Catterino Cavos

Catterino Cavos

Catterino Cavos ( Katerino exhilarated Cavos , Russian Катерино Альбертович Кавос , scientific. Transliteration Katerino Al'bertovic Cavos ; Catarino Camillo Cavos , including: Kavos , * the thirtieth October 1775 in Venice , April † 28 ^{. Jul} / 10. May  1840 ^greg. in Saint Petersburg ) was a Russian composer of Italian origin.

The son of the director of the Teatro La Fenice , Alberto Giovanni Cavos completed his musical training in his hometown and at the age of twelve already composed a cantata that was performed on the occasion of a visit by the Grand Duke Leopold . At the age of fourteen he became organist at the Basilica di San Marco .

In 1797 he came to Saint Petersburg with an Italian theater company, after which he was given a job at the Imperial Theater. After initially having to compose vaudevilles for a French troupe (including Soliman second and Les Trois bossus ), in 1803 he became conductor of Italian and Russian opera and at the same time teacher at the Collegium St. Katharina. From 1811 he taught at the Smolny Institute .

As a conductor, Cavos introduced the Russian audience to the operas of Luigi Cherubini , Étienne Méhul , Carl Maria von Weber and others. In 1836 he also conducted the world premiere of Michail Glinka's opera A Life for the Tsar, based on a libretto by Yegor Fjodorowitsch von Rosen , which he had set to music twenty years earlier - he granted Glinka the higher artistic rank.

Cavos himself composed more than thirty operas, as well as ballets and other stage music. He made particular contributions to the training of Russian opera singers. Singers like Anna Vorobjowa , Jelisaveta Sandunowa , Jekaterina Semjonowa , Vasily Samoilow , Grigori Klimowski , Pyotr Slow and the famous bass-baritone Ossip Petrov emerged from his school.

His son Albert Cavos and his son Caesar Cavos became known as architects, his son Iwan Cavos directed the Italian Opera in Saint Petersburg.

Works

• L'Alchimiste , Opera, 1798–1803
• L'Intrigue dans les ruines , Opera, 1798–1803
• Le Mariage d'Aubigny , Opera, 1798–1803
• Le trois Bossus , Opera, 1798–1803
• Soliman second, ou Les trois Sultanes (based on Charles-Simon Favart 's comedy verse of the same name), Vaudeville, 1798
• The Dnieper Nixe (libretto by Nikolai Stepanowitsch Krasnopolski based on Ferdinand Kauer's Das Donauweibchen ), comical fantastic opera, 1804
• Prince Invisible, or Licharda the Magician (after Jean-Baptiste-Auguste Hapdé : Le Prince invisible, ou Arlequin Protée ), great comic fantastic opera, 1805
• The love letter , comic opera, 1806
• He flees from his own bride , comic opera with choirs and ballets, 1806
• Ilja der Recke (Libretto: Iwan Andrejewitsch Krylow ), great comic fantastic opera with choirs, ballets and battles, 1806
• Rusalka , comic fantastic opera, 1807
• Three humpbacked brothers (libretto: Aristarch Wladimirowitsch Luknitzki ), 1808
• Die Sonderlinge, or Die von Dicht und Musik Wahnwitzigen (libretto: Pjotr ​​Nikolajewitsch Kobiakow ) based on Gaëtano Rossi's libretto for Johann Simon Mayr's farce Che originali , 1809
• The Cossack Poet , anecdotal operatic vaudeville, 1812
• The imagined invisible, or confusion in the tavern (after Carl Ludwig Costenoble : Herr Simon Plattkopf, the invisible ), comic opera, 1813
• Suliman the Second, or The Three Sultans (after Charles-Simon Favart : Soliman second, ou Les trois Sultans ), comic opera with ballets, 1813
• The Cossacks on the Rhine , Opera, 1814
• Bražkin the Tenant, or Selling the Village , comic opera, 1815
• Ivan Susanin , historical opera, 1815
• The ruins of Babylon, or the triumph and fall of Giafar al Barmeki (after René-Charles Guilbert de Pixérécourt : Les Ruines de Babylone, ou Giafar er Zaida ), historical opera, 1818
• Dobrynja Nikitic, or the Ghost Castle, fantastic opera, 1818
• Pourceaugnac the good-for-nothing, or Rochus Pumpernickel in a new guise , Christmas Vaudeville, 1819
• The magic drum, or the benevolent dervish (after Emanuel Schikaneder : the benevolent dervish or magic drum and bell cap ), comical fantastic opera, 1819
• New Confusion, or The Bridegrooms of Strange Brides , comic opera, 1820
• La Bayadère , Opera, 1820
• The moonwalker , Opern-Vaudeville, 1821
• Surprises, or all sorts and everything in need , 1821
• Naina, or The Enchanted Rosenstock , fantastic opera, 1822
• The Firebird, or The Adventures of Tsarevich Levsil , (Libretto: Michail Stepanowitsch Lebedew ), fantastic opera 3 acts, 1822
• Svetlana, or Hundred Years in One Day , Fantastic Opera Ballad, 1822
• The Hermit of the Wild Mountain (after Amable Vilain de Saint-Hilaire : Le Solitaire, ou L'Exile du Mont Sauvage ), romantic opera, 1823
• The Mountains of Piedmont, or The Devil's Bridge (after Jean Baptiste Augustin Hapdé : Le Pont du Diable ), Opera, 1825

literature

• Claudio Casini:  Cavos, Catterino. In: Alberto M. Ghisalberti (Ed.): Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani (DBI). Volume 23:  Cavallucci-Cerretesi. Istituto della Enciclopedia Italiana, Rome 1979.