Filippo Acciaiuoli (composer)

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Filippo Acciai (u) oli , also Filippo Acciaioli (born February 24, 1637 in Rome , † February 7, 1700 in Rome) was an Italian theater writer, librettist, poet , theater director, composer , librettist, theater engineer and inventor of scenic effects. He was known for the puppet theater he founded and directed, for which he developed machines and wrote plays himself.

Life

Filippo Acciaiuoli came from the Florentine noble family of Acciaiuoli . His parents were Ottaviano Acciaiuoli and Maria Acciaiuoli. Her father, Donato Acciaiuoli, came from another branch of the family, of which she was the last descendant. Filippo's brother was the future Cardinal Niccolò Acciaiuoli . Filippo studied at the Seminario Romano in Rome. Here distinguished by his intelligence and his love for literature. Between 1651 and 1653 he worked in Rome in Latin tragedies and interludes that were given during the Carnival. From 1657 he was in Florence at the court of Cosimo III. de 'Medici . Here he joined the Accademia degli Immobili in January 1657 , an academy that performed comic operas, among other things. As a novice of the Order of Malta, he traveled from 1659 to 1666 at the latest. Well equipped with money, he traveled to the European countries Africa, Asia and America. Between 1664 and 1966 he participated in at least four caravans. This participation in caravans was a prerequisite for his appointment as Knight of the Order of Malta on August 9, 1666. During the reign of Clement IX. , between 1667 and 1669, he returned to Rome. There in 1669 his brother Niccolo was taken over by Clemens IX. appointed cardinal. In Rome he lived in the circle of Queen Christina of Sweden and the Roman nobility such as Cardinal Flavio Chigi and Lorenzo Onofrio Colonna , the Duke of Paliano. He was the leading figure in many spectacular Roman opera productions over the next three decades. He was involved in most of the performances at Palazzo Chigi . He invented theater machines, wrote libretti and was instrumental in the organization of almost all major opera and theater productions. Il Girello , fantastica commedia musicale [fantastic musical comedy] or a dramma burlesca , a forerunner of the opera buffa , was performed in the Palazzo Colonna on February 11, 1668 during the carnival season. Jacopo Melani (1623–1676) wrote the music for Acciaiuoli's libretto. Alessandro Stradella set the prologue by Giovanni Filippo Appoloni (around 1620–1688) to music . It has also been performed in several other Italian theaters. In the season 1669 he wrote the libretto L'empio punito [The punished godless] with Appoloni based on the literary model El burlador de Sevilla y convidado de piedra by Tirso de Molina . It was the first musical processing of the Don Juan material and was implemented in music by Alessandro Melani . The first performance took place on February 17, 1669 in the Palazzo Colonna. Seville became a mythological fantasy landscape , Don Juan became Acrimante and Leporello in the libretto became Bibi . In 1670 he received permission to run the first opera house in Rome. The Teatro Tordinona was created on the initiative of the Queen of Sweden, the Contestadino Colonna and other nobles. Acciaiuoli headed it until the spring of 1672 in the introductory season as impresario and inventor of interludes . In 1672 he was a co-founder of the Accademia degli Sfaccendati and he was the driving force behind the productions in Palazzo Chigi, the Chigi country residence in Ariccia , in 1672 and 1673. The director of the Accademia was Cardinal Flavio Chigi . Appoloni was also a member. Were listed La sincerità con la sincerità, overo Il Tirinto with the music of Bernardo Pasquini and Gl'inganni innocenti, overo L'Adalinda, set to music by Pietro Simone Agostini . Acciaiuoli helped to create the libretti. He developed the plots and sketched some spectacular scenes while Appoloni wrote the verses. The main attraction of his productions were the scenic transformations of the set. In his time his name was associated with the puppet theater. For this he staged performances in Rome, Venice and Florence in the 1680s. In Venice he performed Damira placata in 1680 with the music of Marc'Antonio Ziani and in 1681 Ulisse in Feaccia with the music of Cavalier Antonio dal Gaudio (before 1669 – after 1682). The stage was played with wooden puppets while the singers sang in the background. He constructed a puppet theater that consisted of 124 figures and 24 different sets and could be played by one person. He made this a gift to Prince Ferdinando de 'Medici in Florence and recorded it for him. He wrote various pieces for the puppet theater. He developed theater machines that made a big impression on his contemporaries. Lorenzo Onofrio Colonna opened a private theater in 1683, in the planning of which Acciaiuoli was involved. Apparently as early as 1679, in any case in the 1690s, he worked at the second Roman opera house, the Theater Capracanica . From 1690 he was one of the first members of the Accademia dell'Arcadia . His name there was Irenio Amasiano . In addition to his enthusiasm for everything to do with theater, his knowledge of mathematics was widely valued. He also collected and classified old coins.

Works (selection)

Libretti

He wrote the libretti for several operas.

  • Il Girello , Drama Burlesco per Musica , performed in Bologna in 1669. The music came from Jacopo Melani (1623–1676). In addition to Bologna, it has also been performed in other Italian theaters. Among other things, in Rome with the help of puppets as an interlude of the Comica del cielo, ovvero la Baltassara by Antonio Maria Abbatini based on a libretto by Giulio Rospigliosi , later Pope Clement IX.
  • The libretto L'empio punito was set to music by Alessandro Melani in 1669 and performed under the direction of Acciaiuolis on February 17, 1669 in the Palazzo Colonna in Rome.
  • Damira placata. Music: Marc'Antonio Ziani . Performed with puppets in the Carnival 1680 in the Teatro di San Moisé in Venice. The Croatian poet Antun Gleđević (1656–1728) wrote a Croatian constitution for the theater in Dubrovnik .
  • L'Ulisse in Feacia, set to music by Antonio del Gaudio, 1681, first performed with puppets in the Teatro Zane in San Moise in Venice
  • I Campi Elisi for the puppet theater
  • L'Inferno for the puppet theater
  • Il noce di Benevento for the puppet theater
  • Il novello Giasone
  • Chi è causa del suo mal pianga se stesso , 1682, Palazzo Colonna, Rome

music

In addition to working on several text books on operas, Acciaiuoli is said to have also composed. It is believed that he worked on several scores. He is said to have set his own text books, which were initially set to music by other composers, later himself. François-Joseph Fétis and Robert Eitner mentioned performances of Il Girello with the music of Acciaiuolis in Modena in 1675. A surviving example is said to be a score for L'empio punito acquired by the Library of Congress in 1925. In addition to the text book, the music is said to come from Acciaiuoli. Also to

literature

Web links

Digital copies

  1. ↑ Il Girello as Digitalisat the Munich Digitization Center
  2. ↑ Damira placata as a digital copy on Google Books
  3. ↑ L'Vlisse in Feaccia as a digital copy in the Library of Congress

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f Antonietta Sammartano: Filippo Acciaiuoli. In: World Encyclopedia of Puppetry Arts. Union Internationale de la Marionette UNIMA, April 26, 2016, accessed on May 13, 2020 (Italian).
  2. ↑ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p Norbert Dubowy (Fabio Bisogni): Acciaiuoli, Acciajoli, Filippo . In: Ludwig Finscher (Hrsg.): The music in past and present . 2nd Edition. Person part, band 1 (Aagard - Baez). Bärenreiter / Metzler, Kassel et al. 1999, ISBN 3-7618-1111-X , Sp. 83-86 .
  3. ↑ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o Lowell Lindgren: Acciaiuoli, Filippo. In: Grove Music Online. Oxford University Press, 2001, accessed June 12, 2020 .
  4. ↑ a b J. F. Reichardt: Corrections and additions to Gerber's Lexicon of Tonkünstler . In: F. Ae.Kunzen; JF Reichardt (Ed.): Musical monthly writing . tape 1 , no. 1 . Berlinische Musikhandlung, Berlin 1793, p. 3 ( google.de [accessed on May 13, 2020]).
  5. ↑ a b c d e Clementina Rotondi: ACCIAIUOLI, Filippo . In: Treccani (ed.): Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani . tape 1 , 1960 (Italian, treccani.it ).
  6. ↑ L'Empio punito. In: https://www.altemusik.at . Innsbruck Festival of Early Music, 2020, accessed on June 13, 2020 .
  7. ↑ David J. Book: Magic Flutes and Enchanted Forests: The Supernatural in Eighteenth-Century Musical Theater . University of Chicago Press, Chicago 2009, ISBN 978-0-226-07811-3 , pp. 209 ( google.de [accessed June 13, 2020]).
  8. ↑ Teresa Chirico: La Datira: un dramma ritrovato di Giulio Rospigliosi . In: Rivista Italiana di Musicologia . No. 47 , 2012, ISSN  0035-6867 , p. 60-81 , JSTOR : 24327200 .
  9. ↑ Horst Reimann: The function of music in the Opera dei Pupi . In: Wolfgang Lipp (Ed.): Society and Music: Paths to Music Sociology; Ceremony for Robert H. Reichardt on his 65th birthday . Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1992, ISBN 978-3-428-07449-5 , pp. 446 ff . ( google.de [accessed on May 13, 2020]).
  10. ^ Eleanor Selfridge-Field: Operas performed with puppets . In: A New Chronology of Venetian Opera and Related Genres, 1660-1760 . Stanford University Press, 2007, ISBN 978-0-8047-4437-9 , pp. 623 f . (English, google.de [accessed on May 13, 2020]).
  11. ↑ Viktoria Franić Tomić, Slobodan Prosperov Novak, Ennio Stipčević: The Italian Opera Libretto and Dubrovnik Theater: (17th and 18th Century) . Hollitzer Wissenschaftsverlag, Vienna 2020, ISBN 978-3-99012-799-5 , p. 54 f . (English, google.de [accessed on May 13, 2020]).
  12. ^ Carl Engel: Views and Reviews . In: The Musical Quarterly . tape 29 , no. 4 , 1943, ISSN  0027-4631 , p. 521-530 , JSTOR : 739427 .
personal data
SURNAME Acciaiuoli, Filippo
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Acciaioli, Filippo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian librettist, poet, theater director, composer, theater engineer and inventor of scenic effects
DATE OF BIRTH February 24, 1637
PLACE OF BIRTH Rome
DATE OF DEATH February 7, 1700
Place of death Rome