Davide Perez

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Davide Perez. Copper engraving by J. Vitalba after a drawing by Francesco Bartolozzi, 1774–1780?

David (e) Perez (also: Pérez , * 1711 in Naples ; † October 30, 1778 in Lisbon ) was an Italian opera composer , a representative of the so-called Neapolitan School . For a large part of his life he worked as a conductor and teacher in Lisbon.

Life

The son of Neapolitan parents - occasional references to Spanish origins are wrong - entered the Conservatorio di Santa Maria di Loreto at the age of eleven , where he remained as a master student until 1733. His teachers were Francesco Mancini (counterpoint), Giovanni Veneziano (vocals and piano) and Francesco Barbella (violin).

Immediately after completing his training, he entered the service of Diego Naselli, the Sicilian Prince of Aragon, and began a career as a theater composer, with which he quickly built a good reputation. As early as 1735 he received a commission for the Teatro San Bartolomeo in Naples and composed his opera La nemica amante , which was successfully performed there on November 4, 1735 and previously on the occasion of the king's birthday in the Palazzo Reale. He was then appointed vice-bandmaster of the royal Cappella Palatina in Palermo . In this position he wrote the serenatas Il Trionfo di Venere for the wedding celebration of the royal couple in 1738 and L'Atlanta for the queen's birthday in 1739. In 1740 he returned to Naples for a short time, where he performed the comic operas L'amor pittore and I travestimenti amorosi and the commissioned opera Siroe, re di Persia wrote. He then became the first conductor of the royal chapel in Palermo. During this time he wrote his operas L'eroismo di Scipione (1741), Medea (1744) and Demetrio (1746). In autumn 1748 he left Palermo with an official leave of absence while retaining half his salary. He returned to Naples with his patron Diego Naselli, where Demetrio was performed under the pseudonym "Egidio Lasnel" in the Teatro San Carlo . Here he composed the operas Artaserse and Alessandro nelle Indie the following year . The latter was performed on November 4, 1749 in a production by the theater architect Vincenzo Re. At the end of 1749 he went to Vienna on the recommendation of the Princess di Belmonte to the librettist Pietro Metastasio , but returned to Italy in 1750. There he wrote his operas Semiramide and Farnace for Rome, as well as Didone abbandonata for Genoa and Zenobia for Milan in 1751 .

In 1752 Perez received an invitation from the Portuguese King Joseph I to Lisbon, where he worked until the end of his life as "Cavaliere dell 'Ordine di Cristo", conductor and teacher of the princesses. At the beginning of his activity in Portugal he wrote his operas Demofoonte and Adriano in Siria . There was also a performance of Siroe with the castrato soprano Gizziello and the tenor Anton Raaff . Perez had a decisive influence on the development of Portuguese opera and church music and established the Neapolitan School in Portugal. In addition to the operas already mentioned, he composed many other works for the city's theaters as well as Lucio Vero for Verona (1754) and Ezio for London (1755). On March 31, 1755, the Teatro dos Pacos da Ribeira (the Ópera do Tejo ) was opened with a new version of Alessandro . In this performance, reported by the contemporary music historian Charles Burney , the soprano Caffarelli and the tenor Gregorio Babbi took part. After the earthquake in Lisbon on November 1, 1755, Perez was forced to limit his work as an opera composer and therefore concentrated more on church music. He also composed several cantatas and serenatas for the royal family.

In old age he went blind, but was able to continue composing. When he died in 1778 he was wealthy and highly honored. He was succeeded as first conductor and teacher by João de Sousa Carvalho . Luísa Rosa de Aguiar , later known as "La Todi", was one of his singing students .

The musicologist Hermann Kretzschmar put Perez in his history of the opera from 1919 on a par with Domènech Terradellas , Gian Francesco de Majo , Niccolò Jommelli and Tommaso Traetta . He considered the Solimano to be a masterpiece of "wealth of invention and sensation, originality of means and design". He summed up his admiration as follows: "If all the opera composers of the Neapolitan school had been like this one, it would have taken no luck."

Works

Stage works

  • La nemica amante (lyricist unknown), dramma per musica (November 4, 1735, Naples, Palazzo Reale and Teatro San Bartolomeo)
  • Il trionfo di Venere , Serenata (1738, Palermo)
  • L'Atlanta , Serenata (1739, Palermo)
  • I travestimenti amorosi ( Antonio Polomba ), commedia per musica in two acts (July 10, 1740, Naples, Palazzo Reale)
  • L'amor pittore (Nicola Giuvo), componimento drammatico civile (July 24, 1740, Naples, Palazzo Reale)
  • Siroe, re di Persia ( Pietro Metastasio ), dramma per musica (November 4, 1740, Naples, Teatro San Carlo ; 1752, Lisbon, Teatro di Corte)
  • L'eroismo di Scipione (1741, Palermo)
  • Demetrio (Pietro Metastasio), dramma per musica (first version June 30, 1741, Palermo; second version January 1765, Lisbon, Teatro de Salvaterra)
  • Astartea (1743, Palermo)
  • Leucippo ( Giovanni Claudio Pasquini ), favola pastorale (1744 Palermo, Teatro di Santa Cecilia)
  • Medea (1744, Palermo)
  • Alessandro nelle Indie (Pietro Metastasio), dramma per musica (first version January 1744, Genoa, Teatro Falcone; second version March 31, 1755, Lisbon, Ópera do Tejo )
  • Merope ( Apostolo Zeno ; Carnival 1744, Genoa, Teatro Falcone)
  • L'errore amoroso (Antonio Palomba), commedia per musica (Carnival 1745, Palermo, Teatro di Santa Cecilia)
  • L'isola incantata (1746, Palermo)
  • L'amor fra congionti , commedia per musica (Carnival 1746, Palermo, Teatro di Santa Cecilia)
  • L'Artaserse (Pietro Metastasio), dramma per musica (September 29, 1748, Florence, Teatro della Pergola )
  • La clemenza di Tito (Pietro Metastasio), dramma per musica (1749, Naples, Teatro San Carlo)
  • La Semiramide riconosciuta (Pietro Metastasio), dramma per musica (February 3, 1749, Rome, Teatro delle Dame)
  • Andromaca (1750, Vienna, Court Theater)
  • Vologeso (Apostolo Zeno; 1750, Vienna, Court Theater); revised as Lucio Vero (1754, Verona); revised as La Berenice (Carnival 1762, Verona)
  • Didone abbandonata (Pietro Metastasio), dramma per musica (1751, Genoa)
  • Ezio (Pietro Metastasio), dramma per musica (Carnival 1751, Milan, Teatro Regio Ducale)
  • Il Farnace (Apostolo Zeno, revised Antonio Maria Lucchini ?), Dramma per musica (Carnival 1751, Turin, Teatro Regio )
  • Zenobia (Pietro Metastasio), dramma per musica (September 15, 1751, Milan, Teatro Regio Ducale)
  • Il Demofoonte (Pietro Metastasio), dramma per musica (1752, Lisbon, Teatro di Corte)
  • L'olimpiade (Pietro Metastasio), dramma per musica (April 1754, Lisbon, Teatro di Corte)
  • L'eroe cinese (Pietro Metastasio), dramma per musica (June 6th 1753, Lisbon, Teatro di Corte)
  • Adriano in Siria (Pietro Metastasio), dramma per musica (Carnival 1754, Lisbon, Teatro de Salvaterra)
  • L'Ipermestra (Pietro Metastasio), dramma per musica (March 31, 1754, Lisbon, Teatro di Corte)
  • Il re pastore (Pietro Metastasio), dramma per musica (April 1756, Cremona, Nuovo Teatro)
  • Solimano ( Giovanni Ambrogio Migliavacca ), dramma per musica (Carnival 1757, Lisbon, Teatro de Salvaterra)
  • Enea in Italia (1759, Lisbon, Salvaterra)
  • Arminio (after Antonio Salvi ), Pasticcio (1760, London, King's Theater am Haymarket )
  • La vera felicità ( Mariano Bergonzoni Mortelli ), componimento drammatico in two acts (1761, Lisbon, Palazzo Queluz)
  • La Berenice (Carnival 1762, Verona, Teatro Filarmonico )
  • Giulio Cesare (1762, Lisbon)
  • L'isola disabitata (Pietro Metastasio), componimento drammatico in one act (1767, Lisbon, Palazzo Queluz)
  • Le cinesi (Pietro Metastasio), componimento drammatico in one act (1769, Lisbon)
  • Creusa in Delfo ( Gaetano Martinelli ), dramma per musica in two acts with choirs and dances (January 1774, Lisbon, Teatro de Salvaterra)
  • Il ritorno di Ulisse in Itaca (Mariano Bergonzoni Mortelli), componimento drammatico in one act (1774, Lisbon, Palazzo Queluz)
  • L'eroe coronato (Gaetano Martinelli), Serenata in one act (June 7th 1775, Lisbon)
  • La pace fra la virtù e la bellezza (Pietro Metastasio), componimento drammatico in one act (December 17, 1777, Lisbon)

Church music

  • La passione di Gesù Cristo (Palermo, 1742)
  • Mattutino de 'Morti (London, 1774)
  • Il Martirio di S. Bartolomeo , oratorio in two parts (March 1779, Padua)
  • some fairs
  • Mattutino del Ss. Natale
  • Lamentazioni and Responsorij per i tre Uffizii delle Tembre
  • Responsory per la settimana Santa
  • Victime paschalis
  • Responsory to the fiesta de Navidad
  • two salvo regina
  • Psalm Memento Domine
  • Psalm In exitu Israel
  • Psalm Nisi dominus
  • Psalm Haec dies
  • Psalm Haec dies
  • Quoniam do
  • two misereres
  • three laudations pueri
  • Libera
  • Dixit
  • Magnificat
  • two credo
  • Et incarnatus
  • Tenebrae factae sunt
  • Motetti concertati

Other works

  • Serenata (1733)
  • L'Amor prigioniero , cantate profane
  • several arias, duets, solfeggias
  • Textbooks for singing and figured bass

literature

  • Maurício Dottori: The Church Music of Davide Perez and Niccolò Jommelli, with especial emphasis on funeral music , Curitiba (Brazil) 2008

Web links

Commons : Davide Perez  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Recordings

  • Mattutino de 'morti. Ghislieri Choir & Consort, Giulio Prandi, Roberta Invernizzi , Salvo Vitale. Sony International - Deutsche Harmonia Mundi 2014

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Mauricio Dottori and Paul J. Jackson:  Perez, David [Davide]. In: Grove Music Online (English; subscription required).
  2. ↑ a b c David DiChiera and Wilhelm Pfannkuch (transl.):  Perez, Davide. In: Friedrich Blume (Hrsg.): The music in past and present (MGG). First edition, Volume 10 (Opera - Rappresentazione). Bärenreiter / Metzler, Kassel et al. 1962, DNB 550439609 , Sp. 1038-1044 (= Digital Library Volume 60, pp. 58897-58910).
  3. ^ Hermann Kretzschmar : History of the Opera , Breitkopf & Härtel, Leipzig 1919, pp. 187–189 ( online at Archive.org ).
personal data
SURNAME Perez, Davide
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Perez, David; Perez, Davide; Perez, David
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian opera composer
DATE OF BIRTH 1711
PLACE OF BIRTH Naples
DATE OF DEATH October 30, 1778
Place of death Lisbon