Antonio Pollarolo

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Giovanni Antonio Pollarolo (born November 12, 1676 in Brescia , † May 4, 1746 in Venice ) was an Italian organist and composer of the Baroque era.

Live and act

Antonio Pollarolo learned from his father Carlo Francesco Pollarolo , an organist and opera composer who worked in Venice. Around 1700 his first opera L'Aristeo was performed in the Teatro San Cassiano . In 1702 he became his father's deputy organist at St. Mark's Basilica . In March 1716, at a salary of 200 ducats, he succeeded Benedetto Vinaccesi as maestro di coro at the Ospedale di Direlitti (Ospedaletto). In 1723, after the death of his father, he was appointed organist at St. Mark's Basilica. After the death of Antonio Lotti , he followed him in 1740 as Kapellmeister at St. Mark's Basilica, after having worked there temporarily as deputy Kapellmeister in 1733/1734.

Works (selection)

Pollarolo, who was often compared with his father in contemporary writings and was rarely able to break free from his shadow, composed according to his own list, between 1716 and 1730 for the Ospedaletto, 4 oratorios, 3 pastorals, a passion and about 3 masses, 185 motets , 73 antiphons and other sacred works.

Operas

  • L'Aristeo (1700)
  • Griselda (1701)
  • Demetrio e Tolomeo (1702)
  • Nerone fatto Cesare (in collaboration with Antonio Vivaldi , 1715)
  • Leucippe e Teonoe (1719)
  • Plautilla (1721)
  • Lucio Papirio dittatore (1721)
  • Cosroe (1723)
  • I tre voti ( Serenata , 1724)
  • Orlando furioso (1725)
  • Turia Lucrezia (1726)
  • I tre voti (1726)
  • Nerina, favola pastorale (1728)
  • Sulpizia fedele (1729)
  • L'abbandono di Armida (1729)

Oratorios

  • Recognitio fratrum (1714)
  • Sacrum amoris novendiale (1716)
  • Oratorio per il Santissimo Natale (1718)

Web links

Commons : Antonio Pollarolo  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Pollarolo's résumé on haendel.it (in Italian)
  2. ^ MGG , 2nd edition, Vol. 13, columns 736 and 737
personal data
SURNAME Pollarolo, Antonio
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Pollarolo, Giovanni Antonio (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian Baroque composer
DATE OF BIRTH November 12, 1676
PLACE OF BIRTH Brescia
DATE OF DEATH May 4, 1746
Place of death Venice