Francesco Gardi

Francesco Gardi (* around 1760 in Venice ; † around 1810 there) was an Italian composer who primarily composed operas .

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Few reliable facts have come down to us about Gardi's life. As a composer, Gardi wrote numerous operas, especially Opere buffe , many on libretti by Giuseppe Maria Foppa . His first opera was premiered in Modena in 1786 . Otherwise he mainly worked in Venice, where he was director of the women's choir and composer at the Ospedale dei Derelitti from 1787 to 1791 . In 1797 he received the position of Kapellmeister of the Ospedale dei Mendicanti . We know from a note on the title page of the libretto La finta semplice (1798) that he was a member of the Accademia Filarmonica di Bologna.

His one-act farces, which made him popular, were particularly valued. His relationship with Count Alessandro Pèpoli , who was one of the most important figures in the cultural life of Venice in the last years of the Republic, was particularly important . As an actor, playwright, impresario and publisher, Pèpoli had a disused theater in his Palazzo Cavalli in San Vidal / San Marco , which was restored between 1793 and 1795 and in which various dramas with music by Gardi were performed, such as Tancredi , the 1795 was performed there.

His last known work in 1809 was the cantata in honor of Joachim Murat , Napoleon Bonaparte's brother-in-law .

In 2017, two one-act plays by Gardi were performed in the Neuburg Chamber Opera .

Works

• Enea nel Lazio (Opera seria, libretto by Vittorio Amedeo Cigna-Santi , 1786, Modena , Teatro Rangoni )
• Don Giovanni o Il nuovo convitato di pietra (Dramma tragicomico, 1787, Venice , Teatro San Samuele )
• La fata capricciosa (Dramma giocoso, libretto by Giovanni Bertati , 1789, Venice, Teatro San Moisè )
• Gernando e Rosimonda (Dramma eroico, 1789, Treviso , Teatro Astori )
• Teodolinda (Opera seria, libretto by D. Boggio, 1790, Venice, Teatro San Benedetto )
• Apollo esule ossia L'amore alla prova (Fabula, libretto by Alessandro Pèpoli , 1793, Venice, Teatro di Palazzo Cavalli )
• La bella Lauretta (Dramma giocoso, libretto by Giovanni Bertati, 1795, Venice, Teatro San Moisè)
• Tancredi (Tragedia con musica, libretto by Alessandro Pèpoli, after Voltaire , 1795, Venice)
• Amor l'astuzia insegna (Dramma giocoso, libretto by Giovanni Bertati , 1797, Venice, Teatro San Moisè)
• La pianella persa ossia La veglia de contadini (Farsa, libretto by Giuseppe Maria Foppa, 1798, Venice, Teatro San Moisè)
• Il finto stregone (Farsa, libretto by Giuseppe Maria Foppa, 1798, Venice, Teatro San Moisè)
• La principessa filosofa (Farsa, libretto by Giuseppe Foppa, 1799, Venice, Teatro San Moisè)
• La semplice ovvero La virtù premiata (dramma eroico e comico, libretto by Giuseppe Foppa, 1799, Venice, Teatro San Moisè)
• Il contravveleno (Farsa, libretto by Giuseppe Maria Foppa, after Carlo Gozzi , 1799, Venice, Teatro San Benedetto)
• La donna ve la fa (Farsa, libretto by Giuseppe Maria Foppa, 1800, Venice, Teatro San Moisè)
• Il medico a suo dispetto ossia La muta per amore (Farsa, libretto by Giuseppe Maria Foppa, 1800, Venice, Teatro Sant'Angelo ; Neuburg 2017)
• L'incantesimo senza magia (Farsa, libretto by Giuseppe Maria Foppa, 1800, Venice, Teatro San Moisè; Neuburg 2017)
• La bottega del caffè (Farsa, libretto by Giuseppe Maria Foppa, after Carlo Goldoni , 1801, Venice, Teatro San Moisè)
• Diritto e rovescio ovvero Una delle solite trasformazioni nel mondo (Farsa, libretto by Giuseppe Maria Foppa, 1801, Venice, Teatro San Benedetto)
• La capricciosa supposta (Farsa, new version by Amor l'astuzia insegna , 1801, Venice, Teatro San Benedetto)
• Il convitato di pietra (Farsa, libretto by Giuseppe Maria Foppa, 1802, Venice, Teatro San Benedetto)
• Guerra con tutti ovvero Danari e ripieghi (Farsa, libretto by Giuseppe Maria Foppa, 1803, Venice, Teatro San Benedetto)
• La casa da vendere (Farsa, libretto by G. Piazza, 1804, Venice, Teatro Sant'Angelo)
• Un buco nella porta (Farsa, libretto by Giuseppe Maria Foppa, 1804, Venice, Teatro San Benedetto)
• Semper la vince amore (Farsa, libretto by Giulio Domenico Camagna, 1805, Venice, Teatro San Moisè)
• La forza d'amore (Farsa, 1805, Treviso , Teatro Dolfin )
• Nardone e Nannetta (Opera buffa, libretto by Giuseppe Caravita, 1806, Lisbon, Teatro de São Carlos )

literature

• Taddeo Wiel, I teatri musicali veneziani del Settecento, Venezia 1897
• Guido Bustico, Alessandro Pepoli, in Nuovo Archivio veneto, ns, XXV (1913), pp. 199-229
• Bruno Brunelli, I teatri di Padova, Padova 1921, pp. 346-348, 359 f.
• Andrea Della Corte, L'opera comica italiana nel Settecento, II, Bari 1923, p. 214
• GG Bernardi, Un teatro privato di musica a Venezia, in Gazzetta di Venezia, 20 March 1930
• Stefan Kunze , Don Giovanni before Mozart, Munich 1972, ad indicem
• Nicola Mangini, I teatri di Venezia, Milano 1974, p. 181
• Enrico Paganuzzi et alii, La musica a Verona, Verona 1976, pp. 254, 293
• Storia dell'opera, Torino 1977, I, 1, p. 402; III, 2, pp. 130, 172
• Giovanni Macchia, Vita, avventure e morte di don Giovanni, Torino 1978, pp. 76, 86-88, 95-97
• Roberto Zanetti, La musica italiana nel Settecento, Busto Arsizio 1978, II, p. 913; III, p. 1501
• Stefan Kunze , Alcune farse di Foppa musicate da Gardi, in I vicini di Mozart. Atti del Convegno int. Di studi, Venezia ... 1987, a cura di MT Muraro - D. Bryant, Firenze 1989, II, pp. 479-488
• Nino Pirrotta, Don Giovanni in musica, Venezia 1991, p. 125 pp.
• Robert Lamar Weaver / Norma Wright Weaver, A chronology of music in the Florentine theater. 1751-1800, Warren, MI, 1993, p. 603
• Edward Dent , Mozart at the Theater, Milano 1994, p. 187
• François-Joseph Fétis , Biographie universelle des musiciens, III, p. 408
• Carlo Schmidl , Dizionario universale dei musicisti, I, p. 597
• Umberto Manferrari, Dizionario Universale Delle Opere Melodrammatiche, II, p. 25 f.
• The New Grove Dictionary of music and musicians , VII, p. 162
• The New Grove Dictionary of opera, II, p. 350 f.
• Claudio Sartori, I libretti italiani a stampa dalle origini al 1800 (cfr. Indici, I, p. 390)

Web links

• Raoul Meloncelli:  Gardi, Francesco. In: Mario Caravale (ed.): Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani (DBI). Volume 52:  Gambacorta – Gelasio II. Istituto della Enciclopedia Italiana, Rome 1999.

Individual evidence

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