Francesco Pollini (composer, 1762)

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Francesco Pollini , also Franz de Paula Pollini (born March 26, 1762 in Laibach , † September 17, 1846 in Milan ) was an Italian composer and pianist.

family

The Pollini family had moved to Carniola 100 years before Francesco Pollini was born . Francesco's father worked as a doctor and pharmacist in Ljubljana. He received a hereditary title of Austrian nobility from Empress Maria Theresia because he had developed a recipe for a decoction against syphilis . Francesco Pollini inherited this recipe, continued to manufacture the medicine known as " le acque Pollini " and used it to treat nobles and fellow musicians.

Life

Francesco Pollini traveled to Prague in 1783 and to Paris a year later, where he met Antonio Salieri . He introduced him to the French ambassador to the Viennese court, Marie-François-Louis Du Roullet, who was known for his libretti. In March 1786 Pollini was in Vienna and sang the role of Idamante in Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's opera Idomeneo in the Auersperg Palace . Mozart dedicated the duet " Spiegarti non poss'io " for soprano and tenor KV 489 and the " Scena con rondò " for tenor and violin, KV 490 to Baron Pollini. After traveling for around two years, Pollini studied from 1790 in Milan with Niccolò Antonio Zingarelli composition. In 1798 Pollini married the 23-year-old Mariana Gasparini, a passionate harpist. In the same year Pollini's opera “ La casetta nei bochi ” was performed at the Teatro della Cannobiana . In 1801 Il trionfo della pace was given at the Scala in Milan on the occasion of a ceremony for the peace of Amiens .

At the coronation celebrations of Napoleon as King of Italy on May 26, 1805, two larger works by Pollini were performed in the Milan Cathedral , the " Vivat, vivat " and the " Te ergo quaesumus ". In 1812 Pollini wrote a piano forte school " Metodo di clavicembalo " for the Milan Conservatory , a textbook that was used in Italy for decades and earned Pollini honorary membership of the Conservatory.

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Pollini composed sacred cantatas, masses, a Stabat Mater, a Requiem and a Te Deum, several arietts with piano or orchestral accompaniment and, above all, more than 60 opus piano works, such as sonatas and the variations based on the popular operas of the time. Around 60 of his works were printed by various European publishers during his lifetime, especially the Italian Ricordi Verlag.

Stage works

  • "La casetta nel bosco", opera in 3 acts (1798, Milan)
  • "Il genio insubre" Azione teatrale 2 acts (1799, Milan)
  • "Le convenienze teatrali", opera, (incomplete)
  • "Ines di Castro", opera, (incomplete)
  • "Il ripudio fortunato, farsa", (incomplete)

Web link

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ MGG , 2nd edition, Vol. 13, pp. 740-741
personal data
SURNAME Pollini, Francesco
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Pollini, Franz de Paula
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian composer and pianist
DATE OF BIRTH March 26, 1762
PLACE OF BIRTH Laibach
DATE OF DEATH September 17, 1846
Place of death Milan