Francesco Gasparini
Francesco Gasparini (* 19th March 1661 in Camaiore in Lucca , Tuscany , † 22. March 1727 in Rome ) was an Italian composer of the Baroque .
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Gasparini was born the second of five children to Nicolao and Elisabetta Belfiore. Little is known about his life in Camaiore and his early musical training. Presumably he studied in Rome under Bernardo Pasquini and Arcangelo Corelli . From 1682, however, he was organist in the Madonna dei Monti church in Rome. In 1684 he was accepted as a singer by the Accademia Filarmonica di Bologna , and in the following year as a composer.
Gasparini made his operatic debut in 1686 with Olimpia vendicata in Livorno . His work comprises a total of almost 60 operas. His most successful piece was Ambleto (also: Amleto ), a variation on the Hamlet theme , but not based on Shakespeare .
In 1701 Gasparini went to Venice as Kapellmeister of the Ospedale della Pietà . Until 1713 he performed 24 works there, mainly in the Teatro San Cassiano . After a brief interlude in Città di Castello , he returned to Rome in 1716 and worked there as a composer and conductor on behalf of the Marchese Francesco Maria Ruspoli. From 1718 to 1724 Gasparini devoted himself entirely to composing, his operas were performed in all the important opera houses in Italy from Rome to Turin.
He took his last position in 1725 as Kapellmeister of San Giovanni in Laterano , which he held until his death in 1727.
In addition to his work as a composer, Gasparini always worked as a teacher, his most famous students were Domenico Scarlatti and Benedetto Marcello . In 1708 he wrote a thorough bass school in Venice , which was reprinted until 1839.
Works
Vocal music
Operas
- Olimpia vendicata (Livorno, 1686)
- Il Roderico (Livorno, 1686)
- Il Bellerofonte (Roma, 1690)
- Amor vince lo sdegno overo L'Olimpia placata , in collaboration with others (Rome, Teatro Capranica, 1692)
- L'Etna festivo , pasticcio with arias by about twenty authors (Milan, 1696)
- Totila in Roma ( Matteo Noris , Palermo, 1696)
- Gerone tiranno di Siracusa ( Aurelio Aureli , Genoa, 1700)
- Tiberio imperatore d'Oriente (Naples, 1702)
- Gli imenei stabiliti dal caso ( Francesco Silvani , Venice, 1703)
- Il miglior d'ogni amore per il peggiore d'ogni odio (Francesco Silvani, Venice, 1703)
- Il più fedel fra i vassalli (Francesco Silvani, Casale, 1703)
- La fede tradita e vendicata (Francesco Silvani, Venice, 1704)
- La maschera levata al vizio (Francesco Silvani, Venice, 1704)
- L'Alarico o L'ingratitudine castigata , in collaboration with others (Palermo, 1705)
- Ambleto ( Apostolo Zeno and Pietro Pariati, Venice, 1705)
- Antioco (Venice, 1705)
- La Fredegonda (Francesco Silvani, Venice, 1705)
- Il principato custodito dalla frode (Francesco Silvani, Venice, 1705)
- Statira (Apostolo Zeno and Pietro Pariati, Venice, 1705)
- L'amor generoso (Apostolo Zeno, Venice, 1707)
- Anfitrione (Pietro Pariati, Venice, 1707)
- Flavio Anicio Olibrio (Apostolo Zeno and Pietro Pariati, Venice, 1707)
- Taican re della Cina (U. Rizzi, Venice, 1707)
- Engelberta (Apostolo Zeno, Venice, 1708)
- Le regine di Macedonia , with G. Vignola (Naples, 1708)
- L'Alciade overo L'eroico amore , first act (Bergamo, 1709)
- L'Alciade overo La violenza d'amore , first act (Bergamo, 1709)
- La ninfa Apollo , with A. Lotti (F. de Lemene, Venice, 1709)
- La principessa fedele (A. Piovene, Venice, 1709)
- Sesostri re di Egitto (A. Pariati, Venice, 1709)
- Le vicende d'amor e di fortuna (Venice, 1709)
- L'amor tirannico ( Domenico Lalli , Venice, 1710)
- Tamerlano (A. Piovene, Venice, 1710)
- Costantino (Pietro Pariati, Venice, 1711)
- Merope (Apostolo Zeno, Venice, 1711)
- Eraclio , second act (PA Bernardoni, Rome, 1712)
- L'amore politico e generoso della regina Ermengarda , with GM Capella (Parma, 1713)
- Il comando non inteso ed ubbidito (G. Morone and GB Zino, Genoa 1713)
- Ernelinda , Doubtful (London, 1713)
- La verità nell'inganno (Francesco Silvani, Venice, 1713)
- L'amante impazzito , in collaboration with others (Venice, 1714)
- Eumene (= L'alfier fanfarone , Reggio Emilia, 1714)
- Lucio Papirio ( Antonio Salvi , Rome, Teatro Capranica, 1714)
- Amor vince l'odio overo Timocrate (MT Comelio, Florence, 1715)
- Nerone fatto Cesare , pasticcio with arias by Antonio Vivaldi , Giacomo Antonio Perti and others (Matteo Noris, Venice, 1715)
- Il tartaro nella Cina (Antonio Salvi, Reggio Emilia, 1715)
- Ciro (Matteo Noris, Rome, Teatro Capranica, Carnival 1716)
- Teodosio ed Eudossia , with Antonio Caldara and Johann Joseph Fux (V. Grimani, Wolfenbüttel, 1716)
- Il Vincislao , with arias by Francesco Mancini (Rome, Teatro Capranica, Carnival 1716)
- Il gran Cid (N. Serino, Naples, 1717)
- Pirro (Rome, Teatro Capranica, Carnival 1717)
- Il trace in catena in collaboration with two of his students (Rome, Teatro Capranica, Carnevale 1717)
- Democrito (Turin, 1718)
- Astianatte (Rome, 1719)
- Il Bajazet (Reggio Emilia, 1719)
- Lucio Vero (Rome, 1719)
- Amore e maestà (Rome, 1720)
- Il Farmondo (Rome, 1720)
- Nino , second act (I. Zanelli, Reggio Emilia, 1720)
- La pace fra Seleuco e Tolomeo (Milan, 1720)
- La Zoe ovvero Il comando non inteso ed ubbidito (Rome, 1721)
- Bajazette (Venice, 1723)
- Dorinda ( Benedetto Marcello ?, Rome, 1723)
- Gli equivoci d'amore e d'innocenza (Antonio Salvi, Venice, 1723)
- La Silvia (Foligno, 1723)
- La Tigrena (Rome, 1724)
- La fede in cimento , with Santo Lapis (Apostolo Zeno, Venice, 1730)
Oratorios
- Iudith de Olopherne triumphans ( Benedetto Pamphili , Rome 1689)
- Atalia (Rome, 1692)
- Giacobbe in Egitto (Florence, 1695)
- Il viceré d'Egitto (Florence, 1695)
- La Costanza nell'Amor divino o La S. Rosalia , Dramma sacro, third act (Florence, 1696)
- I Trionfi della Carità (Naples, 1698)
- L'Amante in Cielo , dramma sacro (Rome, 1699)
- Triumphus Misericordiae (B. Sandrinelli, Venice, 1701)
- Prima Culpa per Redemptionem deleta (Venice, 1702)
- Jubilum Prophetarum from Incarnatione divini Verbi (B. Sandrinelli, Venice, 1703)
- Mosé liberato dal Nilo (Vienna, 1703)
- Aeterna Sapientia incarnata (Venice, 1704)
- Pudor Virginis vindicatus (Venice, 1705)
- Dominica Nativitatis Prelude (Venice, 1708)
- L'Onestà combattuta di Sara (= Sara in Egitto ) with music by Carlo Francesco Cesarini , Francesco Mancini , Alessandro Scarlatti , Domenico Zipoli , Francesco Maria Veracini , Antonio Caldara etc. (Florence, 1708)
- Maria Magdalena videns Christum resuscitatum (Venice, 1711)
- Dal Trionfo le perdite o Jefte che sagrifica la sua Figlia , pasticcio with music by 10 authors (Florence, 1716)
- I due Sposi felici Sara e Tobia (Florence, 1720)
- Il Figlio prodigo (I. Capelletti, Città di Castello 1722)
- La Penitenza gloriosa nella Conversione di S. Maria Egiziaca (Ancona, 1722)
- La Nascita di Cristo (Lucca, 1724)
- Le Nozze di Tobia (Lucca, 1724)
- La Santissima Annunziata , Dramma sacro (Rome, 1725)
Intermezzi
- Parpagnacco ( Pietro Pariati , Venice, 1708)
- Zamberlucco (Venice, 1709)
- Barilotto e Slapina (Antonio Salvi, Rome, Carnival 1714)
- In Derisione della Setta maomettana (G. Gigli, Rome, 1717)
- Intermedi , with Giovanni Battista Bononcini (Dresden, 1718)
- L'Avaro (Venice, 1720)
- Zamberlucco e Palandrana (Ferrara, 1721)
- Lisetta e Astrobolo (Venice, 1725)
- L'Astrologo (Venice, 1731).
Works with opus number
- Op. 1: 12 Cantate da Camera a Voce sola for soprano and B. c. (Rome, 1695)
Other works
- two works entitled Prelude by Sign.r Gasperini in Select Preludes or Volentarys for the Violin by the most eminent Masters in Europe (London, 1705)
- several sonata and versetti for organ
literature
Alberto Iesuè: Gasparini, Francesco. In: Mario Caravale (ed.): Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani (DBI). Volume 52: Gambacorta – Gelasio II. Istituto della Enciclopedia Italiana, Rome 1999.
Web links
- Works by and about Francesco Gasparini in the catalog of the German National Library
- Works by and about Francesco Gasparini in the German Digital Library
- Sheet music and audio files by Francesco Gasparini in the International Music Score Library Project
- List of the stage works by Francesco Gasparini based on the MGG at Operone
- Search for operas by Francesco Gasparini (search term in the Autore field : “Gasparini Francesco”) in the Corago information system of the University of Bologna
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Gasparini, Francesco |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Italian baroque composer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 19, 1661 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Camaiore near Lucca |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 22, 1727 |
| Place of death | Rome |