Carlo Antonio Campioni

Carlo Antonio Campioni , also Charles Antoine Campion , (born November 16, 1720 in Lunéville , † April 12, 1788 in Florence ) was an Italian violinist, composer and conductor.

Life

Carlo Antonio Campioni was the son of a servant at the Lorraine court in Lunéville. Presumably he traveled to Padua around 1737 and became a student of Giuseppe Tartini alongside Pietro Nardini , who later became his colleague in Florence . From 1752 Campioni was cathedral music director in Livorno, where the tenor Anton Raaff was working at that time , who described Campioni's youthful works to Padre Martini as those of a novice master. In 1762 he received the royal privilege in Paris to print his works.

From 1760 Campioni was associated with the court of Florence, where he was appointed Kapellmeister of the Grand Duke of Tuscany and Kapellmeister at the Duomo of Florence and at the Oratory of San Giovanni Battista in 1763 . In 1770 Campioni met 14-year-old Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart in Florence , who made music with him and Nardini. Numerous sacred works have survived from the time in Livorno and Florence, including Requiem settings for Emperor Franz I (1766) and Empress Maria Theresa (1780). He had the greatest success with his chamber music, which was reproduced by publishers in England, the Netherlands and France.

His church music is more in the style of antico , in this context he had a rich music library, of which Charles Burney claimed in 1772: Next to Padre Martini he has the largest collection of early music, especially madrigals from the 16th and 17th centuries, the I have ever seen .

Works (selection)

In addition to church music and cantatas, Campioni wrote numerous trio sonatas , duos, a string quartet and harpsichord music. In chamber music, the proximity to Tartini and Nardini's works becomes clear. Several prints were in the private library of the Thomas Jeffersons family .

Vocal works

• Salve Regina op.VIII per soprano e strumenti (Paris, Le Clerc)
• Venere placata scenic (Livorno, 1760)
• Cantata T'amo bell'idol mio
• Fair (1780)
• about 40 other liturgical works for 4 voices and Bc

Orchestral works

• Sinfonia per archi
• Oboe concert
• Concerto per clavicembalo con violini obbligati
• 3 flute concerts
• Concerto for 2 flutes and strings

Chamber music

• 8 trio sonatas for 2 violins and violoncello
• 2 collections with 6 duets for violin and cello (op.7 and op.9, Hummel, Walsch)
• 6 Divertimenti op.8 for 2 violins
• Sonata for violin and harpsichord
• 3 sonata da camera for flute and harpsichord
• 6 harpsichord sonatas
• Fugue in F major for fortepiano

Theoretical work

• Trattato teorico e pratico dell'accompagnamento del cimbalo

Web links

• Sheet music and audio files by Carlo Antonio Campioni in the International Music Score Library Project

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Renzo Braganti: Entry in the Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani - Volume 17 (1974)
2. ^ The Music Library at the University of Virginia, Thomas Jefferson's Music .