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Cappella Marciana
The Cappella Marciana is the modern name for the choir and instrumentalists of St Mark's Basilica, Venice, Italy. Overview The masters of the ''cappella ducale'' in the 16th and 17th centuries included many of the most notable composers of the Italian baroque. In addition to providing music at the Basilica, the choir and instrumentalists of the ''cappella'' performed important functions in the Venetian calendar of feasts. Many of the works of the maestri di cappella are preserved in illuminated choir books at the Archivio di Stato di Venezia (ASV), the Biblioteca del Civico Museo Correr and the Biblioteca Nazionale Marciana. History Maestri di cappella File:Adrian Willaert.jpg, Adrian Willaert File:Claudio Monteverdi.jpg, Claudio Monteverdi File:Baldassare Galuppi Memorial.jpeg, Baldassare Galuppi File:DonLorenzoPerosi.jpg, Don Lorenzo Perosi File:Venedig Basilika.jpg, Front of the basilica The list of ''maestri'', musical directors, and organists includes:F. Caffi, ''Storia ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Choir
A choir ( ; also known as a chorale or chorus) is a musical ensemble of singers. Choral music, in turn, is the music written specifically for such an ensemble to perform. Choirs may perform music from the classical music repertoire, which spans from the medieval era to the present, or popular music repertoire. Most choirs are led by a conductor, who leads the performances with arm, hand, and facial gestures. The term ''choir'' is very often applied to groups affiliated with a church (whether or not they actually occupy the quire), whereas a ''chorus'' performs in theatres or concert halls, but this distinction is not rigid. Choirs may sing without instruments, or accompanied by a piano, pipe organ, a small ensemble, or an orchestra. A choir can be a subset of an ensemble; thus one speaks of the "woodwind choir" of an orchestra, or different "choirs" of voices or instruments in a polychoral composition. In typical 18th century to 21st century oratorios and masses, 'choru ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Giovanni Battista Volpe
Giovanni Battista Volpe (–1691) was a Venetian composer for operas during the Baroque period. He was also known as Rovetta and Rovettino. Volpe was an organist at St Mark's Basilica, and succeeded Giovanni Legrenzi as ''maestro di capella'' of the Cappella Marciana from 1690 until 1691. His uncle was Giovanni Rovetta, a composer and former ''maestro di capella''. He collaborated with the librettist Aurelio Aureli on several projects. Volpe composed the music for the opera ''La costanza di Rosmonda'', which premiered in Venice's Teatro Santi Giovanni e Paolo in 1659. He then composed the music for the opera ''Gl'amori d'Apollo e di Leucotoe'', which premiered in the same theatre in 1663. He composed at least one more opera for the theatre. Volpe was the preferred choice of composers ''in absentia'' when changes had to be made to their work. Compositions *''La costanza di Rosmonda'', libretto by Aurelio Aureli Aurelio Aureli (Venice, before 1652 – id. after 1708) was an It ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pietro Magri
Pietro Magri (May 10, 1873 in Vigarano Mainarda – July 24, 1937 in Oropa) was an Italian composer, conductor and organist. Life Magri studied in the seminary of Faenza where he became priest and taught singing from 1889 to 1894. After a short appointment in Venice as Maestro of the Cappella Marciana in 1898 he moved to Bari Bari ( , ; nap, label= Barese, Bare ; lat, Barium) is the capital city of the Metropolitan City of Bari and of the Apulia region, on the Adriatic Sea, southern Italy. It is the second most important economic centre of mainland Southern Italy a .... There he founded the magazine Il Ceciliano. In the next years he moved to Lecce (1910), Molfetta and Vercelli (1912) and finally to Oropa (1919) where he remained until his death in 1937. Compositions *Missa S. Francesco di Sales *Missa defunctorum simplex *Missa in homorem B. Virginis Auxilium christianorum *Missa Joseph fili David Sources *De Angelis, Alberto: L'Italia musicale d'oggi, dizionario dei ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lorenzo Perosi
Monsignor Lorenzo Perosi (21 December 1872 – 12 October 1956) was an Italian composer of sacred music and the only member of the Giovane Scuola who did not write opera. In the late 1890s, while he was still only in his twenties, Perosi was an internationally celebrated composer of sacred music, especially large-scale oratorios. Nobel Prize winner Romain Rolland wrote, "It's not easy to give you an exact idea of how popular Lorenzo Perosi is in his native country." Perosi's fame was not restricted to Europe. A 19 March 1899 ''New York Times'' article entitled "The Genius of Don Perosi" began, "The great and ever-increasing success which has greeted the four new oratorios of Don Lorenzo Perosi has placed this young priest-composer on a pedestal of fame which can only be compared with that which has been accorded of late years to the idolized Pietro Mascagni by his fellow-countrymen." Gianandrea Gavazzeni made the same comparison: "The sudden clamors of applause, at the end of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nicolò Coccon
Nicolò Coccon (10 August 1826 – 4 August 1903) was an Italian composer, conductor, organist and teacher from Venice. Life He was born in Venice on August 10, 1826, and studied with Fabio Ermagora, a pupil of Bonaventura Furlanetto. In 1856 he was appointed organist and vice Maestro of the Cappella Marciana at San Marco's Basilica in Venice. Coccon succeeded Antonio Buzzolla when he retired in 1871. He was teacher of counterpoint at the Liceo Musicale Benedetto Marcello (1882–1897). Coccon left the position of Maestro in 1894 for the conflicts with his vice Giovanni Tebaldini promoter of the Cecilian reform. Compositions Sacred music * 8 Requiem: ** ''Requiem per l'Arciduca l'Austria Federico'' (1850) ** ''Messa di Requiem a quattro con orchestra e soli'' (1879) * 30 Masses ** ''Messa in fa a 4 voci e orchestra'' (1871) ** ''Piccola Messa in re a 4 voci ed orchestra'' (1875) ** 3 ''Messe annuali d'obbligo pel S. Natale'' (1875, 1877, 1879) ** ''Messa per la Cappe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Antonio Buzzolla
Antonio Buzzolla (2 March 1815 – 20 March 1871) was an Italian composer and conductor. A native of Adria, he studied in Venice Venice ( ; it, Venezia ; vec, Venesia or ) is a city in northeastern Italy and the capital of the Veneto Regions of Italy, region. It is built on a group of 118 small islands that are separated by canals and linked by over 400 ..., and later worked with Gaetano Donizetti and Saverio Mercadante. He composed five operas, but was better known in his lifetime for Aria, ariettas and canzonettas in the Venetian dialect. Beginning in 1855 he served as the ' of the Cappella Marciana at St Mark's Basilica in Venice. Buzzolla was one of the composers invited by Giuseppe Verdi to contribute to the ''Messa per Rossini''; he composed the opening movement, the ''Requiem e Kyrie''. He died in Venice in 1871. Compositions Sacred Works * ''Messa a quattro parti e piena orchestra'' * ''Requiem a quattro'' * ''Requiem aeternam e Kyrie'' della ' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Giovanni Agostino Perotti
Giovanni Agostino Perotti ( Vercelli 12 April 1769 – Venice 6 June 1855) was an Italian composer, conductor, teacher and writer. Life Perotti studied music with his brother Giovanni Domenico and later in Bologna with Stanislao Mattei. In 1795 he was in Wien as a keyboard player and in 1798 he moved to London. He returned in Italy in 1801 and settled in Venice where in 1811 he was appointed maestro in the Cappella Marciana The Cappella Marciana is the modern name for the choir and instrumentalists of St Mark's Basilica, Venice, Italy. Overview The masters of the ''cappella ducale'' in the 16th and 17th centuries included many of the most notable composers of the I ..., position that he held till the death in 1855. Perotti was essentially a composer of sacred music. Compositions Sacred music *Abele (orat, P. Metastasio), Bologna, 1794 *La contadina nobile (comic op), Pisa, 1795, lost *Exultate Deo, 4vv, org (Venice, n.d.); *125 sacred works for soloists, chorus and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bonaventura Furlanetto
Bonaventura Furlanetto (27 May 1738 - 6 April 1817) was an Italian composer and music teacher, also known in his lifetime by the nickname Musin. His pupils included Anselmo Marsand and Giovanni Pacini. Life Born in Venice, he spent his childhood in the parish of San Nicolò dei Mendicoli, where he learned music almost completely self-taught except for some lessons from his amateur organist uncle Nicolò Formenti and the priest Giacopo Bolla. At the same time he was also taught philosophy and literature by Jesuits. He then embarked on an ecclesiastical career, but declined to be ordained. In 1762 he produced a 'Laudate Dominum', probably his earliest (or at least earliest surviving) work. The following year he produced the religious composition ''La sposa de' sacri cantici'', produced at the oratory of San Filippo Neri in Venice in 1767, 1773 and 1784. His oratorio ''Giubilo celeste al giungervi della sant'anima'' was equally successful, being produced at the Basilica dei Santi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ferdinando Bertoni
Ferdinando Bertoni (15 August 1725 – 1 December 1813) was an Italian composer and organist. Early years He was born in Salò, and began his music studies in Brescia, not far from his birthplace. Around 1740 he went to Bologna, where he studied until 1745 with the famous music theorist Giovanni Battista Martini. Career Then he moved to Venice, where in 1752 he was appointed as first organist at San Marco. From 1755 to 1777 he was choirmaster at the Ospedale dei Mendicanti, also in Venice. In the period 1778–1783 he was in London, where he composed operas for the King's Theatre. Back to Venice in 1784, he succeeded Baldassare Galuppi in 1785 as Kapellmeister of San Marco and preserved this position until his retirement in 1808. Works A prolific writer of church music, Bertoni also composed 70 operas which fell into oblivion, except ''Orfeo'' (Venice, Teatro San Benedetto, 1776), based on the same libretto by Ranieri de' Calzabigi for the work of Christoph Willibald Gluck, ' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Baldassarre Galuppi
Baldassare Galuppi (18 October 17063 January 1785) was an Italian composer, born on the island of Burano in the Venetian Republic. He belonged to a generation of composers, including Johann Adolph Hasse, Giovanni Battista Sammartini, and C. P. E. Bach, whose works are emblematic of the prevailing galant music that developed in Europe throughout the 18th century. He achieved international success, spending periods of his career in Vienna, London and Saint Petersburg, but his main base remained Venice, where he held a succession of leading appointments. In his early career Galuppi made a modest success in '' opera seria'', but from the 1740s, together with the playwright and librettist Carlo Goldoni, he became famous throughout Europe for his comic operas in the new '' dramma giocoso'' style. To the succeeding generation of composers, he was known as "the father of comic opera". Some of his mature ''opere serie'', for which his librettists included the poet and dramatist ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Giacomo Giuseppe Saratelli
Giacomo Giuseppe Saratelli (1682-1762) was an Italian organist, composer and maestro di cappella. Life He was born and raised in Bologna, where he premiered his first work (an oratorio) in 1699 and was trained as an organist. He moved to Padua in 1714 and in 1736 succeeded Antonio Lotti as chief organist at St Mark's Basilica in Venice. In 1740 he became Vice Maestro of the Cappella Marciana. From 1732 to 1739 he was choirmaster of Venice's Ospedale dei Mendicanti, one of the era's most prestigious music schools. In 1747 he became Maestro di Cappella at St Mark's, a post he held until his death in Venice in 1762. Works Sacred music * 150 psalm settings, including: ** ''Laudate pueri'' (Psalm 112), for choir, orchestra and basso continuo ** ''Ad Dominum cum tribularer'' (Psalm 119) ** ''Levavi oculos meos'' (Psalm 120) ** ''Ad te levavi oculos meos'' (Psalm 122) ** ''Nisi quia Dominus'' (Psalm 123) ** ''Qui confidunt'' (Psalm 124) * Oratorios: ** ''La regina Ester'' (''Que ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Antonio Pollarolo
Antonio Giovanni Pollarolo (12 November 1676 — 30 May 1746) was an Italian composer of the Baroque period, keyboardist, and maestro di cappella at St Mark's Basilica in Venice. As a composer he is primarily remembered for his operas, although his composition output also included cantatas, oratorios, and motets. A precursor to 19th century bel canto opera composers like Gioachino Rossini and Gaetano Donizetti, his vocal writing was written in a virtuosic manner characterized by florid coloratura passages, wide vocal range, lively tempos, and syncopated rhythms. Life and career Born in Brescia into the Pollarolo family of musicians, Antonio's father was the opera composer and organist Carlo Francesco Pollarolo. He was trained as a musician by his father and Antonio Lotti. At the age of 13 he moved with his family to Venice when his father was appointed vicemaestro di cappella at St Mark's Basilica. Antonio occasionally substituted for his father in this position, beginning in 170 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
