Andrea Lucchesi
Andrea Luca Lucchesi (also Luchesi ; born May 23, 1741 in Motta di Livenza ; † March 21, 1801 in Bonn ) was an Italian organist and composer . From 1774 to 1794 he was Kapellmeister in Bonn.
life and work
Luchesi received his first music lessons from his older brother, an organist. At the age of 15 he moved to Venice, where he studied with outstanding musicians (e.g. Saratelli , Bertoni , Galuppi ). In addition, Luchesi had didactic and artistic relationships with two important music theorists, Padre Francesco Antonio Vallotti and Count Giordano Riccati.
Luchesi quickly became a famous organist and composer for organ and harpsichord. He created instrumental music, church music and stage works. In the spring of 1765 his opera buffa L'isola della fortuna ( The Island of Fortune ) was performed at the Vienna Court Theater. During a trip to Italy in 1771 he met Leopold and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart . At the end of 1771, Luchesi traveled to Bonn at the invitation of the Cologne elector Maximilian Friederich and worked in the electoral court orchestra. After the death of the previous conductor Ludwig van Beethoven the Elder, the grandfather of the composer Ludwig van Beethoven , Luchesi was appointed court conductor in 1774. Under him, the Bonn Opera experienced its heyday.
Luchesi obtained citizenship in his new home and in 1775 he married (Josepha) Anthonetta d'Anthoin. With the exception of a visit to Venice in 1783/84, he lived in Bonn until his death (1801). His role as Kapellmeister ended in 1794 when the Bonn court orchestra was dissolved as a result of the French occupation of the Rhineland.
The from 1994 in his book Andrea Luchesi. L'ora della verita disseminated theses by mathematics professor Giorgio Taboga, to whom Luchesi attributed outstanding importance to the development of Viennese classicism , received very little attention from experts. The only review (Maria Girardi in Nuova rivista musicale italiana, 1997) rated them as insubstantial fantasies. There is also no reliable evidence for the theory of the journalist Luigi della Croce, presented at a congress in Berlin in 1999, that Luchesi was supposed to have taught the young Beethoven.
literature
- Constantin von Wurzbach : Lucchesi, Andreas . In: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich . 16th part. Kaiserlich-Königliche Hof- und Staatsdruckerei, Vienna 1867, p. 129 ( digitized version ).
- Theodor von Frimmel , Beethoven-Handbuch , Leipzig 1926, Volume 1, p. 374 f. (Digitized version)
- Josef Niesen : Bonn Personal Lexicon. Bouvier, Bonn 2007, ISBN 978-3-416-03159-2 .
Web links
- Entry in the Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani
- Works by and about Andrea Lucchesi in the catalog of the German National Library
- Sheet music and audio files by Andrea Luchesi in the International Music Score Library Project
- Works by Andrea Lucchesi in the RISM catalog
Individual evidence
- ^ Carlo Vitali: Cattivi maestri, pessimi allievi. Interview. In: musica 294, March 2018, pp. 61–65 (Italian, PDF), accessed on May 6, 2019.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Lucchesi, Andrea |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Luchesi, Andrea Luca (full name); Luchesi, Andrea |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Italian organist and composer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 23, 1741 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Motta di Livenza |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 21, 1801 |
| Place of death | Bonn |