Antonio Caldara
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Antonio Caldara (* 1670 in Venice ; † December 28, 1736 in Vienna ) was an Italian cellist and composer . He is one of the composers of the Venetian late baroque .
Life
Caldara probably received his musical training from Giovanni Lenzei in Venice. From 1700 to 1707 he worked as Kapellmeister in Mantua . In 1708 he composed for Emperor Charles VI. the 2nd act of the opera L'Atenaide. From 1709 to 1716 Caldara was employed in Rome .
After moving to Vienna in 1716, Caldara became the first vice conductor of the Vienna court music band at the imperial court under Johann Joseph Fux . He made a name for himself with over 3,400 composed works, especially in the field of vocal music, including more than 80 operas , 43 oratorios , around 150 masses , serenades , cantatas and symphonies. His music is characterized by a great wealth of melodies.
Emperor Charles VI. At that time conducted some of the operas of his vice conductor himself. The well-arranged mixture of Italian and German-Austrian elements brought the music of the Venetian great success in Vienna.
Works (selection)
The church music work has hardly been researched to date. The exact number of masses and smaller sacred compositions can only be guessed at. The New Zealand music researcher Brian Pritchard has been working on a thematic catalog since the mid-1980s. Thanks to Pritchard's numerous editions and performances of works by Caldara, there has been a great deal of interest in the Venetian composer in recent years.
- Op. 1: 12 Suonate a tre ( trio sonatas ). (Venice, 1693)
- Op. 2: 11 Suonate da camera a tre and a chaconne . (Venice 1699)
- Op. 3: 12 solo chamber cantatas (Venice 1699)
- Op. 4: Motetti a 2, 3 voci (Bologna 1715)
- Numerous Sonata da camera a violino e violoncello (only handwritten, composed before 1710)
- Several unpublished solo and trio sonatas from his time in Vienna.
- 17 cello sonatas and 1 cello concerto dedicated to Count Rudolf Franz Erwein von Schönborn zu Wiesentheid (1735)
- Several symphonies in concert
- 12 Madrigali a quatro e cinque voci
- 43 oratorios, including:
- Maddalena ai piedi di Cristo (probably Venice around 1698)
- La passione di Gesù Cristo (Vienna 1730)
- Sant'Elena al Calvario (Vienna 1731)
- La morte d'Abel (Vienna 1732)
- About 300 solo cantatas with Bc, some with other instruments
- about 500 canons in different collections
- Attalanta ovvero la costanza in amor (opera; text by Nicolò Minato ). German by Friedrich Christian Bressand under the title Atalanta or the lost lovers (Braunschweig 1698)
- La Partenope (Opera, Mantua 1701)
- Arminio (Opera, Genoa 1705)
- Il più bel nome ( Componimento da camera , Barcelona 1708)
- Dafne (Dramma pastorale, Vienna, July 1719)
- Lucio Papirio dittatore (Opera, Vienna 1719)
- La concordia de 'pianeti ( Componimento teatrale , Znaim 1723)
- Demetrio (Opera, Vienna 1731)
- L'asilo d'Amore ( Festa teatrale , Linz 1732)
- Adriano in Siria (Opera, Vienna 1732)
- L'olimpiade (Opera, Vienna 1733)
- La clemenza di Tito (Opera, Vienna 1734)
- Le cinesi ( Componimento drammatico , Vienna 1735)
- Le grazie vendicate (Componimento drammatico, Vienna 1735)
- Achille in Sciro (Opera, Vienna 1736)
- Ciro riconosciuto (Opera, Vienna 1736)
- Temistocle (Opera, Vienna 1736)
literature
- Constantin von Wurzbach : Caldara, Anton . In: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich . 2nd part. Publishing house of the typographic-literary-artistic establishment (L. C. Zamarski, C. Dittmarsch & Comp.), Vienna 1857, p. 236 f. ( Digitized version ).
- Carl Ferdinand Pohl: Caldara, Antonio . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 3, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1876, pp. 693-695.
- Erich Schenk: Caldara, Antonio. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 3, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1957, ISBN 3-428-00184-2 , p. 93 f. ( Digitized version ).
- Friedrich Wilhelm Bautz : Caldara, Antonio. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 1, Bautz, Hamm 1975. 2nd, unchanged edition Hamm 1990, ISBN 3-88309-013-1 , Sp. 852-853.
- Brian W. Pritchard: Antonio Caldara: essays on his life and times (conference report) . Scolar Press, Aldershot 1987, ISBN 0-85967-720-6 .
- Ursula Kirkendale: Antonio Caldara: his life and his Venetian-Roman oratorios . Böhlau, Graz, Cologne 1994, ISBN 978-3-205-08234-7 .
- Werner Rainer: Caldara and Salzburg, in: Sound sources. Festschrift for Ernst Hintermeier on his 65th birthday, ed. v. Lars E. Laubhold et al. Gerhard Walterskirchen . Strube Verlag, Munich 2010, ISBN 978-3-89912-140-7 , pp. 52-79 .
- Andrea Zedler: Cantatas for Prince and Emperor. Antonio Caldara's compositions between entertainment and courtly ceremonies , Vienna: Böhlau 2020, ISBN 978-3-205-20971-3 .
Web links
- Works by and about Antonio Caldara in the catalog of the German National Library
- Works by and about Antonio Caldara in the German Digital Library
- Sheet music and audio files by Antonio Caldara in the International Music Score Library Project
- List of stage works by Antonio Caldara based on the MGG at Operone
- Search for operas by Antonio Caldara (search term in the Autore field : “Caldara Antonio”) in the Corago information system of the University of Bologna
Individual evidence
- ↑ Archive link ( Memento from December 20, 2012 in the web archive archive.today )
- ^ Brian W. Pritchard: Caldara, Antonio. In: Grove Music Online (English; subscription required).
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Caldara, Antonio |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Italian Baroque composer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1670 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Venice |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 28, 1736 |
| Place of death | Vienna |