Francesco Corradini (composer)
Francesco Cor (r) adini ( Francisco Corradigni ; * around 1700 in Venice ; † October 14, 1769 in Madrid ) was an Italian composer.
Life
Francesco Corradini was first mentioned in Naples in 1721, in connection with the performance of his oratorio Il glorioso S. Giuseppe sposo della beata vergine . He was mainly known as a composer of operas and zarzuelas . In 1728 he went to Spain and became vice conductor of the Prince of Campofiorito in Valencia . From 1731 he worked as an opera composer for various houses in Madrid. After the coronation of Ferdinand VI. In 1747 he was appointed orchestra director of the Teatro del Buen Retiro ; he shared the position with Francesco Corselli and Giovanni Battista Mele .
In Madrid, Corradini, together with the poet José de Cañizares (1676–1750), coined a genre of opera in which Spanish dramaturgy and Italian music merged.
Works
- Lo 'ngiegno de le femmene , commedia in musica, WP 1724
- L'aracolo de Dejana (Libretto: Francesco Antonio Tullio ), commedia boscareccia, WP 1725
- Il premio dell'innocenza, ovvero Le perdite del'inganno (Libretto: Carlo de Palma ), dramma per musica, WP 1725
- Folla Real, que en celebridad de los años de la Magestad de la Reina Isabela [... hace] cantar el Excelentissimo St. Principe de Compoflorido [Bacocco e Serpilla] , intermezzi, WP 1728
- El emperador Oton en un real sitio cerca de Roma [Ottone in Villa] (Libretto: Domenico Lalli ), melodrama / dramma per musica, WP 1728
- Con amor no ay libertad (Libretto: José de Cañizares), melodrama armónico al estilo de Italia, WP 1731
- Milagro es hallar verdad (Libretto: José de Cañizares), zarzuela WP 1732
- Trajano en Dacia, y cumplir con amor, y honor (Libretto: José de Cañizares), drama para representarse en musica, WP 1735
- Vencer y ser vencido, Anteros y Cupido (Libretto: Joaquín de Anaya Aragónes ), zarzuela, WP 1735
- Dar el ser hijo al padre (after Pietro Metastasios Artaserse ), melodrama armónico, WP 1736
- El ser noble es obrar bien (Libretto: José de Cañizares), drama para música, WP 1736
- Serenata a los Reales desposorios de [...] Don Carlos de Borbón y Doña María Amalia de Saxonia, Monarcas de ambas Sicilias , drama armónico, WP 1738
- La Clizie [Clicie y el Sol] (Libretto: José de Cañizares), drama armónico, WP 1739
- La Elisa, Burlas y veras de amor (Libretto: José de Cañizares), drama armónico, WP 1739
- El Thequeli [La amazona de Mongat y aventuras de Tequeli] (Libretto: Narciso Agustín Solano y Lobo ), ópera métrica, WP 1744 Madrid
- La Briseida (Libretto: José de Cañizares), serenata armónica, WP 1745
- La más heroica amistad y el amor más verdadero (Libretto: Manuel Guerrero based on Metastasios L'olimpiade ), drama músico, WP 1745
- La clemenza di Tito (Libretto: Pietro Metastasio), dramma per musica, WP 1747 (1st act by Francesco Corselli , 3rd act by Giovanni Battista Mele )
- Il Polifemo (Libretto: Paolo Antonio Rolli ), dramma per musica, WP (1st act by Corselli, 3rd act by Mele)
swell
- Curriculum vitae on the Haendel.it website
- List of the stage works by Francesco Corradini (composer) based on the MGG at Operone
- Search for operas by Francesco Corradini (composer) (search term in the Autore field : “Corradini Francesco”) in the Corago information system of the University of Bologna
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Corradini, Francesco |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Corradigni, Francisco |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Italian composer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | around 1700 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Venice |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 14, 1769 |
| Place of death | Madrid |