Giorgio Maria Rapparini
Giorgio Maria Rapparini (* 1660 in Bologna , † 1726 in Mannheim ) was an Italian court official, librettist , poet and draftsman at the Palatinate court.
Live and act
He grew up in poor conditions in Bologna, where he worked as a painter, was secretary of the city senate and came to the Palatinate court through his sister, a singer. From 1685–1716 he is documented in Düsseldorf as Italian language secretary and from 1710 also as court chamber councilor to Elector Johann Wilhelm . Most recently he lived in Mannheim , where he also died. His relative Maria Dorothea Rapparini married the electoral Palatinate privy councilor Joseph Fontanesi there in 1740 .
Giorgio Maria Rapparini already wrote libretti in Italy, for example for the opera “Berenice vendicatiua” by the sacred composer Giovanni Domenico Freschi , published in Padua in 1680, or for the opera “La Flavia” by his friend Giacomo Antonio Perti , published in Bologna in 1686 . At the Düsseldorf court, he wrote numerous other opera librettos, including works by Sebastiano Moratelli , Johann Hugo von Wilderer and Agostino Steffani . Several printed text books have been preserved from him. In 1709 he published the book “Le portrait du vrai mérite dans la personne serenissime de Monseigneur L'Electeur Palatin” on the elector's name day , a. a. with numerous medals designed and drawn by him. This work, a portrait of the elector and his environment, provides information about the artistic and cultural life at the Düsseldorf court at that time. With regard to the time of Johann Wilhelm, the historian Theodor Levin calls the book “the most direct and trustworthy source as far as artistic facts are concerned” .
One of his students in Bologna was the painter Donato Creti (1671–1749).
literature
- Le portrait du vrai mérite dans la personne serenissime de Monseigneur L'Electeur Palatine . Manuscript (1709), edited by H. Kühn-Steinhausen as Vol. IV of the publications of the State Library and City Library Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf 1958.
- G. Steffen: JH von Wilderer, in: Contributions to Rhenish Music History XL, Cologne 1960.
- Ekkehard Mai : Holland after Rembrandt: on Dutch art between 1670 and 1750. Volume 10, p. 33, Böhlau Verlag Cologne, 2006, ISBN 3412070068 (Digitalscan) .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Eric Garberson: Italian paintings of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries , p. 77, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC., 1996; (Detail scan)
- ↑ Paolo Cassoli: Giacomo Antonio Perti e la collana dell'Imperatore , in: Comune di Crevalcore: Rassegna storica crevalcorese , No. 2, December 2005, p. 43 (PDF edition of the magazine) ( Memento of the original of October 30, 2017 in Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Claudia Kaufold: A musician as a diplomat , page 46, published by regional history, 1997, ISBN 3895341959
- ^ Website of the painting collection of Elector Johann Wilhelm
- ^ Website of the city of Düsseldorf
- ^ Digital view of the libretto of the opera "Berenice vendicatiua" by Giovanni Domenico Freschi, 1680
- ^ Digital view of the libretto for "La Flavia" by Giacomo Antonio Perti, 1686
- ^ Digital view of a libretto Rapparini for an opera by Sebastiano Moratelli
- ^ Digital view of another Rapparini libretto for Sebastiano Moratelli, 1698
- ↑ Digital view of a Rapparini libretto for Johann Hugo von Wilderer, 1700
- ^ Gerhard Croll: Music history from Rapparini's Johann Wilhelm manuscript (1709) , in: Die Musikforschung , 11th year (1958), issue 3, pp. 257-264; (Detail scan)
- ↑ Old Masters: Drawings and Watercolors from the Graphic Collection , p. 202, Kunstmuseum Bern, 2000, ISBN 3906628280 ; (Detail scan)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Rapparini, Giorgio Maria |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Italian librettist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1660 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Bologna |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1726 |
| Place of death | Mannheim |