Antonio Tozzi

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Antonio Tozzi

Antonio Tozzi (* around 1736 in Bologna ; † after 1812 there ) was an Italian opera composer .

Life

Antonio Tozzi received his training from Padre Giovanni Battista Martini and was accepted into the Accademia Filarmonica in 1761 . His first operas were performed in Venice from 1762, including the semiseria La morte di Dimone, the first setting of a libretto by Giovanni Bertati , which, with a great deal of machinery, choir and ballet, allows sixteen people to perform, including four deities. Tozzi married the Milanese opera singer Marianna Bianchi . From 1764 he worked alongside court conductor Johann Gottfried Schwanberger at the Braunschweig Opera House on Hagenmarkt , as a conductor and composer. In 1772 he was appointed court conductor in Munich , where he performed his tragedia Orfeo ed Euridice . The scandal triggered by a relationship with Countess Törring-Seefeld forced him to leave the city in 1775, which Leopold Mozart comments in a letter to his wife as follows: “You can always tell the story of Tozi and Countess Seefeld, see the people that the Welsh of all places are rascals. [sic!] ”(letter of March 3, 1775 to his wife Anna Maria in Salzburg).

After composing and producing another opera in Venice, Rinaldo , the libretto of which was to become the text source for Haydn's Armida , he moved his main area of ​​activity to Spain in February 1776 , where he worked near Madrid and Barcelona alongside his own works (such as I due gemelli Castore e Polluce on the occasion of the birth of twins of the future King Charles IV. ) Performed operas by Martín y Soler , Paisiello , Cimarosa , Guglielmi and Anfossi .

Among Tozzi's twenty or so operas, some are Dramma giocoso , but with Dramma, Dramma Serio, Tragedia and Opera seria the heroic-mythological element clearly predominates. His work is characterized by great dramatic and melodic abilities and a compact style of orchestration, which often assigns each individual string part a specific task, for example rhythmic marking, motivic support, doubling of the singing voice or establishing a counter-melody. In the contemporary Diario de Barcelona he was often called the leading composer of Barcelona.

Works

Stage works

  • Tigrane, dramma per musica; Libretto: Carlo Goldoni , Francesco Silvani ; Venice 1762
  • La morte di Dimone, o sia L'innocenza vendicata, dramma serio-giocoso; Libretto: Giovanni Bertati , Joseph Felix von Kurz ; Venice 1763
  • Andromaca, dramma serio; Libretto: Antonio Salvi ; Brunswick 1765
  • Arcifanfano, dramma giocoso; Libretto: Carlo Goldoni; Brunswick 1766
  • Il re pastore , opera; Libretto: Pietro Metastasio ; Braunschweig 1766/1767?
  • Siroe , opera; Libretto: Pietro Metastasio; Braunschweig 1766/1767?
  • Adriano in Siria , dramma per musica; Libretto: Pietro Metastasio; Modena 1770
  • Il paese della cuccagna, dramma giocoso; Libretto: Carlo Goldoni; Bologna 1771
  • Zenobia , dramma per musica; Libretto: Pietro Metastasio; Munich 1773
  • Orfeo ed Euridice, azione teatrale; Libretto: Marco Coltellini ; Munich 1775
  • Rinaldo, dramma per musica; Libretto: Giovanni Bertati; Venice 1775
  • Le gemelle, dramma giocoso; Libretto: Girolamo Tonioli; Madrid 1776
  • La serva astuta, dramma giocoso; Munich 1776
  • Lo scherzo della magia, ossia La casa incantata, dramma giocoso; Libretto: Francesco Cerlone; Barcelona 1783
  • I due gemelli Castore e Polluce, favola in musica; Barcelona 1783
  • Caio Mario, dramma per musica; Libretto: Gaetano Roccaforte ; Barcelona 1785
  • La caccia di Enrico IV, opera buffa; Libretto: Giuseppe Palomba ; Barcelona 1788
  • Zemira ed Azor, dramma giocoso; Libretto: Lorenzo da Ponte ; Barcelona 1791
  • L'amore della patria, rappresentazione serio-giocosa; Libretto: Pietro Chiari ; Barcelona 1793 and 1801
  • I due ragazzi savoiardi, dramma giocoso; Barcelona 1794
  • Angelica e Medoro , dramma eroico-pastorale; Libretto: Gaetano Sertor after Pietro Metastasio; Barcelona 1805

Oratorios and cantatas

  • Il trionfo de Gedeone, oratorio; Libretto: G. Fattiboni; Castelbolognese 1771
  • Sant'Elena al Calvario , oratorio; Libretto: Pietro Metastasio; Madrid 1790
  • El triunfo de Venus, cantata; Barcelona 1802
  • Cantata for soprano and instruments

Other vocal works

  • Antifona; Bologna 1761
  • Sinfonia e Kyrie in D major
  • Chirie
  • Gloria in D major
  • Gloria
  • Creed
  • Credo in D major
  • Laudate pueri, psalm
  • Magnificat in B flat major
  • Miserere in C major
  • Si mio cor ci vuol'ingegno, madrigal

Instrumental works

  • 8 sonatas and an overture for keyboard instrument

Other works

  • Counterpoint Studies

Web links

Commons : Antonio Tozzi  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Tigrane. Libretto (Italian), Venice 1762. Digitized version of the Biblioteca Nazionale Braidense .
  2. ↑ La morte di Dimone, o sia L'innocenza vendicata. Libretto (Italian), Venice 1763. Digitized version of the Museo internazionale e biblioteca della musica di Bologna .
  3. ^ Adriano in Siria. Libretto (Italian), Modena 1770. Digitized in the Corago information system of the University of Bologna .
  4. ↑ Il paese della cuccagna. Libretto (Italian), Bologna 1771. Digitized version of the Museo internazionale e biblioteca della musica di Bologna .
  5. ↑ Zenobia. Libretto (Italian), Munich 1773. Digitized version of the Munich digitization center .
  6. ^ Orfeo ed Euridice. Libretto (Italian), Munich 1775. Digitized version of the Munich digitization center .
  7. ↑ Rinaldo. Libretto (Italian), Venice 1775. Digital copy from the Museo internazionale e biblioteca della musica di Bologna .
  8. ↑ Le gemelle. Libretto (Italian), Madrid 1776. Digitized version of the Museo internazionale e biblioteca della musica di Bologna .
  9. ^ Lo scherzo della magia, ossia La casa incantata. Libretto (Italian), Barcelona 1783. Digitized at Google Books .
  10. ↑ Zemira ed Azor. Libretto (Italian), Barcelona 1791. Digitized at Google Books .
  11. ↑ L'amore della patria. Libretto (Italian), Barcelona 1801. Digitized at Google Books .
  12. ↑ Angelica e Medoro. Libretto (Italian), Barcelona 1805. Digitized at Google Books .
personal data
SURNAME Tozzi, Antonio
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian opera composer
DATE OF BIRTH around 1736
PLACE OF BIRTH Bologna
DATE OF DEATH after 1812
Place of death Bologna