Antonio Peregrino Benelli

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Antonio Peregrino Benelli (born September 5, 1771 in Forlì ; † August 6, 1830 in Börnichen / Erzgeb. ) Was an Italian opera singer (tenor), composer and singing teacher.

Life

Benelli, the son of a doctor, received his musical training in Bologna and gained recognition as a theoretically and practically trained musician at an early stage. From 1790 he worked as a tenor at the Teatro San Carlo in Naples . In 1798 he was appointed to the Italian theater in London . From 1801 he worked as a composer, opera singer and singing teacher in Dresden . He created mainly church music and published some music theory writings on singing.

Through the mediation of the Italian composer and conductor Gaspare Spontini , he received a professorship for singing teaching at the Royal Court Opera in Berlin in 1823 . He also worked as a correspondent for the Allgemeine musical newspaper . After arguments with his sponsor Spontini (Benelli had criticized his opera Olympia ) he had to give up his position and retired to Dresden, later to his country estate in the Ore Mountains, where he died impoverished in 1830.

Works (selection)

  • Partenope : Dramma di un atto per musica , Naples (1798)
  • 4 notturni: à 4 voci , Breitkopf & Härtel Verlag, Leipzig (1815)
  • Regole per il Canto figurato: o siano precetti ragionati per apprendere i principj di Musica ... , Arnoldische Verlagsbuchhandlung, Dresden (1819)

literature

  • Leipziger Kunstblatt for educated art lovers, especially for theater and music , Volume 1 (Issue No. 14 of September 30, 1817), Brockhaus Verlag, Leipzig, 1818, p. 57 ff.
  • Heinrich Ferdinand Mannstein : Memories of the electoral and royal court music in Dresden in the 18th and 19th centuries: According to secret papers and communications. Contains : Life pictures of Joh. Mieksch and his students: Alphonso Zesi, Bergmann , Schröder-Devrient , Agnes Schebest , Naumann, Carl Maria v. Weber , Morlacchi , Benelli etc. Heinrich Mattes, Leipzig 1863. MDZ Reader
  • Notable Wachwitz personalities: Anton Peregrino Benelli. In: Wachwitz - history of a fishing and wine village, Elbhang-Kurier-Verlag, Dresden, 2000, p. 143.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Alfonso Zesi (May 17, 1799 in Milan - 1861 in Milan). Bass singer a. a. in Dresden.
personal data
SURNAME Benelli, Antonio Peregrino
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian opera singer (tenor), composer and singing teacher
DATE OF BIRTH September 5, 1771
PLACE OF BIRTH Forlì
DATE OF DEATH August 6, 1830
Place of death Börnichen / Erzgeb.