Francesco Maria Cattaneo

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Francesco Maria Cattaneo , also: Cadanio , Cataneo , Catango (* around 1697 in Lodi [?]; † December 20, 1758 in Dresden ) was an Italian violinist and composer as well as concertmaster of the Dresden court orchestra .

Life

Francesco Maria Cattaneo was born in Lodi, northern Italy, around 1697 as the son of Nicolò Maria Cattaneo. The soprano Maria Santina Cattaneo (also: Cattanea , * around 1710) is the younger sister of Francesco Cattaneo.

Chamber musician in the Munich court orchestra

In 1717/18 Cattaneo worked in the court chapel of the Bavarian Elector Maximilian II Emanuel in Munich.

Violinist at the Saxon-Polish court

Memorial stele Fr. M. Cattaneo on the Old Catholic Cemetery in Dresden, design: Sebastian Biesold

Cattaneo received his first employment at the Saxon-Polish court in 1721 in the private chapel of Count Jacob Heinrich von Flemming . In the wake of Flemming, Cattaneo stayed several times in the Polish residence in Warsaw, where he was committed to the Dresden court orchestra on June 8, 1726 by the Elector of Saxony, Friedrich August. In fact, however, Francesco Maria Cattaneo was in the service of the electoral prince until 1733, from whom he was significantly promoted.

When the now elector Friedrich August II. (As King of Poland August III. ) Took over the government in 1733, Cattaneo appeared among the members of the Dresden court orchestra with the title of chamber violinist. After the death of the long-time concert master of the court orchestra, Johann Georg Pisendel , in 1755 this position was transferred to Cattaneo.

Francesco Maria Cattaneo died on December 20, 1758 and was buried the following day in the Old Catholic Cemetery in Dresden . The grave is no longer preserved; Since September 2011 a memorial stele has been commemorating the musician in the cemetery.

A relationship with other namesake also working in Dresden could not be proven. They include B. the cloakroom inspector Antonio Maria Cattaneo and his daughter Faustina Guardasoni, wife of the singer and theater impresario Domenico Guardasoni .

Appreciation

Francesco Maria Cattaneo stayed in Venice several times . Together with his sister Maria Santina, who received her vocal training there at the Ospedale della Pietà, among others , he exemplifies the close relationships between the Saxon residence and the lagoon city and the associated cultural transfer. It is likely that Cattaneo was in contact with the Venetian composer and violin virtuoso Antonio Vivaldi . It has not been proven whether he also received lessons from the prete rosso , as is sometimes assumed. Cattaneo's musical historical achievement can be seen less in his violin compositions. Rather, its importance lies in his work as an outstanding virtuoso in the widely acclaimed Dresden court orchestra. The contemporary Kittel wrote in his poem of praise for the court orchestra, published in 1740:

And you CATTANEO, sent to us by
French-speaking countries , guide your hand on the violin so skillfully
that none of your country people is able to
deny you the preference by speed.

While some members of the ensemble with the outbreak of the Seven Years War (1756–1763) August III. followed to Warsaw, Cattaneo stayed in Dresden. The current perception of his position as concert master in these years affected by the effects of the war is far behind that of his predecessor Pisendel. The often quoted assumption, based on a letter from Pisendel to Georg Philipp Telemann , that Pisendel was hostile towards Cattaneo, remains to be questioned critically and is probably not to be accepted for the entire period of the joint musical activity in Dresden.

Works (selection)

Francesco Maria Cattaneo composed exclusively for violin. His oeuvre includes concerts, sonatas and trios.

  • Sonata in B flat major for violin and basso continuo , first critical edition ed. by Guido Erdmann, Königsbrunn / Magdeburg 2007 (= Musica obligata 602).
  • Sonata in F major for violin and basso continuo , first critical edition ed. by Guido Erdmann, Königsbrunn / Magdeburg 2007 (= Musica obligata 603).
  • Sonata in C major for violin and basso continuo , first critical edition ed. by Guido Erdmann, Königsbrunn / Magdeburg 2007 (= Musica obligata 604).
  • Sonata in D major for violin and basso continuo , first critical edition ed. by Guido Erdmann, Königsbrunn / Magdeburg 2007 (= Musica obligata 605).
  • Sonata per violino e basso continuo , with an introduction by Serena Agostini, ed. by Antonio Frigé, Milan 2015 (= Edizioni Pian & Forte 43).
  • Concerto per Violino principale, Fagotto, Archi e Basso continuo , with an introduction by Serena Agostini, ed. by Antonio Frigé, Milan 2015 (= Edizioni Pian & Forte 87).
  • Sonaty Francesca Marii Cattaneo (1697–1758) oraz Finali i Duetto z rękopisu tarnowskiego (PL-TA 23) , wstęp i opracowanie Irena Bieńkowska, Warszawa 2018 / Sonatas of Francesco Maria Cattaneo (1697–1758) and Finali and Duettous from the Tarnów (PL-TA 23) , edited with introduction by Irena Bieńkowska, Warsaw 2018 (= Musica Revelata; Musicalia 1).

The authorship of the A major violin concerto (SLUB Dresden: Mus. 2-O-7a-c), which was brought into public discussion in 2012, is not certain.

Discography

  • Francesco Maria Cattaneo. Violin Concertos (Dresden, 1730/40) , Anton Steck (violin, conductor), Wouter Verschuren (bassoon), L'arpa festante (Christoph Hesse), ACCENT 2020; ACC 24364.

literature

  • Irena Bieńkowska: Notatki o muzykach Jakuba Henryka Flemminga , in: Barok. Historia, Literatura, Sztuka 3 (1996), H. 2, pp. 155-166.
  • Alina Żórawska-Witkowska: Muzyka na dworze Augusta II w Warszawie , Zamek Krolewski: Warszawa 1997; ISBN 83-7022-078-9 .
  • Kai Köpp: Johann Georg Pisendel (1687–1755) and the beginnings of modern orchestral conducting , Schneider: Tutzing 2005; ISBN 3-7952-1140-9 .
  • Sebastian Biesold: Experiment musician protection. The siblings Maria Santina and Francesco Maria Cattaneo at the Saxon-Polish court in the 18th century , in: Barbara Marx / Andreas Henning (eds.), Venice - Dresden. Encounter between two cultural cities , Seemann Henschel: Leipzig 2010, pp. 154–175; ISBN 978-3-86502-211-0 .
  • Rashid-S. Pegah: '… in questa mia sì giusta causa…' or Dresden ducats for a teacher at the Ospedale della Pietà. A letter from Barbara , in: Studi Vivaldiani 10 (2010), pp. 75–85.
  • Sebastian Biesold: Some remarks on the Concerti Francesco Maria Cattaneos , in: Wolfgang Mende (ed.), Partita. Twenty-seven movements on the history of music in Dresden. Festschrift for Hans-Günter Ottenberg for his 65th birthday , Thelem: Dresden 2012, pp. 351–369; ISBN 978-3-942411-55-4 .
  • Javier Lupiáñez, Fabrizio Ammetto: Una nuova cadenza vivaldiana in un concerto per violino anonimo , in: Studi Vivaldiani 17 (2017) , pp. 79-102 (including an English summary).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Johann Gottlob Kittel, poem of praise to the Saxon court orchestra. Facsimile of the print from 1740 , ed. and with an afterword by Gerhard Poppe, ortus: Beeskow 2008, p. 7; ISBN 978-3-937788-16-6 .
  2. ^ Georg Philipp Telemann, Correspondence. All available letters from and to Telemann , ed. by Hans Große / Hans Rudolf Jung, German publishing house for music: Leipzig 1972, p. 348.
  3. ^ Karl Wilhelm Geck: How much Vivaldi? Music handwriting offers new topics for research to discuss. In: SLUB blog. July 4, 2012, accessed November 9, 2018 .
  4. ↑ Tvivel om äkta Vivaldikonsert ( Memento from May 4, 2013 in the web archive archive.today ), Sveriges Radio , July 26, 2012 (Swedish).
  5. ↑ Francisco Javier Ruiz Lupiañez: New Discoveries of Vivaldi in Dresden. February 12, 2015, accessed on November 9, 2018 (English, student work).
personal data
SURNAME Cattaneo, Francesco Maria
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian violinist and composer as well as concertmaster of the Dresden court orchestra
DATE OF BIRTH around 1697
PLACE OF BIRTH Lodi
DATE OF DEATH December 20, 1758
Place of death Dresden