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Pedro António Avondano (16 April 1714 - 1782) was a Portuguese composer of Italian parentage.
Pedro António was born and died in
Biography
(in Portuguese) {{DEFAULTSORT:Avondano, Pedro Antonio 1714 births 1782 deaths Composers for harpsichord Portuguese violinists Male violinists Portuguese composers Portuguese male composers People from Lisbon 18th-century Portuguese musicians Portuguese people of Italian descent 18th-century composers 18th-century male musicians 18th-century musicians
Pedro António Avondano (16 April 1714 - 1782) was a Portuguese composer of Italian parentage.
Pedro António was born and died in Lisbon
Lisbon (; pt, Lisboa ) is the capital and largest city of Portugal, with an estimated population of 544,851 within its administrative limits in an area of 100.05 km2. Grande Lisboa, Lisbon's urban area extends beyond the city's administr ...
. His father Pietro Giorgio Avondano of Genoa
Genoa ( ; it, Genova ; lij, Zêna ). is the capital of the Italian region of Liguria and the List of cities in Italy, sixth-largest city in Italy. In 2015, 594,733 people lived within the city's administrative limits. As of the 2011 Italian ce ...
, was a violinist at the court of João V
Dom John V ( pt, João Francisco António José Bento Bernardo; 22 October 1689 – 31 July 1750), known as the Magnanimous (''o Magnânimo'') and the Portuguese Sun King (''o Rei-Sol Português''), was King of Portugal from 9 December 17 ...
, one of many Italian musicians at the Portuguese court.
Pedro António Avondano is mainly noted, like Domenico Scarlatti
Giuseppe Domenico Scarlatti, also known as Domingo or Doménico Scarlatti (26 October 1685-23 July 1757), was an Italian composer. He is classified primarily as a Baroque composer chronologically, although his music was influential in the deve ...
, for harpsichord sonatas and sacred music.
Works, editions and recordings
* comic opera ''Il mondo della luna'', with libretto byCarlo Goldoni Carlo is a given name. It is an Italian form of Charles. It can refer to:
*Carlo (name)
*Monte Carlo
*Carlingford, New South Wales, a suburb in north-west Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
*A satirical song written by Dafydd Iwan about Prince Char ...
* oratorio ''Il voto di Jefte''
* oratorio ''Adamo ed Eva''
* sacred works, inc. ''Tantum ergo''
* ''sinfonie''
Editions
* Forty-nine Lisbon minuets by Pedro Antonio Avondano ed. Mary Farrar Hatchette, Tulane University of Louisiana, 1971 - 334 pages.
Recordings
* Avondano. Sonata in C major. Sousa Carvalho Sousa refers to
* John Philip Sousa (1854–1932), American composer of marches
Sousa also may refer to:
People
* Sousa (surname), including other Portuguese variants such as Souza, de Sousa, D'Souza, etc.
* João Sousa, Portuguese tennis player ...
. Toccata in G minor, Allegro in D major. Ruggero Gerlin
Ruggero Gerlin (5 January 1899 – 17 June 1983) was an Italian harpsichordist.
Life
Born in Venice, Gerlin studied the piano at the Milan Conservatory then moved to Paris in 1920 to study harpsichord with Wanda Landowska.
He continued to w ...
(harpsichord). Philips © 835769I.Y LP, 1967
* Harpsichord works. Rosana Lanzelotte. Portugaler, 2006.''Harpsichord and fortepiano'' 11-12 2006 Pedro Avondano: Sonatas Rosana Lanzelotte, harpsichord Portugaler 2014-2 Reviewed by John Collins "Only two volumes devoted to keyboard music are known to have been published in Portugal during the eighteenth century,.."
*''Il mondo della luna'', Naxos, 2020
Some of Avondano's works were revived at the Festival d'Ambronay The Ambronay Festival is a French opera festival and early music festival.
The festival has been running in October for 30 years and previously produced recordings with labels such as the Auvidis label. 7 of 14 early recordings were with Jordi Sav ...
in 2006.
References
External links
*Biography
(in Portuguese) {{DEFAULTSORT:Avondano, Pedro Antonio 1714 births 1782 deaths Composers for harpsichord Portuguese violinists Male violinists Portuguese composers Portuguese male composers People from Lisbon 18th-century Portuguese musicians Portuguese people of Italian descent 18th-century composers 18th-century male musicians 18th-century musicians