Andrea Bernasconi

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Andrea Bernasconi (* 1706 in Marseille ; † January 24, 1784 in Munich ) was an Italian composer .

Life

Bernasconi's father was a French officer of Italian descent who settled in Parma as a merchant . Little is known about Andrea Bernasconi's artistic training. From 1744 (May 16) to 1753 (September 21) he worked as maestro di coro at the Ospedale della Pietà in Venice . In 1747 he married Maria Josepha Wagele (1722–1762), the widow of a ducal Württemberg valet. In 1753 he came to Munich and became Vice-Kapellmeister of Elector Maximilian III. He was the music teacher of the elector and later also of his sisters. Wilhelmine von Bayreuth commissioned him to compose the festival opera L'Huomo for the visit of her brother Frederick the Great in June 1754 in Bayreuth . In September 1755, Bernasconi took over the position of Kapellmeister from Giovanni Porta , after he had previously been appointed to the electoral council. From 1772 Bernasconi was only responsible for church music at court. After his death in 1784, Franz Paul Grua and Georg Joseph Vogler took over the post with equal rights.

Andrea Bernasconi is generally considered to be a conservative representative of the so-called Neapolitan school , the elaborations of the orchestral accompaniments remain remarkable.

His extensive work of sacred vocal music was destroyed in the fire of the Allerheiligen-Hofkirche in 1944 . These included 34 Masses, 6 Credos, 2 Requiem, 17 Litanies, 35 Vesper Psalms, 3 Te Deum, 6 Stabat Mater and numerous other works for church use.

Bernasconi's stepdaughter Antonia Bernasconi (born Wagele 1741–1803) was a well-known buffo singer, her breakthrough came in 1767 at the world premiere of Christoph Willibald Gluck's opera Alceste in Vienna.

Operas

Oratorios

  • La Betulia liberata (azione sacra, libretto by Pietro Metastasio, 1738, Vienna)
  • Davidis lapsus et poenitentia (drama sacrum, 1744, Venice)
  • Adonia (drama sacrum, 1746, Venice)
  • Pastorum dialogium in Domine nativitate (1746, Venice)
  • Jonathas (drama sacrum, 1747, Venice)
  • Carmina canendo in virginibus Orphanodochii S. Mariae Pietate (1752, Venice)

Instrumental music

  • 22 symphonies (3 cannot be assigned with certainty)
  • 1 flute concert
  • 1 trio sonata

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Daniela Sadgorski: Andrea Bernasconi and the opera at the Münchner Kürfürstenhof 1753–1772 , p. 48. The source is Denis Arnold: Orphans and Ladies: The Venezian Conservatories (1680–1790) . In: Proceedings of the Royal Musical Association 89 (1962/63), p. 46. (Sadgorski expressly corrects the Bernasconi article in MGG 2).
  2. ^ Daniela Sadgorski: Andrea Bernasconi and the Opera at the Munich Kürfürstenhof 1753–1772 , p. 58.

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SURNAME Bernasconi, Andrea
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian composer and conductor
DATE OF BIRTH 1706
PLACE OF BIRTH Marseille
DATE OF DEATH January 24, 1784
Place of death Munich