Bonaventure Furlanetto
Bonaventura Furlanetto (born May 27, 1738 in Venice ; † April 6, 1817 there ), also called Musin , was an Italian composer. Furlanetti composed mainly oratorios, cantatas, requies and other sacred music. All of his oratorios were premiered in Venice.
Life
Furlanetto came from a humble background. He received music lessons from an uncle and, for a short time, lessons in harmony from a priest in the parish of Santa Margherita, but was basically self-taught as a musician. He studied literature and philosophy in a Jesuit school and was ordained a priest. He gave up this office in order to devote himself entirely to music, but remained a priest on the intervention of his sponsor, the later Patriarch of Venice , Giovanni Bragadin. He initially composed masses, vespers and other sacred music, which were performed in various Venetian churches. In 1774 he applied in vain for the office of vicemaestro at St. Mark's Basilica . In 1782 he was initially appointed assistant organist , but only became vicemaestro in 1797 and finally maestro di cappella in 1808, succeeding Ferdinando Giuseppe Bertoni .
From 1768 until his death in 1817 he also taught at the Ospedale della Pietà . In 1811 he took over the position of teacher of music theory ( maestro di contrappunto e fuga ) at the short-lived Istituto filarmonico di Venezia . Among his students there were Giovanni Pacini and the Benedictine monk and composer Anselmo Marsand (1769–1841).
Works (selection)
Oratorios
- La sposa de 'sacri cantici (1763)
- Protomartire Giovanni Nepomuceno (1765)
- De nativitate virginis genethliacon (1770)
- Moyses in Nilo (1771)
- Felix victori (1773)
- Jaelis Victoria (1773)
- Athalia (1773)
- Templi reparatio (1774)
- David in Siceleg (1776)
- Israelis liberatio (1777)
- Reditus exercitus Israelistici postcladem Philistaeorum (1777)
- Mors Adam (1777)
- Nabot (1778)
- Somnium Pharaonis (1779)
- De filio prodigo (1779)
- Dies extrema mundi (1780)
- David Goliath triumphant (1780)
- Jonathas (1781)
- Salomon rex Israel electus (1782)
- Aurea statua a rege Nabucodonosor erecta vel pueri Hebraei in fornace ardentis ignis (1783)
- Prudens Abiga (1784)
- Moyses ad Rubum (1785)
- Absalonis rebellio (1785)
- Sisara (1786)
- Abraham et Isach (1786)
- De solemni Baltassar convivio (1787)
- Judith triumphans (1787)
- De solemni nuptiae in domum Lebani (1788)
- Triumphus Jephte (1789)
- Bethulia liberata (Libretto: Pietro Metastasio , 1790)
- Gedeon (1792)
- De filio prodigo (1800)
- Primum fatale homicidium (1800)
- Il trionfo di Iefte (1801)
Sacred cantatas
- Melior fiducia vos ergo for soprano, alto and orchestra (1775)
- Quisnam felicior me? for soprano, alto and orchestra (1780)
- In coelo resplendent for soprano, alto and orchestra (1785)
- Alma letitie dies for soprano, alto and orchestra (1789)
- Cantata duodecima for soprano, alto and orchestra (1791)
- Nuptie Rachelis for soprano, alto and orchestra (1795)
- Veritas de terra orta est for five voices (1810)
- Sponsia mantis caro for 5 choirs and 5 orchestras
- Sumo furis regulia venus dies jucundum for 2 choirs and 2 orchestras
- Fugitava quis ploras anima for soprano, alto and orchestra
Secular works
- Baccanals
- Galatea , azione teatrale (Libretto: Pietro Metastasio, Venice, accademia privata)
- Venezia nobile terra d'incanto for one voice and piano
- Volgi, deh! volgi for three voices
- Coro (1799, Venice, ospedale della Pietà)
- Marcia funebre for organ
- Pastorale for two horns, two violins, two violas, bass and organ
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Furlanetto, Bonaventure |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Musin (pseudonym) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Italian composer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 27, 1738 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Venice |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 6, 1817 |
| Place of death | Venice |