Francesco Manfredini

Francesco Onofrio (Giovanni Romulo) Manfredini (also cited as Francesco Maria Manfredini; born  June 22, 1684 in Pistoia near Florence ; †  October 6, 1762 ibid) was an Italian violinist and composer of the late Baroque .

Life

Francesco Manfredini was the son of Domenico, a trombone player in the cathedral of Pistoia , and thus came from a family of musicians. He probably received his first music lessons from the conductor in his hometown Sebastiano Cherici (1647–1704). At a very young age he moved to Bologna to enter the famous music school of the Cathedral of San Petronio as a choirboy and student . His teachers were Giuseppe Torelli (violin), Giacomo Antonio Perti (counterpoint and composition) and Girolamo Nicolò Laurenti (1678–1751).

After this time he had a position as violinist at the Church of Santo Spirito in Ferrara , probably due to the temporary dissolution of the cappella musicale of San Petronio in 1696. After the reorganization of the San Petronio Chapel in 1703, Manfredini received a position as Violinist ( suonatore ) and became a member of the prestigious Accademia Filarmonica .

On the occasion of a stay in Venice in 1711 he made the acquaintance of Prince Antonio I Grimaldi of Monaco , in whose service he was Kapellmeister for sixteen years. In 1718 he dedicated his Concerti op.3 to the prince .

In 1727 Manfredini moved back to his native Pistoia, where he was maestro di cappella ( Kapellmeister ) at the Cathedral of San Filippo until his death .

Manfredini was married to Rosa degli Antonii and the couple had eleven children, five of whom were born in Monaco. Three of his sons also became musicians: the violinist Antonio Manfredini, the castrato and composer Giuseppe Manfredini (who possibly worked in London from 1750) and the composer Vincenzo Manfredini (* 1737; † 1799 in Saint Petersburg).

Works

As Kapellmeister in Pistoia, Manfredini composed numerous vocal works for ecclesiastical use, which were available as manuscripts. After disputes with the clergy, Manfredini was instructed to remove his works from the music cabinet. So only the printed works remained from him. In 1917 it was mentioned that the music for the oratorios had been preserved, but it has not yet been found.

Instrumental music

Printed works

• Op. 1: 12 Concertini per Camera a violini e cello o Tiorba (Bologna, 1704)
• Trio sonata in Corona di dodici fiori armonici (Bologna, 1706)
• Op. 2: 12 Symphony da Chiesa à due Violini, col Basso per l ' Organo & una Viola a Beneplacito (Bologna, 1709; Amsterdam, 1711)
• Op. 3: 12 Concerti a due Violini, e Basso continuo obbligati, e due altri Violini, Viola, e Basso di Rinforzo ad Arbitrio (Bologna, 1718)
  • No. 12: Pastorale per il santissimo natale
• 6 Sonatas for two Violins and Violoncello with a through Bass for the Harpsichord (London, 1764)

Other works

• Concerto con una o due Trombe (1711), I-Ex.
• Concerto a violino solo e orchestra
• Concerto, violino solo, 2 violini, viola, violoncello , hpd, GB-Mp.
• Concerto a 4 con Oboe e Violini
• several concertos for different line-ups

Vocal music

Oratorios (music lost)

• San Filippo Neri trionfante nelle grotte di San Sebastiano di Roma , libretto: Giambattista Neri (Bologna, 1719 and Pistoia, 1725)
• Tomaso Moro , GB Neri (Bologna, ca.1720 and Pistoia, 1727)
• La profezia d'Eliseo nell'assedio di Samaria , GB Neri (Pistoia, 1725)
• Salomone, assicurato nel soglio , libretto: D. Canavese (Pistoia, 1725)
• Discacciamento d'Adamo e d'Eva dal Paradiso terrestre (Pistoia, 1726)
• Il sacrificio di Gefte , GB Neri (Pistoia, 1728)
• Il core umano combattuto da due amori, divino e profano , GB Neri (Pistoia, 1729)
• Golia ucciso da Davidde (Pistoia, 1734)

Cantatas

• sacred cantata ( cantata sacra ) Il doppio sacrifikio del Calvario (Pistoia, 1725)
• Ombrone festeggiante (Pistoia, 1728)

Others

• Stabat Mater for 4 voices and violins
• Mass (1754)
• Te Deum (1754)

literature

• G. Rospigliosi: Note of the maestri e artisti di musica pistoiesi . Pistoia, 1878.
• U. Pineschi: cisazioni biografiche su Francesco Manfredini . In: Bolletino storico pistoiese, 3rd ser., 3 (1968), 5-6.
• Georges Favre: Un prince mélomane au XVIIIe siècle: la vie musicale à la cour d'Antoine Ier, Prince de Monaco (1661–1731) . evue de Musicologie , 57 (1971), pp. 134-49.
• Jean Grundy Fanelli: The Manfredini Family of Musicians of Pistoia, 1684-1803 . In: Studi musicali 26 (1997), pp. 187-232.
• Jean Grundy Fanelli: A Chronology of Operas, Oratorios, Operettas, Cantatas and Miscellaneous Stage Works with Music performed in Pistoia 1606–1943 . Bologna, 1998.
• L. Fagni: Vicende della vita pistoiese di Francesco Manfredini, 1724–1762 . Dissertation at the University of Florence, 1967.
• A. Schoebelen: The Concerted Mass at San Petronio in Bologna, approx. 1660-1730: a Documentary and Analytical Study . Dissertation at the University of Illinois, 1967.
• F. Gierling: Francesco Manfredini . In: The music in past and present , 8th ed. By Friedrich Blume, Ludwig Finscher. Kassel, 1960, col. 1579-1580.
• Michael Talbot : Francesco Manfredini . In: The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians , Volume 11. Macmillan, London, 1980, p. 615.

Web links

• Sheet music and audio files by Francesco Manfredini in the International Music Score Library Project