Gaetano Pugnani

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Gaetano Pugnani (1754)

Gaetano Pugnani (born November 27, 1731 in Turin ; † July 15, 1798 there ; actually Giulio Gaetano Gerolamo Pugnani ) was an Italian violinist and composer .

Life

Through his teachers Giovanni Battista Somis and Pasquale Bini , Pugnani stood as a violinist in the tradition of Arcangelo Corelli and Giuseppe Tartini .

At the age of 10 he became a member of the orchestra of the Teatro Regio di Torino and in 1748 a member of the royal chapel in Turin. A year later he stayed in Rome for a year at the court's expense, where he received composition lessons from Francesco Ciampi and violin lessons from Pascuale Bini. In 1770 he became concertmaster of the royal band and the Teatro Regio. He stayed in Paris for the first time in 1754 , where he gave three enthusiastically received concerts at the Concert spirituel . In London he was concertmaster at the King's Theater from 1767 to 1769 and during this time he often worked with the Johann Christian Bach andKarl Friedrich Abel helped organize concerts. During this time his first opera Nanetta e Lubino was performed at the King's Theater . In 1770 he returned to Turin and taught in his own music school, among others, Giovanni Battista Viotti , who described himself in his prints as a student of the famous Pugnani . Until 1780 he made only two trips to Paris.

After Pugnani took over the leadership of the Turin Royal Chapel in 1776, he also began to make a name for himself as a composer, but never came close to his fame as a violinist. With his pupil Viotti, who had already developed into a virtuoso musician, he undertook a concert tour from 1780–1782 that led via Geneva, Bern, Vienna, Dresden, Berlin and Warsaw to Saint Petersburg, where he stayed longer and from Viotti separated. After returning to Turin in 1781, he left the city only a few times to travel to Naples and Vienna, respectively.

Pugnani was one of the outstanding violinists of the 18th century, who was best known for his powerful playing ("arco magno") and his technical safety, with which he contributed to the development of modern playing technique. His numerous students include Viotti, Antonio Bartolomeo Bruni , Luigi Borghi and Giovanni Battista Polledro . Via Viotti, Pugnani's playing technique passed to his students Pierre Rode and Pierre Baillot , both of whom were among the first teachers at the Paris Conservatory .

In the 20th century his name became known through the "Prelude and Allegro" composed by Fritz Kreisler and "Tempo di Minuetto" in the style of Gaetano Pugnani.

Works

Most of the sonatas mentioned have been published several times and under different opus numbers, so only the first publications are mentioned here.

  • 6 sonatas op.3 for violin and continuo (first printed in Paris 1760)
  • 6 sonatas op.7 for violin and continuo (first printed in London 1770)
  • 6 sonatas op.8 for violin and continuo (first printed in Amsterdam 1774)
  • 6 trio sonatas op. 1 (first edition Paris 1754)
  • 6 trio sonatas op. 2 (first printed in London 1765)
  • 6 Duets op.4 (first printed in London 1770)
  • several symphonies
  • The symphonic poem Werther, melogo in due parti , for Goethe's Werther (lost)
  • several operas
  • La Betulia liberata (probably in the 1780s)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Clive Unger-Hamilton, Neil Fairbairn, Derek Walters; German arrangement: Christian Barth, Holger Fliessbach, Horst Leuchtmann, et al .: The music - 1000 years of illustrated music history . Unipart-Verlag, Stuttgart 1983, ISBN 3-8122-0132-1 , p. 89 .
  2. ↑ Fausto Torrefranca: Entry in the Enciclopedia Italiana (1935)
  3. ^ François-Joseph Fétis : Entry in Biographie universelle des musiciens et bibliographie génèrale de la musique (1864)
personal data
SURNAME Pugnani, Gaetano
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Pugnani, Giulio Gaetano Gerolamo (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian violinist and composer
DATE OF BIRTH November 27, 1731
PLACE OF BIRTH Turin
DATE OF DEATH July 15, 1798
Place of death Turin