Antonio Bioni

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Antonio Bioni (* 1698 in Venice , † 1739 in Vienna or Italy ) was an Italian singer and composer , above all the creator of late Baroque dramatic operas .

Live and act

Antonio Bioni, son of a tailor, was a pupil of Giovanni Porta . His first stage work, Climene , was performed in Chioggia in 1721 . A year later, his opera Cajo Mario was performed in Ferrara with great success . In the same year he wrote an opera for Count Franz Anton von Sporck in Kuks (Bohemia) for his private theater.

From 1726 he was a music teacher and harpsichord accompanist for an Italian opera company in Breslau , which he had joined in Kuks. In 1730 he became director and impresario of the troupe, which was disbanded in 1734. During this time Daniel Gottlieb Treu , who also contributed a few operas to the program, and Georg Gebel as harpsichordist of the ensemble, worked one after the other . Bioni wrote 25 operas for this ensemble from Wroclaw, some of which were very successful. The Bishop of Breslau, Franz Ludwig von Pfalz-Neuburg , from 1729 also Elector of Mainz, appointed Bioni as his court composer in 1731. In the years 1738 and 1739 some of his compositions, including the opera Girita, were performed in Vienna, after which his traces are lost.

In addition to his stage works, only a few insignificant works are known by Bioni, including a four-part mass, 3 arias with orchestral accompaniment and a string overture.

Stage works

  • Climene ; WP : Chioggia, Carnival 1721
  • Cajo mario ; WP: Ferrara 1722
  • Mitridates ; WP: Ferrara 1722
  • Udine ; WP: Venice 1722
  • Orlando furioso , dramma per musica; Libretto: Grazio Braccioli ; Premiere: Prague, autumn 1724
  • Armida abbandonata , dramma per musica; Libretto: Francesco Silvani ; Premiere: Prague, November 1725
  • Armida al campo , dramma per musica; Libretto: Francesco Silvani; Premiere: Breslau, June 24th 1726
  • Endimione , opera pastorale; Libretto: Pietro Metastasio or Francesco Mazzari ; Premiere: Breslau, January 7th 1727
  • Lucio Vero , dramma per musica; Libretto: Apostolo Zeno ; Premiere: Breslau, May 1727
  • Attalo ed Arsinoe , dramma per musica; Libretto: Grazio Braccioli; Premiere: Breslau, November 1727
  • Ariodante ; WP: Breslau 1727
  • Artabano re de Parti , dramma per musica; Libretto: Antonio Marchi ; Premiere: Breslau, January 12th 1728
  • Filindo ; Libretto: Pietro d'Averara ; Premiere: Breslau, April 20, 1728
  • Griselda ; WP: Breslau 1728
  • Nissa ed Elpino ; WP: Breslau 1728
  • Merope ; WP: Breslau 1728
  • Arsinoe ; WP: Breslau 1728
  • La fede tradita e vendicata , dramma per musica; Libretto: Francesco Silvani; WP: Breslau, Carnival 1729
  • L'innocenza riconosciuta in Engelberta , dramma per musica; Libretto: Apostolo Zeno; Premiere: Breslau, summer 1729
  • Il ritorno del figlio con l'abito più approvato ( pasticcio with Francesco Mancini and Matteo Lucchini ); WP: Prague, Carnival 1730
  • Andromaca , dramma per musica; Libretto: Apostolo Zeno; Premiere: Breslau, January 16, 1730
  • Ercole su'l Termodonte , dramma per musica; Libretto: Santo Burigotti; Premiere: Breslau, April 17th, 1730
  • Adone , pastorale per musica; Libretto: Antonio Denzi ; WP: Prague, Carnival 1731
  • Lucio Papirio ; Libretto: Antonio Salvi ; Premiere: Breslau, Carnival 1732
  • Siroe, re di Persia , dramma per musica; Libretto: Pietro Metastasio; Premiere: Breslau, February 4th 1732
  • Silvia , dramma per musica; Libretto: Enrico Bissari ; Premiere: Breslau, February 24th 1732
  • La verità conosciuta , dramma per musica; Premiere: Breslau, April 28, 1732
  • Demetrio , dramma per musica; Libretto: Pietro Metastasio; Premiere: Breslau, June 1732
  • Issipile , dramma per musica; Libretto: Pietro Metastasio; Premiere: Breslau, Carnival 1732
  • Alessandro Severo , dramma per musica; Libretto: Apostolo Zeno; Premiere: Breslau, July 1733
  • L'odio placato , dramma per musica; Libretto: Francesco Silvani; Premiere: Breslau, autumn 1733
  • Artaserse , dramma per musica; Libretto: Pietro Metastasio; Premiere: Breslau 1733
  • Alessandro nell'Indie , dramma per musica; Libretto: Pietro Metastasio; Premiere: Breslau, Carnival 1734
  • Girita , dramma per musica; Premiere: Vienna 1738
  • La pace fra la virtù e la bellezza , Serenata ; Libretto: Pietro Metastasio; Premiere: Vienna 1739

Web links

Commons : Antonio Bioni  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ François-Joseph Fétis: Biographie universelle des musiciens et bibliographie génèrale de la musique (1860)
  2. ↑ MGG , 2nd edition, Vol. 2, columns 1664–1666
  3. ↑ Johann Mattheson : Basis of an honor gate, article Daniel Gottlieb Treu, page 374
personal data
SURNAME Bioni, Antonio
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian composer of the late baroque
DATE OF BIRTH 1698
PLACE OF BIRTH Venice
DATE OF DEATH after 1738