Giovanni Andrea Bontempi

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Giovanni Andrea Bontempi , actually GA Angelini (* around 1624 in Perugia , † July 1, 1705 in Brufa near Perugia) was an Italian singer ( castrato ), music writer and composer .

Life

Angelini named himself after his guardian Cesare Bontempi. After training in Rome as a student of Virgilio Mazzocchi , he joined the chapel at San Marco in Venice in 1643 as a castrato singer . In 1650 he followed the call of Johann Georg I to move to the chapel of the Elector of Saxony as a composer and singer. In 1657 he became the vice conductor of the court orchestra under Heinrich Schütz . In 1664 he moved to the court theater of Johann Georg II as an architect and machinist, or became the inspettore of the Dresden Komödienhaus. Three years later Bontempi retired and spent the years 1668 to 1671 in Italy, where he continued to work as a composer and writer, but also as a historian and architect. In 1680 he retired into private life and lived on his estate near Perugia until his death.

Bontempi created three operas , an oratorio and other sacred music. In addition, he wrote works on music theory. He and his co-conductor Marco Giuseppe Peranda were the creators of the first completely preserved opera in German. Their jointly composed musical play by the Dafne was premiered in 1672 in the newly built Dresden Opera House on Taschenberg by the Saxon Elector Johann Georg II.

In 1697, because of his merits, in particular because of the work Historia dell 'Origine dei Sassoni , German translation in 1666 as Histories of the Most Serene House of Saxony. First book. Deutziert from the Italian by Johann Georg Richter. Dreßden, printed by Melchior Bergen, Electoral Saxon Court printer included in the Peruvian Accademia degli Insensati .

plant

  • Nova quatuor vocibus componendi methodus (composition theory) (1660 Dresden)
  • Il Paride (Opera in Five Acts) (Nov. 3, 1662 Dresden)
  • Life and Martyrdom of Saint Emiliano (Oratory) (1662 Dresden)
  • Musical Play by the Dafne (Opera) (February 9, 1672 Dresden)
  • Jupiter and Jo (Opera) (January 16, 1673 Dresden); also together with Marco Giuseppe Peranda.

literature

  • Klaus Pietschmann : Giovanni Andrea Angelini Bontempi as an unusual actor in the transfer of musical knowledge between Italy and the empire after the Thirty Years War . In: Sabina Brevaglieri, Matthias Schnettger (eds.) Transfer processes between the Old Kingdom and Italy in the 17th century. Knowledge configurations - actors - networks . transcript, Bielefeld 2018, ISBN 978-3-8376-3293-4 , pp. 61–89.
  • Wolfram Steude, Emilia Zanetti:  Bontempi, Giovanni Andrea. In: Ludwig Finscher (Hrsg.): The music in past and present . Second edition, personal section, volume 3 (Bjelinski - Calzabigi). Bärenreiter / Metzler, Kassel et al. 2000, ISBN 3-7618-1113-6  ( online edition , subscription required for full access)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Moritz Fürstenau: On the history of music and theater at the court of Dresden. Dresden 1861, p. 138 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
personal data
SURNAME Bontempi, Giovanni Andrea
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Angelini, GA (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian singer (castrato), music writer and composer
DATE OF BIRTH around 1624
PLACE OF BIRTH Perugia
DATE OF DEATH July 1, 1705
Place of death Brufa near Perugia