Giuseppe Antonio Brescianello

Giuseppe Antonio Brescianello (* around 1690 in Bologna ; † October 4, 1758 in Stuttgart ) was an Italian composer and violinist.

Life

Brescianello's name is first found in a document from 1715 in which the Duke of Bavaria hired him as a violinist in Venice for his Munich court orchestra. As early as 1716, after the death of Johann Christoph Pez , he received the position of music director and maître des concerts de la chambre at the Württemberg court in Stuttgart. In 1717 he was appointed court conductor. The pastoral stage work La Tisbe was created here around 1718 and dedicated to Duke Eberhard Ludwig . Brescianello hoped in vain that his work would be performed at the Stuttgart theater. In the years from 1719 to 1721 a violent dispute broke out in which Reinhard Keizer repeatedly applied for Brescianello's post in vain.

In 1731 Brescianello became senior conductor. When financial difficulties burdened the court in 1737, the opera company was dissolved and Brescianello lost his position. For this reason he devoted himself more to composing, thus creating his 12 Concerti e Symphony Op. 1 and a little later the 18 pieces for the gallichon (the gallichon means the calichon , a lute-like instrument whose tuning is similar to that of the modern guitar and is also known as a "colascione").

When the financial hardship at court had diminished in 1744, Brescianello was reinstated as senior conductor by Duke Carl Eugen , primarily "because of his special knowledge of music and outstanding competence". From 1751 he directed court and opera music until his retirement in 1755. His successors were Ignaz Holzbauer and then Niccolò Jommelli .

Works

Instrumental music

Op. 1: 12 Concerti e Symphonie per Violino principale, due Violini, Viola, Violoncello e Clavicembalo (Amsterdam, 1738)
12 Concerti a 3, due Violini e Basso (manuscript)
around 15 trio sonatas in various formations
18 partitas for calichon (1730)
1 symphonia a 4
Symphony concertanti, concerti, overtures

Vocal music

La Tisbe (Opera pastorale), 1717-18
Missa solenne (four parts)
2 cantatas Sequir fera che fugge and Core amante di perche

Web links

Remarks

^ Ruggero Chiesa (Ed.): Diciotto partite per chitarra dagli originali per colascione. Edizioni Suvini Zerboni, Milan.
↑ See Adalbert Quadt (Ed.): Guitar music of the 16th – 18th centuries. Century. 4 volumes. German publishing house for music, Leipzig 1970–1984. Volume 2: edited from tablature for Colascione, Mandora and Angelica. Pp. 43–64 ( Partita in C major, E minor, A major, D major, C major, F major and A major from 18 pieces for Calichon solo ).

personal data
SURNAME	Brescianello, Giuseppe Antonio
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Italian violinist and composer
DATE OF BIRTH	around 1690
PLACE OF BIRTH	Bologna
DATE OF DEATH	October 4, 1758
Place of death	Stuttgart

[1] Ruggero Chiesa (Ed.): Diciotto partite per chitarra dagli originali per colascione. Edizioni Suvini Zerboni, Milan.

[2] See Adalbert Quadt (Ed.): Guitar music of the 16th – 18th centuries. Century. 4 volumes. German publishing house for music, Leipzig 1970–1984. Volume 2: edited from tablature for Colascione, Mandora and Angelica. Pp. 43–64 ( Partita in C major, E minor, A major, D major, C major, F major and A major from 18 pieces for Calichon solo ).