Carlo Luigi Pietragrua

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Carlo Luigi Pietragrua , also called Carlo Luigi Pietro Grua or Pietro Grua (* around 1665 in Florence or Milan , † March 27, 1726 in Venice ), was an Italian singer, composer , conductor and choirmaster . He spent most of his life as a musician at courts in Dresden, Düsseldorf and Heidelberg. He mainly composed sacred music, chamber duets, arias and some operas.

Life

The life of Pietragrua can only be proven incompletely. He came from an Italian family of musicians, and Milan or Florence is said to be his place of birth. Pietragrua was accepted as alto in the electoral court orchestra in Dresden in 1687 through the mediation of Kapellmeister Carlo Pallavicino . In 1693 he held the office of Vice-Kapellmeister there, a year later the same office in Düsseldorf under Johann Hugo von Wilderer in the court orchestra of Elector Johann Wilhelm . From 1705 to 1707 he worked at the imperial court in Vienna, but then returned to Düsseldorf. After the merger of the Innsbruck and Düsseldorf court orchestras under Elector Karl III. Philipp , Pietragrua is traceable in Heidelberg in 1718. From February 26, 1719 until his death in 1726, he was maestro di coro at the Ospedale della Pietà , one of the four orphanages for girls in Venice. During this time in Venice he composed several operas, which were premiered at various opera houses in the city.

Works

Stage design for the opera Camillo Generoso , Opernhaus am Taschenberg , Dresden 1693

Stage works

  • Camillo generoso , "dramma" in 3 acts, performed at the carnival in Dresden in 1693
  • Telegono , “tragedia per musica” in 5 acts, performed at the carnival in 1697 in Düsseldorf, libretto by Stefano Benedetto Pallavicini
  • Il pastor fido , “tragicommedia pastorale” in 5 acts, premiered at the Carnival in 1721 in the Teatro Sant'Angelo in Venice. A revised version was played in Paris in 1729
  • La fede ne 'tradimenti , “dramma per musica” in 3 acts, performed in autumn 1721 at the Teatro Sant'Angelo in Venice
  • Romolo e Tazio , “dramma per musica” in 3 acts, performed in autumn 1722 at the Teatro San Giovanni Crisostomo in Venice

Arias and instrumental music

  • The fifth element of the world , serenade, libretto by Giorgio Maria Rapparini , premiered in November 1718 in Heidelberg
  • Serenata , performed around 1720/21 at the Ospedale della Pietà in Venice
  • Tortorella , for bass and basso continuo
  • Dia le mosse a miei contenti , aria for tenor, treble recorders, tenor and bass recorders and basso continuo.

See also

Web links

Commons : Carlo Luigi Pietragrua  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Carlo Luigi Pietragrua in the Bavarian Musicians' Lexicon Online (BMLO)
  2. ^ List of stage works by Carlo Luigi Pietragrua based on the MGG in Operone
  3. ^ Colin Timms: Polymath of the Baroque. Agostino Steffani and His Music . Oxford University Press, New York 2003, ISBN 0-19-515473-8 , p. 95 ( online at Google Books)
  4. ↑ Personal data in the psalm database
  5. ↑ Data on the stage design by Camillo Generoso at Deutsche Fotothek
  6. ^ Digitized version of the Telegono libretto at the University and State Library in Düsseldorf
personal data
SURNAME Pietragrua, Carlo Luigi
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Grua, Carlo Luigi Pietro; Grua, Pietro
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian composer, conductor and choir director
DATE OF BIRTH around 1665
PLACE OF BIRTH Florence or Milan
DATE OF DEATH March 27, 1726
Place of death Venice