Giorgio Antoniotti
Giorgio Antoniotti (* around 1692 in Milan ; † 1776 there ) was an Italian composer and cellist.
Life
Giorgio Antoniotti, from a Genoese aristocratic family living in Milan, fled to Genoa as a sympathizer of the Spanish in the War of the Spanish Succession and joined the Spanish army for a long time. He then toured numerous noble courts in Europe and visited cities such as Vienna, Paris, Madrid and Lisbon. According to François-Joseph Fétis , he is said to have lived in the Netherlands for a few years. He later spent more than 20 years of his life in London . In 1761 his work " l'Arte armonica " was published there. He returned to Milan in 1770. There he dealt with the question of whether one can play all notes of the scale at the same time without it sounding unpleasant. This problem was examined by Padre Giovanni Sacchi and accepted as valid. Antoniotti died in Milan in 1776.
Works
- Sonata a violoncello e basso (unpublished manuscript in Durham Cathedral, MS E. 24 (v), iv.6)
- Concerto por Violoncello Parte Principale con 4 ° Violini e due Alto Viole, Basso Continuo e Fondamento per Cimbalo, e Contra Basso , Durham Cathedral MS E.27.
- XII Sonata, le Prima Cinque a Violoncello e Basso, e le Altre Sette a due Violoncelli Overo due Viole di Gamba (Amsterdam, Michel-Charles Le Cène , listed in the 1737 catalog)
literature
- Constantin von Wurzbach : Antoniotti, Georg . In: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich . 1st part. University book printer L. C. Zamarski (formerly JP Sollinger), Vienna 1856, p. 49 ( digitized version ).
- Emilia Zanetti: Giorgio Antoniotto, il suo trattato “L'Arte armonica” (London, 1760) e l'Opera V di Corelli. In: Pierluigi Petrobelli, Gloria Staffieri (eds.): Studi corelliani IV. Atti del Quarto Congresso Internazionale. (Fusignano, September 4-7, 1986) (= Quaderni della Rivista italiana di musicologia. 22). LS Olschki, Florence 1990, ISBN 88-222-3820-6 , pp. 381-401.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ François-Joseph Fétis: Biographie universelle des musiciens et bibliographie génèrale de la musique (1860)
- ^ MGG , 2nd edition, vol. 1, column 793
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Antoniotti, Giorgio |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Antoniotto, Giorgio |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Italian composer and cellist |
DATE OF BIRTH | around 1692 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Milan |
DATE OF DEATH | 1776 |
Place of death | Milan |