Alessandro Marcello

Portrait with Latinized name form Alexander Marcellus

Alessandro Ignazio Marcello (born February 1, 1673 in Venice ; † June 19, 1747 ibid) was an Italian poet, lawyer, composer and philosopher. Today, like his brother Benedetto Marcello, he is mainly known as a Baroque composer.

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Alessandro Marcello came from a Venetian patrician family. He studied mathematics and philosophy at the University of Padua. He also received training in painting, poetry and composition. As a composer he created 12 cantatas op. 1 (Venice 1708), several solo concerts and several collections of works with instrumental music, including 12 Concerti a cinque (Amsterdam 1717), six concerts under the name La Cetra for 2 oboes, 2 violins, viola, bassoon and Harpsichord (Augsburg 1738), 12 solo sonatas ( Suonate a violino solo di Eterio Stinfalico ) for violin and basso continuo (published in 1738 by the publisher and engraver Johann Christian Leopold in Augsburg) and twelve other violin sonatas published in Augsburg in the same year. As a member of the Accademia dell'Arcadia, he published his works under his "Arcadian" pseudonym Eterio Stinfalico .

His best-known work is the Concerto for Oboe and Orchestra in D minor , which Johann Sebastian Bach later arranged solo for the keel piano ( BWV 974). It is considered the archetype of the oboe concerto.

In the last years of his life, Marcello devoted himself mainly to spiritual poetry. He died in Venice at the age of 74 and was buried in the Villa Giusti in Padua.

literature

Marco Bizzarini: Marcello, Alessandro. In: Ludwig Finscher (Hrsg.): The music in past and present . Second edition, personal section, volume 11 (Lesage - Menuhin). Bärenreiter / Metzler, Kassel et al. 2004, ISBN 3-7618-1121-7 , Sp. 1037-1038 ( online edition , subscription required for full access)
Héliane Derégis: Alessandro Marcello nel terzo centenario della nascita. (Venezia 1669-1747). Be cantate da camera. (= Historiae musicae cultores; 26). Olschki, Florence 1969 OCLC 1295877 .
Eleanor Selfridge-Field: The music of Benedetto and Alessandro Marcello. A thematic catalog, with commentary on the composers, repertory and sources. Clarendon Press, Oxford 1990, ISBN 0-19-316126-5 .

Web links

Works by and about Alessandro Marcello in the catalog of the German National Library
Sheet music and audio files by Alessandro Marcello in the International Music Score Library Project
What happened today: The composer Alessandro Marcello is born in Venice , in: BR-Klassik from August 24, 2009 (the radio feature still refers to the old date of birth).
Alessandro Marcello: Baroque lawyer

Individual evidence

↑ The date of birth of 24 August 1669, which was often mentioned earlier, is actually that of an older brother of the same name who died in early childhood, see: Marco Bizzarini: MARCELLO, Alessandro Ignazio. In: Mario Caravale (ed.): Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani (DBI). Volume 69: Mangiabotti – Marconi. Istituto della Enciclopedia Italiana, Rome 2007.
↑ Alessandro Marcello: Oboe Concerto in D minor in: The strong piece on BR-Klassik from January 13, 2015.
↑ Marco Bizzarini: MARCELLO, Alessandro Ignazio. In: Mario Caravale (ed.): Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani (DBI). Volume 69: Mangiabotti – Marconi. Istituto della Enciclopedia Italiana, Rome 2007.

personal data
SURNAME	Marcello, Alessandro
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Stinfalico, Eterio (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Italian nobleman and composer
DATE OF BIRTH	February 1, 1673
PLACE OF BIRTH	Venice
DATE OF DEATH	June 19, 1747
Place of death	Venice

[1] The date of birth of 24 August 1669, which was often mentioned earlier, is actually that of an older brother of the same name who died in early childhood, see: Marco Bizzarini: MARCELLO, Alessandro Ignazio. In: Mario Caravale (ed.): Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani (DBI). Volume 69: Mangiabotti – Marconi. Istituto della Enciclopedia Italiana, Rome 2007.

[2] Alessandro Marcello: Oboe Concerto in D minor in: The strong piece on BR-Klassik from January 13, 2015.

[3] Marco Bizzarini: MARCELLO, Alessandro Ignazio. In: Mario Caravale (ed.): Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani (DBI). Volume 69: Mangiabotti – Marconi. Istituto della Enciclopedia Italiana, Rome 2007.