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Cristoforo Ivanovich (1628–1689) was the first historian of Venetian
Cristoforo Ivanovich biography
{{DEFAULTSORT:Ivanovich, Cristoforo 1620 births 1689 deaths 17th-century Venetian writers People from Budva Italian opera librettists 17th-century Italian historians Music historians Italian male dramatists and playwrights Italian male non-fiction writers Baroque writers
opera
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, who also wrote several libretto
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s of his own.
Biography
Ivanovich was born in Budua (Budva), at the time part ofVenetian Albania
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(now southeastern Montenegro
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). According to his own testimony, he descended from an old patrician family who settled Budva after leaving Cetinje
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. In 1655 he moved to Verona
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, where he was a member of the Accademia Filarmonica and of the Accademia dei Temperati. In 1657, he moved to Venice, the city where he remained throughout his life. There he became secretary of Leonardo Pesaro, Procurator of San Marco
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, and later, in 1676, was appointed canon
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of St Mark's Basilica
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. From 1663, he wrote several librettos for operas which were performed in the theaters of Venice, Vienna and Piacenza
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. He catalogued all opera performances held in Venice from 1637 until 1681 in his treatise ''Memorie teatrali di Venzia'' (Theatrical Memories of Venice), published in 1680 as part of collection ''Minerva al tavolino''. He wrote all his works in Italian and nearly all of his librettos are drammi per musica.
Notable works
*''L'amor guerriero'' (music byPietro Andrea Ziani
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, 1663)
*''La Circe'' (music by Pietro Andrea Ziani, 1665), music by Domenico Freschi
Giovanni Domenico Freschi (26 March 1634 – 2 July 1710) was an Italian composer and Roman Catholic priest. From the age of 22 until his death he worked as a church musician and composer in Vincenza. He was also active as an opera composer from ...
, 1679)
*''Coriolano'' (music by Francesco Cavalli
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, 1669)
*''La costanza trionfrante'' (music by Gian Domenico Partenio, 1673, music by Bernardo Pasquini
Bernardo Pasquini (Massa e Cozzile, 7 December 1637Rome, 21 November 1710) was an Italian composer of operas, oratorios, cantatas and keyboard music. A renowned virtuoso keyboard player in his day, he was one of the most important Italian compose ...
as ''Dov'è amore è pietà'', 1679)
*''Lisimaco'' (music by Giovanni Maria Pagliardi, 1673)
*''L'africano trionfo di Pompeo'' (1678)
*''La felicità regnante'' (''serenata'', 1681)
* – Letters, essays, poetry, incl. ''Memorie teatrali di Venzia'' (pp. 361 ff)
Bibliography
*Ivano Cavallini: "Questioni di poetica del melodramma del Seicento nelle lettere di Cristoforo Ivanovich", in ''Giovanni Legrenzi e la Cappella ducale di San Marco'', pp. 185–99 (Venice, 1990) *Norbert Dubowy: ''Introduction to C. Ivanovich: Memorie teatrali di Venezia'' (Lucca
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, 1993)
*Miloš Milošević: "Il contributo di Cristoforo Ivanovich nell'evoluzione del melodramma seicentesco", in ''Il libro nel bacino adriatico (secc. XVI–XVIII)]'', pp. 111–24 (Venice, 1989)
* Miloš Velimirović. ''Cristoforo Ivanovich from Budva: the First Historian of the Venetian Opera'' (1967)
*Thomas Walker. "Gli errori di ''Minerva al tavolino'': osservazioni sulla cronologia delle prime opere veneziane", in ''Venezia e il melodramma nel Seicento'', pp. 7–20 (Venice, 1972)
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Cristoforo Ivanovich biography
{{DEFAULTSORT:Ivanovich, Cristoforo 1620 births 1689 deaths 17th-century Venetian writers People from Budva Italian opera librettists 17th-century Italian historians Music historians Italian male dramatists and playwrights Italian male non-fiction writers Baroque writers