Frangiskos Domeneginis

Frangiskos Domeneginis

Frangiskos-Lambrinos Domeneginis ( Greek Φραγκίσκος-Λαμπρινός Δομενεγίνης even Domenikinis Δομενικίνης, Italian. Francesco Domeneghini; * 1807 or 1809 on Zakynthos , † 1874 ) was a Greek nationalist and politician , poet, painter and composer of the Ionian School .

Life

Domeneginis came from the noble family Domeneghini, which was recorded in the Venetian Libro d'Oro and was influential on Zakynthos , whose members were signatories of the constitutions of the Republic of the Ionian Islands . He first studied music in Zakynthos and Siena , then enrolled for a short time to study law in Bologna , which he broke off after a short time in order to take part in the last battles of the Greek Revolution under Ioannis Kapodistrias against the Ottoman Empire as a cavalryman Euboea to participate. After his murder in 1831, he left the army and returned to Zakynthos, where he initially devoted himself to music and theater. Apparently he also took lessons from Nikolaos Mantzaros in Corfu .

Under the High Commissioner of the British Crown, George Nugent-Grenville , he belonged to the Liberal Party ( gr.Kómma ton filefthéron Κόμμα των Φιλελευθέρων) of the Ionian Islands, so he and Antonios Gaitas brought a request for the reorganization of the Ionian state to the British Queen Victoria . Later he joined the party of the radicals ( Kómma ton Rizopastón Κόμμα των Ριζοσπαστ undν) and signed the resolution to join the Ionian Islands to Greece as one of ten MPs . For this he was exiled by the High Commissioner Henry George Ward to the island of Andikythira , where he was interned from December 1851 to October 1853. The letters from there to his wife Elisabet, daughter of a Russian consul, were later published and testify to the hardships of the men in exile and the high commissioner's harsh rejection of any attempts at reconciliation.

After his release, Domeneginis continued his political struggle against foreign rule over the Ionian Islands and fought for the release of his party comrades. He was a member of the Provincial Assembly of Zakynthos and the 'Greco-Italian Committees' that supported the Risorgimento cause in Italy and saw it as a model for the unification of Greece. He was one of the representatives of the Ionian Islands at the Second Athens National Assembly, which drafted the Constitution of Greece of 1864. For his participation in the War of Independence he received the Aristio tou Agona Medal for Bravery.

In addition to his political activities, Domeneginis was active artistically in many ways, such as an amateur actor, painter, but above all as a composer. All of Domenegini's musical works are lost today. We know of poems by Dionysios Solomos , Julius Typaldos and Kandianos Romas being set to music . After unification with Greece, he wrote a royal hymn for choir and orchestra, which was heard on George I's first visit to Zakynthos, as well as an introduction for orchestra. He was one of the first composers to make the events of the Greek War of Independence the subject of operas, namely with Markos Botsaris (based on a libretto by the Zakynthian Georgios Lagouidaras) and with Despo, irois tou Souliou ('Despo, heroine of Souli ', Italian libretto from Typaldos). Orthodox church music formed a special focus in his work. A manual on music theory ( Greek Εγχειρίδιο θεωρητικής μουσικής Enchiridio theoritikis mousikis ) from his pen has also been lost.

literature

• Takis Kalogeropoulos: Frangiskos-Lambrinos Domeneginis . In: Lexiko tis Ellinikis mousikis . Athens 1998–99, wiki.musicportal.gr

Individual evidence

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2. ↑ A Nadal Domeneghini signed the provisional constitution of 1799 ( [2]  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this note. ), A Giulio Domeneghini of the United States of the Ionian Islands 1817 (Ed. Of the British Protectorate: Le tre costituzioni (1800, 1803, 1817) delle Sette Isole Jonie , Corfu 1849)