Andrea Adolfati

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Andrea Adolfati (* 1711, 1721 or 1722 in Venice ; † October 28, 1760 in Padua ) was an Italian opera composer .

Life

After completing his studies with Baldassare Galuppi , Adolfati first became Kapellmeister at the Church of Santa Maria della Salute in Venice . In 1745 he followed a call from the Archduchess of Modena to work as Kapellmeister there. During this time his divertimento La pace fra la virtù e la bellezza was created , which was performed on January 1, 1746 in the court theater there. In 1746 he composed recitatives, choirs and six arias for the children's opera pasticcio Lo starnuto d'Ercole (German: Das Niesen des Herakles ) by Johann Adolph Hasse . Like his subsequent satirical opera Didone abbandonata with puppets, it was performed in the small, newly opened Teatro di San Girolamo by Abate Antonio Labia in the parish of San Girolamo in Cannaregio in Venice. In 1748 he left his position in Modena and became music director at the Basilica della Santissima Annunziata del Vastato in Genoa. On May 30, 1760 he was appointed to succeed Giacomo Rampini as Kapellmeister in Padua , where he remained until his death in the same year. In spite of his church duties, he often traveled to the respective Italian cities to perform his operas.

Adolfati's style is conventional and follows on from his teacher Galuppi. His spiritual works are influenced by Benedetto Marcello . He is credited with introducing the 5/4 time that he used in an aria in his opera Arianna , and one of his early works uses a 7/4 time. In 1753 Pietro Metastasio attended a performance of his opera La clemenza di Tito in Vienna . Although he did not particularly like their music, he wrote polite letters to Adolfati in Genoa in 1755 and 1757.

Works

Stage works

The manuscripts of most of his operas are lost.

  • Artaserse , opera seria; Libretto: Pietro Metastasio; WP: Carnival 1741, Verona, Teatro Filarmonico ; with additional music by Pietro Chiarini also Carnival 1742, Teatro Sant'Agostino, Genoa; lost
  • La pace fra la virtù e la bellezza , divertimento da camera; Libretto: Liborati after Pietro Metastasio ; Premiere : January 1st, 1746, Modena, Teatro di Corte
  • Armida abbandonata , dramma per musica, with Giuseppe Maria Buini ; Libretto: Francesco Silvani ; Premiere: around January 22, 1746, Venice, Teatro San Moisè
  • Recitatives, choirs and six arias for Lo starnuto d'Ercole , children's opera, jokingly called “dramma per musica”, pasticcio with music by Johann Adolph Hasse ; Libretto: Pier Jacopo Martello ; Premiere: May 29, 1746, Venice, Teatro di San Girolamo, performed with puppets; Revived in 2003 at the Northwest Puppet Center in Seattle
  • Didone abbandonata , satirical “tragedia per musica”; Libretto: anonymous after Pietro Metastasio; Premiere: February 19, 1747, Venice, Teatro di San Girolamo, performed with puppets; lost, printed in Venice by Luigi Pavini, 1747; OCLC 82721158
  • Il corsaro punito , dramma giocoso per musica (pasticcio with music by Adolfati); Premiere: May 6th 1750, Pavia, Teatro Omodeo; also for June 1750, Padua, Teatro degli Obizzi; lost
  • Arianna , dramma per musica; Libretto: Pietro Pariati ; WP: Winter 1750, Genoa, Teatro Falcone; lost
  • Adriano in Siria , dramma per musica; Libretto: Pietro Metastasio; WP: Carnival 1751, Genoa, Teatro Falcone; lost; OCLC 1038737673
  • La gloria e il piacere , introduction per musica alla festa de ballo; Libretto: Francesco Renzi ; WP: Carnival 1751, Genoa, Teatro Falcone; also Carnival 1752, Modena, Teatro Rangoni; lost
  • Il giuoco dei matti , commedia per musica; Premiere: Autumn 1751, Genoa, Teatro Falcone; lost
  • Ifigenia , dramma per musica; Premiere: December 26th 1751, Genoa, Teatro Falcone; lost
  • Vologeso , dramma per musica; Libretto: Apostolo Zeno ; WP: Carnival 1752, Genoa, Teatro Falcone; lost except for four arias
  • Ipermestra , dramma per musica; Libretto: Pietro Metastasio; Premiere: January 20, 1752, Modena, Teatro Rangoni; lost except for one aria; OCLC 658804240
  • La clemenza di Tito , dramma per musica; Libretto: Pietro Metastasio; Premiere: October 15, 1753, Vienna, Burgtheater ( digitized version of the Vienna Library in the City Hall )
  • Sesostri re d'Egitto , dramma per musica; Libretto: Apostolo Zeno and Pietro Pariati; WP: Carnival 1755, Genoa, Teatro Falcone
  • Antigono, drama & musica da raprasentaisi il Carnouale. WP: Carnival 1755, Genoa, Teatro Falcone; OCLC 237097249

Religious music

  • Miserere for four voices and instruments
  • Nisi Dominus aedificaverit for four voices, four-part choir and orchestra Psalm 126 in A major; OCLC 777197774
  • Nisi Dominus for voice and basso continuo
  • Laudate pueri for four voices, also Laudate Pueri, Motet a Grand Choeur ; OCLC 658804252
  • In exitu , motet for five voices and instruments
  • In exitu Israel for three voices , choir of six voices, and orchestra, Psalm 113 in D major; OCLC 921707331
  • Domine, ne in furore , psalm for four voices, violins, viola and horns
  • Gloria ed il Piacere, cantata for two voices and strings ; OCLC 658804205
  • Six cantatas for soprano and instruments:
    • Già la notte s'avvicina ; Libretto: Pietro Metastasio
    • Filen, crudo Fileno
    • Perdono amata Nice ; Libretto: Pietro Metastasio
    • Cortesi amanti
    • Ingratissimo Tirsi
    • No, non turbarti, o Nice ; Libretto: Pietro Metastasio
  • Six cantatas; OCLC 10060423 ; Edited by Davide Mingozzi in 2014, published by Armelin Musica in Parma; OCLC 879160169
    • Cantata prima: Il Pescator fileno
    • Cantata seconda: Nice a Fileno
    • Cantata terza: Fileno a Nice
    • Cantata quarta: Tirsi a Fillide
    • Cantata Quinta: Ingratissimo Tirsi
    • Cantata Sexta: No, non turbarti o Nice
  • Cantata for two voices
  • Two arias

Instrumental music

  • Six sonatas for three, five or six instruments (two violins, two flutes, two horns, bassoon and double bass), Op. 1; OCLC 658578548
  • Sinfonia in F major
  • Overture in D major

literature

Web links

Commons : Andrea Adolfati  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Sergio Martinotti:  Adolfati, Andrea. In: Ludwig Finscher (Hrsg.): The music in past and present . Second edition, personal section, volume 1 (Aagard - Baez). Bärenreiter / Metzler, Kassel et al. 1999, ISBN 3-7618-1111-X , Sp. 163–164 ( online edition , subscription required for full access).
  2. ^ A b c Sven Hansell and Carlida Steffan:  Adolfati, Andrea. In: Grove Music Online (English; subscription required).
  3. ^ Eleanor Selfridge-Field: A New Chronology of Venetian Opera and Related Genres, 1660-1760 (English), Stanford 2007, ISBN 978-0-8047-4437-9 , pp. 624 f. ( limited preview in Google Book search).
  4. ↑ n.18 . Teatro di San Girolamo. Description of the puppet theater on graziussi.com (Italian), accessed December 25, 2014.
  5. ^ Libretto data set for Lo starnuto d'Ercole in the Catalogo delle Biblioteca Braidense (Italian), accessed on December 25, 2014.
  6. ↑ The Sneeze of Hercules. ( January 26, 2015 memento on the Internet Archive ) Performance record at the Northwest Puppet Center Seattle, accessed December 25, 2014.
personal data
SURNAME Adolfati, Andrea
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian opera composer
DATE OF BIRTH 1711 or 1721 or 1722
PLACE OF BIRTH Venice
DATE OF DEATH October 28, 1760
Place of death Padua