Francesco Antonio Vallotti

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Francesco Antonio Vallotti

Francesco Antonio Vallotti (born June 11, 1697 in Vercelli , † January 10, 1780 in Padua ) was an Italian composer , music theorist and organist .

Life

Vallotti was first a student of Giovanni Ambrogio Bissone (1646-1726), Kapellmeister at St. Eusebius in Vercelli. In 1716 he joined the Franciscan Order and became a priest in 1720. In 1722 he took over the position of organist in Padua and in 1730 became Kapellmeister there as the successor to Antonio Calegari (1656–1742), with whom he had presumably studied before. He held this position for 50 years. From 1730 the violin virtuoso and theoretician Giuseppe Tartini was concertmaster under him . Georg Joseph Vogler (Abbé Vogler) learned from Vallotti.

Music theoretical work

Vallotti dealt with a wide range of theoretical knowledge of his time and was in close contact with many colleagues such as Calegari, Vogler, Lambert, Tartini.

“If one takes into account Calegari's early studies on the accord version, which were probably undertaken independently of Rameau and which were not published, but had an impact on his friar Vallotti, and if one also includes the joint work with Tartini, the result is a diverse spectrum of northern Italian theory formation in the 1750s to 1770s Years, which brought Zarlino's views in connection with new acoustic knowledge and with whom Vogler came into contact. Vallotti himself had reflected on the relationship between music and mathematics ... "(Sebastian Klotz)

Shortly before his death, Vallotti's main work appeared: Della scienza teorica e pratica della moderna musica (On the scientific theory and practice of modern music). His importance today is primarily as the namesake of the Vallotti tuning , which he did not invent, but was the first to document, and which today represents a widespread mood in the field of historical performance practice .

Vallotti's extensive correspondence has not yet been evaluated.

Compositional creation

Although he was a famous church music composer during his lifetime, his works are rarely performed today. On the occasion of the inauguration of Hedwig's Cathedral in Berlin on November 1, 1773, the Prussian court near Vallotti commissioned a mass and a Te Deum.

Many of his works only exist in manuscript form.

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Further literature

  • Giulio Cattin (Ed.): Francescantonio Vallotti. Nel II centenario dalla morte (1780–1980). Biografia, catalogo tematico delle opere e contributi critici (= Centro Studi Antoniani 3). Messaggero, Padua 1981, ISBN 88-7026-367-3

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personal data
SURNAME Vallotti, Francesco Antonio
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian composer
DATE OF BIRTH June 11, 1697
PLACE OF BIRTH Vercelli
DATE OF DEATH January 10, 1780
Place of death Padua