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List Of Compositions By Simon Mayr
This is a selective list of the works of the German composer Simon Mayr (1763–1845) who is credited with a total of some 600 compositions, including 70 operas. Operas See List of operas by Simon Mayr Other secular vocal music Cantatas *''Femio, ossia La musica custode della fede maritale'', cantata for three voices and orchestra, text by Francesco Boaretti, Venice, 1791 *''Ero'', cantata for voice and orchestra, text by Giuseppe Foppa, Venice, 1793 *''Temira e Ariostoo'', cantata for four voices and orchestra, Venice, 1795 *''Apelle e Campase'', Venice, 1795 (lost) *''Le sventure di Leandro'', cantata for one voice, chorus and orchestra, text by Comtesse Velo, Vicenza, 1797 *''Traiano all'Eufrate'', cantata for three voices, chorus and orchestra, text by Angelo Anelli, Milan, 1807 *''Alcide al bivio'', cantata for voices and orchestra, Bergamo, 1809 *''Cantata per la morte di Haydn'', cantata for tenor, voices and orchestra, Bergamo, 1809 *''Cantata per le nozze di Napol ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Giuseppe Foppa
Giuseppe Maria Foppa (Venice, 12 July 1760 – Venice, 1 March 1845) was an Italian librettist. He wrote around 150 libretti, mainly for comic operas, as well as Latin oratorio texts and his memoirs.Richard Osborne ''Rossini'' 2007 0199724407 p.368 "Foppa, Giuseppe (1760–1845), librettist. An archivist and government official, he wrote some 150 opera libretti. A master of the one-act farsa popular in Venice from the early 1790s, he drew his material from French and Neapolitan sources," Librettos * ''Romeo and Juliet'', for Nicola Antonio Zingarelli *''L'inganno felice'', ''La scala di seta'', ''Il signor Bruschino'' and ''Sigismondo'' (1814) for Gioachino Rossini *''Gli artigiani'', 1795 for Pasquale Anfossi *''L'intrigo della lettera'' 1797, and several oratorios for Simone Mayr *''Lo spazzacamino principe'' 1794, and ''Le donne cambiate'' 1797 for Marcos António Portugal *''Teresa e Claudio'', 1801 for Giuseppe Farinelli *'' Le metamorfosi di Pasquale'', 1802 for Gaspa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Felice Romani
Giuseppe Felice Romani (31 January 178828 January 1865) was an Italian poet and scholar of literature and mythology who wrote many librettos for the opera composers Donizetti and Bellini. Romani was considered the finest Italian librettist between Metastasio and Boito.Branca, Emilia (1882). ''Felice Romani ed i più riputati maestri di musica del suo tempo''Roccatagliati, Alessandro (1996). ''Felice Romani librettista'', Quaderni di Musica, Lucca, Italy – Biography Born Giuseppe Felice Romani to a bourgeois family in Genoa, he studied law and literature in Pisa and Genoa.Roccatagliati, Allesandro (2001). "Romani, (Giuseppe) Felice" in ''The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians'', 2nd edition. London: Macmillan. (hardcover). (eBook). At the University of Genoa he translated French literature and, with a colleague, prepared a six-volume dictionary of mythology and antiquities, including the history of the Celts in Italy. Romani's expertise in French and antiquity is ref ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Atalia (Mayr)
''Atalia'' is an Italian-language oratorio by Simon Mayr Johann(es) Simon Mayr (also spelled Majer, Mayer, Maier), also known in Italian as Giovanni Simone Mayr or Simone Mayr (14 June 1763 – 2 December 1845), was a German composer. His music reflects the transition from the Classical to the ... to a libretto by Felice Romani, premiered in Naples, 1822.Helen M. Greenwald ''The Oxford Handbook of Opera'' 2014 p.733 0199714843 "To Mayr, Rossini's Mosè, Donizetti's Il diluvio universale, and his own Atalia all evidently count as “oratorios” because they are religiously sincere (Mayr 1843: 74r). When using the term “oratorio” in these cases, both Mayr and Rossini clearly ." Recordings * ''Atalía'' - Atalia: Rebecca Martin, Abner: Jacek Janiszewski, Gioas: Maria Jette, Giocada: Thomas Cooley, Matan: James Taylor; Simon Mayr Chor Ingolstadt, Neue Düsseldorfer Hofmusik, Franz Hauk (live 20 September 2003) Guild References {{Authority control Oratorios by S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bartolomeo Merelli
Bartolomeo Merelli (19 May 1794 – 10 April 1879Warrack & West 1997, p. 463.) was an Italian impresario and librettist, best known as the manager of the La Scala Milan opera house between 1829 and 1850, and for his support for the young Giuseppe Verdi. Early life and theatrical agency Merelli was born in Bergamo and studied composition there with Simon Mayr. (Gaetano Donizetti was in the same class as Merelli.) He moved to Milan around 1812 and worked there as a theatrical agent, at the same time writing a number of librettos for Mayr, Donizetti, Nicola Vaccai and other composers.Rosselli 1992, pp. 340–341. He set up his own agency in 1826 and managed seasons in Varese, Como and Cremona between 1830 and 1835, and was joint lessee (with Carlo Balochino) of the Theater am Kärntnertor in Vienna from 1836 to 1848. La Scala From 1829 to 1850, Merelli managed La Scala, initially in partnership with others, who included Domenico Barbaia, and then by himself from 1835. During ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Samuele (Mayr)
''Samuele'' is an 1821 Italian-language oratorio by Simon Mayr to a libretto by Bartolomeo Merelli Bartolomeo Merelli (19 May 1794 – 10 April 1879Warrack & West 1997, p. 463.) was an Italian impresario and librettist, best known as the manager of the La Scala Milan opera house between 1829 and 1850, and for his support for the young Gi .... It was performed on 2 June 1821 in Bergamo's Congregazione della Carità by pupils of the Lezioni caritatevoli to welcome the arrival of the new bishop Pietro Mola. Recordings * ''Samuele'' Franz Hauk 2CDs Naxos References {{Authority control 1821 compositions[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Florence
Florence ( ; it, Firenze ) is a city in Central Italy and the capital city of the Tuscany region. It is the most populated city in Tuscany, with 383,083 inhabitants in 2016, and over 1,520,000 in its metropolitan area.Bilancio demografico anno 2013, datISTAT/ref> Florence was a centre of medieval European trade and finance and one of the wealthiest cities of that era. It is considered by many academics to have been the birthplace of the Renaissance, becoming a major artistic, cultural, commercial, political, economic and financial center. During this time, Florence rose to a position of enormous influence in Italy, Europe, and beyond. Its turbulent political history includes periods of rule by the powerful Medici family and numerous religious and republican revolutions. From 1865 to 1871 the city served as the capital of the Kingdom of Italy (established in 1861). The Florentine dialect forms the base of Standard Italian and it became the language of culture throughout Ital ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Apostolo Zeno
Apostolo Zeno (11 December 1668 in Venice – 11 November 1750 in Venice) was a Venetian poet, librettist, journalist, and man of letters. Early life Apostolo Zeno was born in Venice to a colonial branch of the Zeno family, an ancient Venetian patrician family. His family had been transplanted from Venice to the Kingdom of Candia in the 13th century in order to maintain Venetian order and suppress any rebellious subjects. Following the assault on the island by the Ottoman Empire, the remaining members of his family returned to Venice. Upon return they were not readmitted to the patrician class, but were only able to obtain status as ordinary citizens. His father was Pietro Zeno, a doctor of medicine, and his mother, Caterina Sevasto, belonged to an illustrious and powerful family from Candia, Crete. Having lost his father at an early age, he was left to the care of his mother, who remarried to Venetian senator Pier Antonio Cornaro. His education was entrusted to the Somasc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Palermo
Palermo ( , ; scn, Palermu , locally also or ) is a city in southern Italy, the capital (political), capital of both the autonomous area, autonomous region of Sicily and the Metropolitan City of Palermo, the city's surrounding metropolitan province. The city is noted for its history, culture, architecture and gastronomy, playing an important role throughout much of its existence; it is over 2,700 years old. Palermo is in the northwest of the island of Sicily, by the Gulf of Palermo in the Tyrrhenian Sea. The city was founded in 734 BC by the Phoenicians as ("flower"). Palermo then became a possession of Carthage. Two ancient Greeks, Greek ancient Greek colonization, colonies were established, known collectively as ; the Carthaginians used this name on their coins after the 5th centuryBC. As , the town became part of the Roman Republic and Roman Empire, Empire for over a thousand years. From 831 to 1072 the city was under History of Islam in southern Italy, Arab ru ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Il Sagrifizio Di Jefte (Mayr)
''Il sagrifizio di Jefte'' is a 1795 oratorio by Simon Mayr to a libretto by Giuseppe Foppa performed in Forlì Forlì ( , ; rgn, Furlè ; la, Forum Livii) is a ''comune'' (municipality) and city in Emilia-Romagna, Northern Italy, and is the capital of the province of Forlì-Cesena. It is the central city of Romagna. The city is situated along the Via E .... Recordings * ''Il sagrifizio di Jefte''. Franz Hauk. 2CD Naxos References {{DEFAULTSORT:Sagrifizio di Jefte, Il 1795 oratorios Oratorios by Simon Mayr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David In Spelunca Engaddi
''David in spelunca Engaddi'' (“David in the Cave of Engedi”) is a 1795 oratorio by Simon Mayr. The librettist is unknown, but is possibly Giuseppe Maria Foppa who supplied the Latin texts for '' Iacob a Labano fugiens'' (1791), '' Sisara'' (1793), and ''Tobiae matrimonium ''Tobiae matrimonium, actio sacra pro filiabus chori S. Lazari'' is a 1794 oratorio by Simon Mayr to a Latin libretto by Giuseppe Maria Foppa Giuseppe Maria Foppa (Venice, 12 July 1760 – Venice, 1 March 1845) was an Italian librettist. He wrote ...'' (1794).John Allitt ''Giovanni Simone Mayr: vita, musica, pensiero'' 1995 p376 "1793 Ero (cantata per Bianca Sacchetti, l'ultima direttrice dei Mendicanti, testo di Foppa) Sisara (oratorio in due parti per i Mendicanti, testo di Foppa). 1794 Stabat Mater "a quattro" n. 5 Tobia o Tobiae Matrimonium (oratorio in due parti per i Mendicanti, testo in latino e in italiano di Foppa) La Passione (oratorio in ... 1795 David in Spelunca Engaddi (oratorio in due parti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Forlì
Forlì ( , ; rgn, Furlè ; la, Forum Livii) is a ''comune'' (municipality) and city in Emilia-Romagna, Northern Italy, and is the capital of the province of Forlì-Cesena. It is the central city of Romagna. The city is situated along the Via Emilia, to the east of the Montone river, and is an important agricultural centre. The city hosts some of Italy's culturally and artistically significant landmarks; it is also notable as the birthplace of painters Melozzo da Forlì and Marco Palmezzano, humanist historian Flavio Biondo, physicians Geronimo Mercuriali and Giovanni Battista Morgagni. The University Campus of Forlì (part of the University of Bologna) is specialized in Economics, Engineering, Political Sciences as well as the Advanced school of Modern Languages for Interpreters and Translators (SSLMIT). Climate The climate of the area is humid subtropical (''Cfa'' in the Köppen climate classification) with Mediterranean features, fairly mitigated by the relative closeness ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
