Domenico David

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Domenico David (* in Veneto ; † June 30, 1698 in Venice ) was an Italian librettist .

Life

Little is known about David's life. He was a doctor of medicine and one of the first members of the Accademia degli Animosi under the name Osiro Cedreatico. Together with Apostolo Zeno , Silvio Stampiglia and Francesco Silvani, he belongs to the first generation of reform librettists who endeavored to overcome the traditional operatic style of the 17th century with its immoral components, improbabilities, miracles and mannerisms. David was supported by several important Italian families.

His first poems are from the 1670s. It was not until 1691 that David wrote his first opera libretto, L'amante eroe , which was performed by Marc'Antonio Ziani in the Venetian Teatro San Salvatore . Pietro Metastasio used this text in 1729 as one of his sources for the opera libretto Alessandro nell'Indie .

In the following year 1692 David's second libretto La forza della virtù was performed at the Teatro San Giovanni Crisostomo in the setting by Carlo Francesco Pollarolo . Friedrich Christian Bressand translated it into German for the composer Reinhard Keizer . This version was given in 1700 under the title La forza della virtù or The Power of Virtue in the Hamburg Opera on Gänsemarkt . In 1712 a setting by Giuseppe Maria Orlandini appeared in Rome under the title Ataulfo ​​re de 'Goti, ovvero La forza della virtù . In 1717 an anonymous setting was played in Venice under the title La virtù coronata . Pietro Metastasio used La forza della virtù as a template for his own first opera text Siface re di Numidia , which was performed in Naples in 1723 with music by Francesco Feo .

David's third opera libretto is Amor e dover. It was also performed at the Teatro San Giovanni Crisostomo in Venice in 1696. The music is again by Carlo Francesco Pollarolo.

Works

  • L'amante eroe, set to music by Marc'Antonio Ziani , Venice 1691; 1696 in Turin and Ferrara.
  • La forza della virtù, first set to music by Carlo Francesco Pollarolo , Venice 1692; 1694 in Livorno and Bologna; 1699 as Creonte, tiranno di Tebe in Naples; 1700 in Ferrara; 1702 in Florence; 1703 in Verona.
  • Amor e dover, set to music by Carlo Francesco Pollarolo , Venice 1696.

Digital copies

  1. ↑ L'amante eroe. Libretto (Italian), Venice 1691. Digitized at Google Books .
  2. ↑ La forza della virtù. Libretto (Italian), Venice 1693. Digitized version of the Museo internazionale e biblioteca della musica di Bologna .
  3. ↑ Amor e dover. Libretto (Italian), Venice 1697. Digitized at Google Books .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Harris S. Saunders:  David, Domenico. In: Grove Music Online (English; subscription required).
  2. ^ Reinhard Strohm: Dramma Per Musica: Italian Opera Seria of the Eighteenth Century. Yale University Press, 1997, p. 122 f.
  3. ^ Winton Dean , John Merrill Knapp: Handel's Operas 1726–1741. Boydell, Woodbridge 2006, ISBN 978-184383-268-3 , p. 172.
  4. ^ Klaus Zelm: Reinhard Keiser's operas - studies on chronology, tradition and style development (= musicological writings. Volume 8). Musikverlag Emil Katzbichler, Munich – Salzburg 1975, ISBN 3-87397-107-0 , p. 47.
  5. ↑ La forza della virtù or Die Macht der Tugend (Reinhard Keizer) in the Corago information system of the University of Bologna , accessed on July 7, 2016.
  6. ↑ Ataulfo ​​re de 'Goti, ovvero La forza della virtù (Giuseppe Maria Orlandini) in the Corago information system of the University of Bologna , accessed on July 7, 2016.
  7. ↑ La virtù coronata (AA. VV.) In the Corago information system of the University of Bologna , accessed on July 7, 2016.
  8. ^ Siface (Francesco Feo) in the Corago information system of the University of Bologna , accessed on July 7, 2016.
  9. ↑ a b Amor e dover (Carlo Francesco Pollarolo) in the Corago information system of the University of Bologna , accessed on July 7, 2016.
  10. ↑ L'amante eroe (Marc'Antonio Ziani) in the Corago information system of the University of Bologna , accessed on July 7, 2016.
  11. ↑ La forza della virtù (Carlo Francesco Pollarolo) in the Corago information system of the University of Bologna , accessed on July 7, 2016.
personal data
SURNAME David, Domenico
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian librettist
DATE OF BIRTH 17th century
PLACE OF BIRTH Veneto
DATE OF DEATH June 30, 1698
Place of death Venice