Francesco Mancini (composer)

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Francesco Mancini (born January 16, 1672 in Naples , † September 22, 1737 ibid) was an Italian conductor and composer of the Neapolitan school .

Life

Francesco Mancini, a son of the organist Nicoo Mancini, was an orphan in 1681 and grew up with his grandfather. In 1688 he sent him to the Conservatorio della Pietà dei Turchini to study the organ . There, among others, Francesco Provenzale and Gennaro Ursino were his teachers. When he was accepted, he was obliged to teach at the Conservatorio for six years after completing his studies . In 1704 he became organist and in 1707 primo maestro of the royal chapel, but Alessandro Scarlatti was able to regain the latter position after a year. From 1720 Mancini became primo maestro at the Conservatorio Santa Maria di Loreto .

Although rather unknown today, he was as famous as Alessandro Scarlatti at the time and supplied the insatiable Neapolitan market and other European countries with 30 stage works, numerous oratorios and sacred vocal music (cantatas). Most famous are his flute sonatas , which today are widely regarded as important for the late baroque. Mancini tried several times to oust Scarlatti from the post of first conductor of the Neapolitan court, but had to wait until after his death (1725) for the longed-for post. When Mancini fell ill in 1735, Domenico Sarro took over the duties of court conductor and, after Mancini's death in 1737, also his title.

Mancini remained connected to his native Naples throughout his life, and his music is an expression of down-to-earth Neapolitan tradition. His works are imbued with those sudden harmonious changes that made Neapolitan music of the early eighteenth century so dramatic.

Works (selection)

Mancini's now well-known and newly published works from his extensive oeuvre include almost exclusively a few cantatas and the instrumental sonatas with flute.

Operas

  • Il nodo sciolto e ligato dall'affetto, o vero L'obligo el disobligo vinti d'amore (dramma boscareccio, 1696, Rome)
  • Arivisto (Dramma per Musica, libretto by Pietro d'Averara, 1702, Naples)
  • Silla (Melodramma, libretto by A. Rossini, 1703, Naples)
  • La costanza nell'honore (Dramma per Musica, libretto by Francesco Passarini, 1704, Naples)
  • Gli amanti generosi (Dramma per Musica, libretto by Giovanni Pietro Candi, 1705, Naples)
  • La serva favorita (Melodramma, libretto by Giovanni Cosimo Villifranchi . 1705, Naples)
  • Alessandro il grande in Sidone (Dramma per Musica, libretto by Aurelio Aureli , 1706, Naples)
  • Turno Aricino (Dramma per Musica, libretto by Silvio Stampiglia e Filippo Falconi, 1708, Naples)
  • Artaserse (Dramma per Musica, libretto by G. Papis, 1708, Naples)
  • L'Engelberta, o sia La forza dell'innocenza (third act and part of the second act) (Dramma per Musica, libretto by Apostolo Zeno e Pietro Pariati , 1709, Naples; in collaboration with Antonio Orefice )
  • L'Idaspe fedele (Opera, libretto by Giovanni Pietro Candi, 1710, London)
  • Mario fuggitivo (Dramma per Musica, libretto by Silvio Stampiglia , 1710, Naples)
  • Abdolomino (10 arias) (Dramma per Musica, libretto by Silvio Stampiglia , 1711, Naples; arrangement of Abdolomino by Giovanni Bononcini )
  • La Semele (Favola per Musica, libretto by Nicolò Giuvo, 1711)
  • Selim re d'Ormuz (Dramma per Musica, libretto by Giovanni Domenico Pioli, 1712, Naples)
  • Agrippina (16 arias) (Dramma per Musica, libretto by Vincenzo Grimani, 1713, Naples; arrangement of Agrippina by Georg Friedrich Händel )
  • Artaserse re d Persia (14 arias) (Dramma per Musica, libretto by Francesco Silvani , 1713, Naples; adaptation of Il tradimento traditor di se stesso by Antonio Lotti )
  • Il gran Mogol (Dramma per Musica, libretto by Domenico Lalli and Angiolino Birini, 1713, Naples)
  • Il Vincislao (Dramma per Musica, libretto by Apostolo Zeno , 1714, Naples)
  • Alessandro Severo (Dramma per Musica, libretto by Apostolo Zeno , 1718, Rome)
  • La fortezza in cimento (Melodramma, libretto by Francesco Silvani , 1721, Naples)
  • Il Trajano (Dramma per Musica, libretto by Giovanni Biavi, 1723, Naples)
  • Colombina e Pernicone (Intermezzo for the previous opera)
  • L'Oronta (Dramma per Musica, libretto by Claudio Nicola Stampa, 1728, Naples)
  • Il Cavalier Bardone e Mergellina (Intermezzo for the previous opera, libretto by A. Belmuro)
  • Il ritorno del figlio con l'abito più approvato (various arias) (Pasticcio, 1730, Prague)
  • Alessandro nell'Indie (Dramma per Musica, libretto by Pietro Metastasio , 1732, Naples)
  • La Levantina (Eurilla e Don Corbolone) (Intermezzo for the previous opera, 1732, Naples)
  • Don Aspremo (13 arias) (Commedia, libretto by Domenico Carcajus, 1733, Naples)
  • Demofoonte (6 arias) (Dramma per Musica, libretto by Pietro Metastasio , 1735, Naples; in collaboration with Domenico Sarro and Leonardo Leo )

Other stage works

  • Cara mura adorate (Serenata, 1702)
  • Il giorno eterno (Serenata, libretto Nicolò Giuvo, 1708, Naples)
  • Amore nel cuore di Partenope (Serenata, libretto G. Papis, 1708, Naples)
  • Dafne in alloro (Cantata a 3, 1716, Naples)
  • Cori per il Maurizio (1729, Naples)
  • Mentre in dolce riposo (Serenata)
  • Nell'ore più quiete (Serenata)
  • Another 200 cantatas

Musica vocale sacra

Oratorios

  • Dolorose Canzoni (1698, Naples)
  • L'amor divino trionfante nella morte di Cristo (1700, Rome)
  • La notte gloriosa (libretto di GA Minotti, 1701, Naples)
  • La nave trionfante sotto gli auspici di Maria Vergine (libretto di F. Falconi, 1701, Palermo)
  • L'Arca del Testamento in Gerico (libretto di Andrea Perrucci , 1704, Naples)
  • Gli sforzi della Splendidezza e della Pietà (1707, Palermo)
  • Il genere umano in catene (1708, Siena)
  • Il Giuseppe venduto (1711, Palermo)
  • Il sepolcro di Cristo Signor Nostro (1713, Naples)
  • Il sepolcro di Cristo fabbricato dagli Angeli (1716, Florence)
  • La caduta di Gerico (1721, Lucca)
  • Il zelo animato, ovvero Il gran profeta Elia (Libretto by Andrea Perrucci 1733, Naples) (Italian)

Sacred works

  • Various church cantatas, masses, motets, Magnificat, Vespers and psalm settings

Instrumental works

  • 2 toccate for harpsichord (1716)
  • 12 Solos for a flute with a thorough bass for the harpsichord or bass violin (1724, London)
  • 10 sonata a 4, per flauto, 2 violini, violoncello e basso continuo
  • 2 sonata a 5, per flauto, 2 violini, viola, violoncello e basso continuo

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Report ( Memento of June 13, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) of the 13th annual meeting of the Società italiana di musicologia - SIdM
  2. ^ RISM-OPAC. Retrieved October 2, 2016 .
personal data
SURNAME Mancini, Francesco
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian conductor and composer
DATE OF BIRTH January 16, 1672
PLACE OF BIRTH Naples
DATE OF DEATH September 22, 1737
Place of death Naples