Andrea Zani

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Andrea Teodoro Zani (born November 11, 1696 in Casalmaggiore near Cremona , † September 28, 1757 ibid) was an Italian violinist and composer .

Life

Zani received his first violin lessons from his father, an amateur violinist. He then took composition lessons from Giacomo Civeri , a local musician, and violin lessons from the court violinist Carlo Ricci . The Kapellmeister Antonio Caldara , who works in Mantua not far from Casalmaggiore, heard Zani's playing and invited him to accompany him to Vienna. Zani arrived in Vienna between 1727 and 1729 and worked there as a violinist in the service of the Viennese court. In 1739 he returned to Italy and worked in his homeland as a concert organizer, music teacher at an orphanage and in various noble houses.

plant

Zani's works are influenced by Antonio Vivaldi , but a little less expansive. His late works illustrate a detachment from the baroque towards pre-classical elements. The cello concertos from Schönborn's Wiesentheid musical collection, dedicated to the art-loving Count Rudolf Franz Erwein von Schönborn , are significant . The musicologist Eugene K. Wolf described Zani's symphonies as the first mature works of their genre.

  • op.1: 12 Sonate da Camera (Mantua 1727), the same sonatas were reprinted as op.3 Sonates a Violino solo e Basso da camera (Paris)
  • op. 2: 6 Symphony da Camera ed altrettanti Concerti da Chiesa a Quattro Strumenti (1729)
  • op. 4: 12 Concerti a quattro con i suoi ripieni (Vienna 1733)
  • op. 5: 12 Sonata a Violino e Basso intitolate "Pensieri armonici" (Vienna 1735)
  • op. 6: Sonata a Violino e Basso (Paris 1740)

In addition, numerous manuscripts can be found in various libraries in Europe, including

  • 3 flute concerts
  • 6 trio sonatas
  • 23 violin concerts
  • 12 cello concerts

literature

A comprehensive account of all aspects of Zani's life and work is contained in Jill Ward's 12-volume dissertation. Volumes 2 to 11 each contain detailed descriptions, studies and discussions as well as the complete sheet music. Each volume is paginated separately; the page number is therefore given in the PDF document:

  • Volume 1 (p. 6): Introduction, literature, biography (p. 29), epilogue, bibliography, editorial method
  • Volume 2 (p. 143, notes p. 248): [12] Sonate da Camera, Opera Prima
  • Volume 3 (p. 393, notes p. 520): Sei Sinfonie da Camera ed altretanti Concerti da Chiesa a quatro Stromenti, Opera Seconda
  • Volume 4 (p. 753, sheet music p. 824): Concerti Dodeci a Quatro con suoi Ripieni, Opera Quarta
  • Volume 5 (p. 1155, sheet music p. 1190): Sonate 12 a Violino e Basso Intitolate Pensieri Armonici, Opera Quinta
  • Volume 6 (p. 1277, sheet music p. 1323): [6] Sonate a Violino e Basso, Opera Sesta
  • Volume 7 (p. 1373, sheet music p. 1393): Works in the music collection of Count von Schönborn-Wiesentheid (that is Rudolf Franz Erwein von Schönborn )
  • Volume 8 (p. 1537, notes p. 1610): Works in the “Fonds Blancheton” in the Bibliothèque nationale de France in Paris
  • Volume 9 (p. 1769, notes p. 1843): Works in Sweden
  • Volume 10 (p. 1911, sheet music p. 1982): Individual Concerti
  • Volume 11 (p. 2123, notes p. 2174): Mixed works
  • Volume 12 (p. 2223, list of works p. 2244): Thematic catalog / list of works

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Marcello Villa: Zani's CV on mvcremona.it
  2. ↑ Jillian Ruth Ward: Andrea Zani (1696–1757) - Life and Works - Through a study of the documents together with a collected edition and thematic catalog , Christchurch / NZ 2010; on the Internet as a download ( Memento from January 22, 2015 in the Internet Archive ); 66 MB, 2338 pages
  3. ↑ http://www.schoenborn.de/sammlung.html
personal data
SURNAME Zani, Andrea
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Zanni, Andrea Teodoro
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian composer and violinist of the late baroque
DATE OF BIRTH November 11, 1696
PLACE OF BIRTH Casalmaggiore
DATE OF DEATH September 28, 1757
Place of death Casalmaggiore