Antonio Sartorio

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Antonio Sartorio (* around 1630 in Venice , † the 30th December 1681 ) was an Italian composer of the Baroque .

Life

Antonio Sartorio was the brother of the composer and organist Gasparo Sartorio (1625–1680) and the architect Girolamo Sartorio . His sphere of activity was mainly in Italy and in Hanover . Sartorio was one of the leading opera composers in his hometown of Venice in the 1660s and 1670s. Between 1665 and 1675 he spent the winters in Hanover, where he held the post of Kapellmeister at the court of Duke Johann Friedrich von Braunschweig-Lüneburg . He returned to Venice for the summer months. In 1676 he became vice conductor at St. Mark's Basilica , his successor was Giovanni L Limiti . In 1677 the opera Antonino e Pompeiano was premiered in the S. Salvatore Theater in Venice, it was considered lost for a long time until Gloria Rose was able to find a manuscript of the opera in the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Library in 1972.

Works (selection)

  • L'Adelaide (1672)
  • Alcina (1674-1675)
  • Anacreonte Tiranno (1677)
  • Antonio e Pompeiano (1677)
  • Elio Seiano (1667) (or La prosperità d'Elio Seinano or La caduta d'Elio Seiano )
  • La Flora (1680, completed by Marc'Antonio Ziani )
  • Massenzio (1672)
  • L'Orfeo , dramatic Singspiel around 1673
  • Giulio Cesare in Egitto (1676), a long-forgotten baroque opera from Venice based on a libretto by Giacomo Francesco Bussani . She tells the story of Julius Caesar and Cleopatra in a dramatic and passionate way , but with their nurse Rodisbe and her longed-for lovers, she also has stylistic elements of comic opera . For the happy ending, the two main characters Julius and Cleopatra sing about their love, and Cleopatra becomes Queen of Egypt.

The work was only brought back to the stage after about 300 years (2004 at the Innsbruck Festival under Attilio Cremonesi ) and was produced on CD in 2005 by Ö1 and William Christie .

  • Op. 1: 23 Salmi a 8 voci a due chori ma accomodati all'uso della Serenissima Capella Ducale di San Marco (Venice 1680)
  • Ad tantum triumphum in Motetti Sagri à voce sola con instrumenti (1695)

literature

  • Heinrich Sievers: Hanoverian music history. Documents, Reviews and Opinions , Vol. 1, Tutzing 1979, pp. 68-70
  • Wulf Konold (overall editor): The Lower Saxony State Orchestra Hanover 1636 to 1986 , publisher: Lower Saxony State Theater Hanover GmbH, Hanover 1986
  • Hugo Thielen : Sartorio, (1) Antonio. In: Dirk Böttcher , Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein, Hugo Thielen: Hannoversches Biographisches Lexikon . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2002, ISBN 3-87706-706-9 , pp. 307f., Online via Google books
  • Hugo Thielen: Sartorio, (1) Antonio. In: Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein (eds.) U. a .: City Lexicon Hanover . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2009, ISBN 978-3-89993-662-9 , p. 535.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ s. Gloria Rose: Two Operas recovered by Scarlatti. In: The Musical Quarterly, LVII (July 1972), 420-435
personal data
SURNAME Sartorio, Antonio
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian composer of the early baroque
DATE OF BIRTH around 1630
PLACE OF BIRTH Venice
DATE OF DEATH December 30, 1681
Place of death Venice