Antonio Boroni

Antonio Boroni , also Baroni, Borroni, Buroni, Burroni (* 1738 in Rome , † December 21, 1792 ibid) was an Italian composer .

life and work

Boroni studied with (Padre) Giambattista Martini in Bologna and with Lorenzo Fago at the Conservatorio Pietà dei Turchini in Naples . In 1761 he performed his first opera buffa La moda in Turin. His operas were soon performed in Venice, Treviso, Dresden and Prague as well. With the Bustelli Opera Company he went to Prague ( Artaserse and Didone ) in 1767/68 and then to Dresden. From 1770 to 1777 Boroni was court music director in Stuttgart , where he mainly composed opéras comiques as the successor to Niccolo Jommelli . During this time he also taught at the Hohen Karlsschule . In 1777 he returned to Rome, where his last opera, Enea nel Lazio, came out during the carnival in 1778 . Until his death, Boroni was maestro di cappella at San Pietro in Vaticano and from 1790 additionally at San Apollinare at the Collegium Germanicum in Rome. Among his students was u. a. Muzio Clementi .

Boroni wrote around 15 operas, concertos, symphonies and a number of masses, motets and other church music.

In 2015 his dramma giocoso L'amore in musica , which he had composed for the autumn stagione of 1763 at the Teatro Giustiniani in Venice, was staged again at the Barokních umení festival in Cesky Krumlov . A handwritten score is in the music collection of the Austrian National Library .

literature

• Article in MGG (Music in the past and present)
• Article in The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, 1980, vol. III

Web links

• Search for operas by Antonio Boroni (search term in the Autore field : "Boroni Antonio") in the Corago information system of the University of Bologna