Francesco Morlacchi

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Francesco Morlacchi
Inside of the Morettisches Opera House in Dresden , where Morlacchi worked

Francesco Giuseppe Baldassarre Morlacchi (born June 14, 1784 in Perugia , † October 28, 1841 in Innsbruck ) was an Italian composer and conductor .

Life

Morlacchi was the student of Giovanni Mazetto in Perugia, Luigi Caruso , Niccolò Antonio Zingarelli in the Conservatorio di Santa Maria di Loreto and Stanislao Mattei in Bologna , where a. a. Gioachino Rossini was his classmate. In 1810 he came to Dresden through the mediation of the singer Marietta Marcolini and, as successor to Ferdinando Paër , was court conductor of the Italian Opera in Dresden from 1811 until his death. He was responsible for the three areas of Catholic church music, opera and court chamber and orchestral music. He died in Innsbruck during a trip to Pisa. His death meant the end of the “Italian Opera” department in Dresden. The theater in his hometown Perugia was named after him "Teatro Morlacchi"; the Conservatory in Perugia also bears his name.

Morlacchi made a strong contribution to the development of “romantic” music in Dresden and, because of his musical expression, was also referred to as the “Italian romantic” at the podium of the Dresden court orchestra . He was the initiator of the Dresden Palm Sunday Concerts and (together with Carl Gottlieb Reissiger ) took on the re-performance of Bach's St. Matthew Passion in Dresden.

Works (selection)

Operas
  • Il poeta disperato (1807, Florence, Teatro della Pergola )
  • Il ritratto o sia La forza dell'astrazione (1807, Verona, Teatro Filarmonico )
  • Corradino , Opera seria (1808, Parma, Teatro Imperiale)
  • Enone e Paride (1808, Livorno, Teatro degli Avvalorati)
  • Oreste (1808, Parma, Teatro Imperiale)
  • La principessa per ripiego (1809, Rome, Teatro Valle )
  • Il Simoncino (1809, Rome, Teatro Valle)
  • Rinaldo d'Asti ossia Il tutore deluso (1809, Parma, Teatro Filo-Musico-Drammatico)
  • Le avventure d'una giornata (1809, Milan, Teatro alla Scala )
  • Le Danaidi , Dramma serio in musica; Libretto: Stefano Scatizzi based on Ipermestra by Pietro Metastasio (February 11, 1810, Rome, Teatro di Torre Argentina)
  • Saffo (1810 in Milan)
  • Raoul di Crequy (1811, Dresden, Court Theater)
  • La capricciosa pentita (1816, Dresden, Court Theater)
  • Il barbiere di Siviglia (1816, Dresden, Hoftheater) - re-performance in the Neuburg Chamber Opera in 1992
  • La semplicetta di Pirna (premiere on September 9, 1817, Dresden, Court Theater)
  • Boadicea (1818, Naples, Teatro San Carlo )
  • Gianni di Parigi (1818, Milan, Teatro alla Scala)
  • Donna Aurora ossia Il romanzo all'improvviso (1821, Milan, Teatro alla Scala)
  • Tebaldo ed Isolina (1822, Venice, Teatro La Fenice ) - concert performance at the Festival Rossini in Wildbad 2014
  • La gioventà di Enrico IV., Il renegato (1823, Pillnitz near Dresden)
  • Ilda d'Avenel (1824, Venice, Teatro La Fenice)
  • I saraceni in Sicilia ovvero Eufenio di Messina (1828, Venice, Teatro La Fenice)
  • Colombo (1828, Genoa, Teatro Carlo Felice)
  • Don Desiderio ovvero Il disperato per eccesso di buon cuore (1829, Dresden, Court Theater)
  • Francesca da Rimini (fragment)
  • Laurina alla corte (fragment)
Sacred and secular choral works

estate

Part of the estate of Francesco Morlacchi - approx. 150 catalog numbers with approx. 50 music autographs, numerous copies and prints - is kept in the music department of the Saxon State and University Library Dresden (call number: Mus.4657-…).

literature

  • Heinrich Ferdinand Mannstein : Memories of the electoral and royal court music in Dresden in the 18th and 19th centuries: According to secret papers and communications. Contains : Life pictures of Joh. Mieksch and his students: Alphonso Zesi, Bergmann , Schröder-Devrient , Agnes Schebest , Naumann, Carl Maria v. Weber , Morlacchi, Benelli etc. Heinrich Mattes, Leipzig 1863 MDZ Reader
  • Biancamaria Brumana, Galliano Ciliberti (ed.): Francesco Morlacchi e la musica del suo tempo (1784–1841) . Atti del Convegno internazionale di studi, Perugia, 26-28 October 1984. Olschki, Florence 1986, ISBN 88-222-3433-2 .
  • Manuela Jahrmärker: The church music of the Italians Ferdinando Paer and Francesco Morlacchi for the Catholic Court Church: Tradition and Restoration , in: The Dresden church music in the 19th and 20th centuries , ed. by Matthias Herrmann, Laaber 1998, pp. 61–80 ( Musik in Dresden 3), ISBN 3-89007-331-X
  • Ortrun Landmann : Comments on the Morlacchi sources of the Saxon State Library in Dresden . [Perugia 1984]. In: F. Morlacchi e la musica del suo tempo . Firenze 1986
  • Michael Märker:  Morlacchi, Francesco. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 18, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1997, ISBN 3-428-00199-0 , p. 152 f. ( Digitized version ).
  • Karl Schadelbauer: On the exhumation of Cav. Francesco Morlacchis ; in: Official Journal of the State Capital Innsbruck , December 1951, page 5 f., digitized in the magazine archive of www.Innsbruck inform.at.

Web links

Commons : Francesco Morlacchi  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Le Danaidi (Francesco Morlacchi) in the Corago information system of the University of Bologna , accessed on January 19, 2015.
  2. ↑ Alfonso Zesi (May 17, 1799 in Milan - 1861 in Milan). Bass singer a. a. in Dresden.
  3. ^ ISSUU - Official Gazette Innsbruck informed by Innsbruck, December 1951 edition
personal data
SURNAME Morlacchi, Francesco
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Morlacchi, Francesco Giuseppe Baldassarre (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian composer and conductor
DATE OF BIRTH June 14, 1784
PLACE OF BIRTH Perugia
DATE OF DEATH October 28, 1841
Place of death innsbruck