoni (4 January 1717 – 8 December 1785) was an Italian composer.Mozart Briefe und Aufzeichnungen: Gesamtausgabe Wilhelm A. Bauer, Leopold Mozart - 1971 -"„Maestro Mazzoni": Antonio Maria Mazzoni (1717 bis 1785), Schüler Predieris ( vgl. zu Z. 8), seit 1759 Domkapellmeister, seit 1736 Mitglied der Accademia Filarmonica, deren „Principe" er fünfmal war." Born in Milan, the son of a clockmaker, Mazzoni first gained an interest in music at the age of six, and at age fifteen, was sent to study under Swiss German musician and composer, Johann von Griesemer, under who he studied under for three years until 1735. In 1735, he moved to Paris, where he spent the next five years working in multiple high-profile theatres, steadily honing his craft, especially under the mentorship of one particular, Jacques Saint-Antonine before moving to Great Britain, where he spent three years composing music for the King at the time, George II before returning to Milan in 1743. He ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Niccolò Jommelli
Niccolò Jommelli (; 10 September 1714 – 25 August 1774) was an Italian composer of the Neapolitan School. Along with other composers mainly in the Holy Roman Empire and France, he was responsible for certain operatic reforms including reducing ornateness of style and the primacy of star singers somewhat. Biographical information Early life Jommelli was born to Francesco Antonio Jommelli and Margarita Cristiano in Aversa, a town some north of Naples. He had one brother, Ignazio, who became a Dominican friar and was of some help to him in his elder years, and three sisters. His father was a prosperous linen merchant, who entrusted him for musical instruction to Canon Muzzillo, the director of the choir of Aversa Cathedral. When this proved successful, he was enrolled in 1725 at the Conservatorio di Santo Onofrio a Capuana in Naples, where he studied under Ignazio Prota alongside Tomaso Prota and Francesco Feo. Three years later he was transferred to the Conserva ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Johann Adolf Hasse
Johann Adolph Hasse (baptised 25 March 1699 – 16 December 1783) was an 18th-century German composer, singer and teacher of music. Immensely popular in his time, Hasse was best known for his prolific operatic output, though he also composed a considerable quantity of sacred music. Married to soprano Faustina Bordoni and a friend of librettist Pietro Metastasio, whose libretti he frequently set, Hasse was a pivotal figure in the development of ''opera seria'' and 18th-century music. Early career Hasse was baptised in Bergedorf near Hamburg where his family had been church organists for three generations. His career began in singing when he joined the Hamburg Oper am Gänsemarkt in 1718 as a tenor. In 1719 he obtained a singing post at the court of Brunswick, where in 1721 his first opera, ''Antioco'', was performed; Hasse himself sang in the production. He is thought to have left Germany during 1722. During the 1720s he lived mostly in Naples, dwelling there for six or seven y ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frederick The Great
Frederick II (german: Friedrich II.; 24 January 171217 August 1786) was King in Prussia from 1740 until 1772, and King of Prussia from 1772 until his death in 1786. His most significant accomplishments include his military successes in the Silesian wars, his re-organisation of the Prussian Army, the First Partition of Poland, and his patronage of the arts and the Enlightenment. Frederick was the last Hohenzollern monarch titled King in Prussia, declaring himself King of Prussia after annexing Polish Prussia from the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth in 1772. Prussia greatly increased its territories and became a major military power in Europe under his rule. He became known as Frederick the Great (german: links=no, Friedrich der Große) and was nicknamed "Old Fritz" (german: links=no, "Der Alte Fritz"). In his youth, Frederick was more interested in music and philosophy than in the art of war, which led to clashes with his authoritarian father, Frederick William I of Prussia. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Montezuma (Graun)
''Montezuma'' is an opera seria in three acts by the German composer Carl Heinrich Graun. The libretto was written in French by Graun's patron, Frederick the Great, the King of Prussia, and turned into an Italian libretto by Giampetro Tagliazucchi. The work's plot concerns Hernán Cortés's Spanish conquest of Mexico, conquest of Mexico and the defeat of the Aztec emperor Moctezuma II, Montezuma. It was first performed at the Berlin State Opera#History, Königliches Opernhaus (Royal court opera) in Berlin on 6 January 1755. The title role was originally performed by a castrato, but today is performed by either a male countertenor or a female mezzo-soprano. The seven roles are Erissena (s), Eupaforice (s), Montezuma (ms), Tezeuco (alto), Pilpatoè (s), Narvès (t) and Cortès (b). In the original production, Giovanni Cinzio Tedeschi, a musico who sang under the stage name Amadori, and whose tenure in Berlin lasted only about a year, created the role of Montezuma. Giovanna Astrua por ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
La Diavolessa
''La diavolessa'' (''The She-devil'') is an opera (dramma giocoso) in 3 acts by Baldassare Galuppi. The Italian-language libretto was by Carlo Goldoni. It premiered in November 1755 at the Teatro San Samuele, Venice. Act 2 Finale has been indicated as "the most notable section of the opera", thanks to its capacity "to evoke mysterious powers through musical imageries",Monson, 1992 with "orchestral accompaniment continuous and rhythmically assertive".Mellace, 1996 Arias have been judged "lively and with charming melodic ideas". Roles Synopsis Act 1 Giannino and Dorina are in love, but she wants no longer marry Giannino because he is poor. (Duet: ''Ho risolto, voglio andar'' / "I have decided, I want to go") Falco proposes a way to gain some money. Poppone is a credulous man who is always in search for treasures: deceiving him will be very easy. Falco is sure that the marriage between Giannino and Dorina will take place (Cavatina a 3: ''Se non fossi maritato'' / "If I were not ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
