Carlo Evasio Soliva

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Carlo Evasio Soliva (born November 27, 1791 in Casale Monferrato , Italy , † December 20, 1853 in Paris ) was an Italian composer of Swiss origin. On September 3, 1816, his first opera composition La testa di bronzo (The Head Made of Bronze) was premiered at the Teatro alla Scala in Milan , based on a libretto by Felice Romani , which won first place in a competition at La Scala.

Life

Soliva was the offspring of a Swiss chocolatier family from Semione who immigrated to Italy. He studied piano and composition at the Milan Conservatory, where thanks to his talent he soon rose to the top of the class. In 1815 he got a job as a conductor at the Teatro alla Scala . After the successful staging of his first work, Le zingare dell'Asturia , Berenice d'Armenia , 1818 Giulia e Sesto Pompeo and 1824 Elena e Malvina followed. But Soliva was powerless to face the sudden rising star of Gioachino Rossini .

In 1821 he was appointed director of the Institute for Music and Declamation in Warsaw , where he met the young Frédéric Chopin . In November 1830 he was given the honor of conducting the world premiere of Chopin's 1st Piano Concerto . In 1832 the Tsar engaged him at the court in St. Petersburg for various musical compositions (chamber and choral music). Through his work there was a lively contact with Glinka and Gogol . In 1841 he returned from Russia to Switzerland and settled in the Ticino Semione in the birthplace of his father . He spent the last years of his life in Paris with his friends Chopin and George Sand . He composed a Te Deum for the coronation mass of Napoleon III .

Works (selection)

  • La testa di bronzo o sia La capanna solitaria. Libretto text by Felice Romani , Teatro alla Scala, Milan 3 March 1816.
  • Berenice d'Armenia . Libretto text by Jacopo Ferretti after Apostolo Zeno , Teatro Regio, Turin March 1817.
  • Le zingare dell'Asturia. Libretto text by Felice Romani, Teatro alla Scala, Milan 5th August 1817.
  • Giulia e Sesto Pompeo , libretto text by B. Perotti, Teatro alla Scala, Milan February 24, 1818.
  • Elena e Malvina. Libretto text by Felice Romani, Teatro alla Scala, Milan 22 May 1824.
  • Kitaijskaja djewaschka. St. Petersburg 1833?

literature

  • Letizia Meienberg: Carlo Evasio Soliva . In: Andreas Kotte (ed.): Theater Lexikon der Schweiz - Dizionario Teatrale Svizzero. Volume 3, Chronos, Zurich 2005, ISBN 3-0340-0715-9 , p. 1698. (Italian)
  • Carlo Piccardi (musicologist) : Carlo Evasio Soliva. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . February 10, 2012 , accessed February 19, 2020 .
  • Carlo Piccardi: Carlo Soliva. Un compositore di origini ticinesi nella Milano del primo Ottocento. In: Arte & Storia , V 20, Ticino Management, Lugano 2004, pp. 102-106;
  • Paola Carlomagno, Carlo Piccardi,: Giulia e Sesto Pompeo: una documentazione sull'opera di Carlo Soliva, compositore dell'Ottocento tra centro e periferia. Lugano 1998.
  • Carlo Soliva - Operista europeo nel fermento della Milano neoclassica. In: Various authors: Fiori musicologici (Studi in onore di Luigi Ferdinando Tagliavini) , Ed. F. Seydoux, Bologna 2001, pp. 397–479.
  • MGB (Zurigo) per il testo di presentazione de La testa di bronzo di Carlo Soliva (1992), di Sinfonia n.3, Quartetto I, Cinque pezzi per pianoforte, Lamento dell'acqua di Paul Glass (1994), di Canti gregoriani ( 1996), di Madrigali di Claudio Monteverdi (1998), de Il maestro di cappella di Domenico Cimarosa e Fernando Paër, 1999.
  • CPO (Georgsmarienhütte) per il testo di presentazione di Giulia e Sesto Pompeo di Carlo Soliva (2004), di Thyl Claes di Wladimir Vogel , 2007.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Carlo Evasio Soliva (Italian) on ricercamusica.ch/dizionario/ (accessed on: December 9, 2017.)
  2. ↑ Hannes Maurer: Ticino valleys Ticino worlds - history and stories . Verlag NZZ, Zurich 2002, ISBN 3-85823-973-9 , p. 217 .
personal data
SURNAME Soliva, Carlo Evasio
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Soliva, Carlo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian composer of Swiss origin
DATE OF BIRTH November 27, 1791
PLACE OF BIRTH Casale Monferrato , Italy
DATE OF DEATH December 20, 1853
Place of death Paris