Ferdinando Carulli

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Ferdinando Carulli, portrait of Julien Léopold Boilly (1796–1874)

Ferdinando Maria Meinrado Pascale Rosario Carulli , also Fernando Carulli in literature (born February 10, 1770 in Naples ; died February 17, 1841 in Paris ), was an Italian composer and guitarist of the early Romantic period.

Life

Ferdinando Carulli first learned to play the cello , but soon showed a strong interest in the guitar . He began to teach himself to play the guitar when he was around twenty. From now on, this instrument was his focus. Since there was no guitar teacher to be found in his hometown of Naples at that time, he was forced to develop his own playing technique. He also studied music theory .

After he had sufficiently developed his technical skills on the guitar, he gave concerts first in Naples and later also outside of Italy, especially in France. It was there that he met his future wife Marie-Josephine Boyer, with whom he had a son, Gustavo Carulli. After these concert tours, he first moved to Milan .

Some of the first publications of compositions for guitar were published by Ricordi in Milan around 1807 . After a stay in Vienna , he finally settled in Paris from April 1808. There he was considered the city's first guitarist in the aristocratic salons. Carulli was the first musician who made the guitar "socially acceptable" in Paris. François-Joseph Fétis reports in his biography universelle : “The artist arrived in Paris in April 1808, gave several concerts and was an overwhelming success. He soon became a homme à la mode , both as a virtuoso and as a teacher ”. It is said that he was not the most spirited musician, but that he was able to play at high speed and precisely. With Dionisio Aguado and Mauro Giuliani , he was an early representative of the fingernail attack.

Together with the instrument maker René François Lacôte , he made important contributions to the technical improvement of the guitar. Together with Lacôte, he developed a ten-string guitar ( décachorde ) and at the same time brought out a textbook especially for the ten-string instrument (op. 293). He wrote a popular guitar school ( Metodo. Op. 27) and composed a total of around 400 works, the majority for guitar and flute .

Works and editions of works (selection)

Carulli left a total of more than 300 compositions of varying quality. The main accents of his work are the pleasing virtuoso pieces and his chamber music.

  • Nice and Fileno, Sonate sentimentale, op.2 (a musical story)
  • Sonate pour la guitar, op.5
  • Concert for guitar in A major op.8
  • Trio op.9 (for flute , violin and guitar)
  • Trio op.12 (for flute, violin and guitar)
  • Metodo completo per chitarra. Op. 27. 1809; Supplementary volumes: Op. 61 (1810) and 75 (1810) and the Supplément à la Méthode , Op. 192, around 1822. Carulli's most famous guitar school, Op. 241, published around 1825.
  • Walter Götze (Ed.): 6 little duos, op. 34. (In two booklets for two guitars). B. Schott's Sons, Mainz (= guitar archive. Volume 65-66).
  • A total of 60 duos for violin and guitar.
  • Duo for guitar and piano op.37
  • Solo op.76 n.2
  • Trois Duos Nocturnes op.90 (for 2 guitars)
  • 3 serenades op.96 (for 2 guitars)
  • 6 Waltz op.101
  • Duos op.104 / 1 and 3 (for flute and guitar)
  • Six Sérénades, op.109
  • 24 preludes, op.114
  • 2 duets for viola and guitar, op.137
  • Notturno concertante for guitar duo, op.118
  • Guitar Concerto in E minor, Op. 140 "Petit Concerto de Société"
  • Nocturno, op.190
  • “La girafe à Paris” Divertissement Africo-Français op. 306
  • Six Divertissements brillants op.317
  • Six andantes op.320
  • Walter Götze (Ed.): 18 very easy pieces, op. 333. Book 1. B. Schott's Sons, Mainz (= guitar archive. Volume 67).
  • Fantasia, op.337
  • "Three days" (about the revolution days of 1830)
  • Capriccio en Thursday

Web links

Commons : Ferdinando Carulli  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ François-Joseph Fétis: Biographie universelle des musiciens et bibliographie générale de la musique (1867)
  2. ^ Konrad Ragossnig: Handbook of the guitar and lute . Mainz, 1978, p. 102
  3. ↑ Méthode Complète pour le Decachorde (Facsimile, PDF; 1.6 MB)
  4. ^ Ruggero Chiesa (ed.): Trio per flauto, violino e chitarra op.12. Edizioni Suvini Zerboni, Milan.
  5. ↑ gitarrenbank.de .
  6. ↑ Mario Sicca , Rita Maria Fleres (ed.): Ferdinando Carulli, Duo per chitarra e pianoforte op. 37. Edizioni Suvini Zerboni, Milan.
  7. ^ A. Company, R. Michelucci (ed.): Solo op. 76 n.2 Edizioni Suvini Zerboni, Milan.
  8. ^ Rugger Chiesa (Ed.): Sei valzer op. 101. Edizioni Suvini Zerboni, Milan.
  9. ^ A. Company (ed.): Ventiquattro Preludi op.114 per chitarre. Edizioni Suvini Zerboni, Milan.
  10. ^ Ruggero Chiesa (ed.): Due duetti per viola e chitarra op. 137. Edizioni Suvini Zerboni, Milan.
  11. ^ Ruggero Chiesa (ed.): Notturno concertante op. 118 per due chitarre. Edizioni Suvini Zerboni, Milan.
  12. ^ Ruggero Chiesa (ed.): Sei Andanti op. 320. Edizioni Suvini Zerboni, Milan.
personal data
SURNAME Carulli, Ferdinando
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Carulli, Ferdinando Maria Meinrado Rosario
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian composer and guitarist
DATE OF BIRTH February 10, 1770
PLACE OF BIRTH Naples
DATE OF DEATH February 17, 1841
Place of death Paris