Giovanni Battista Costanzi
Giovanni Battista Costanzi (born September 3, 1704 in Rome ; † March 5, 1778 ibid) was an Italian composer and cellist of the pre-classical period. He was sometimes called "Giovannino del Violoncello" or "Giovannino da Roma".
Life
Giovanni Battista Costanzi may have been a pupil of Giovanni Antonio Haym (1660–1729). A frequently mentioned apprenticeship with Giovanni Lorenzo Lulier is unlikely, since he died in March 1700. In 1721 Costanzi entered the service of Cardinal Pietro Ottoboni : first as "aiuto da camera" (valet), then from 1737 as "capo d'istrumenti" in the succession of Arcangelo Corelli . In 1722 he appeared for the first time in the Church of San Luigi dei Francesi . Costanzi, whom André Grétry considered one of the most popular composers of church music in Rome, also worked as maestro di cappella in other churches in his hometown . Although he was one of the fertile composers of the 18th century, only a small part of his oeuvre, including an opera, has survived.
Works (selection)
- Rome giuliva (Libretto: Gaetano Lemer , 1721, Rome)
- La Fenice (cantata per 3 voci, libretto: Domenico Lalli , 1726, Venice)
- L'amor generoso (dramma per musica, libretto: Apostolo Zeno / Giuseppe Polvini , 1727, Rome)
- Per la festività del Santo Natale (sacro componimento drammatico, libretto: Pietro Metastasio , 1727, Palazzo della Cancelleria in Rome)
- Carlo Magno (festa teatrale, libretto: Pietro Ottoboni , 1728, Rome)
- Componimento da cantarsi nel giorno onomastico della imperatrice Elisabetta Cristina (1729, Rome)
- Rasmene (favola drammatica, libretto: Giuseppe Polivni , 1729, Rome)
- L'Eupatra (dramma per musica, libretto: Giovanni Faustini , 1730, Rome)
- La Pertenope (dramma per musica, libretto: Silvio Stampiglia , 1734, Rome)
- La Flora (dramma pastorale, 1734, Rome)
- Componimento drammatica per comandamento di SE il Duca di Saint'Aignon (Libretto: Niccola Coluzzi , 1737, Rome)
- Il tionfo della pace (componimento drammatico, libretto: Girolamo Melano , 1739, Rome)
- Il Telemaco (1741, Rome)
- Il Vesuvio (Libretto: Antonio Passeri, 1741, Rome)
- Componimento del giorno natalizio di Don Carlo di Borbone (Libretto: Gioacchino Pizzi , 1742, Rome)
- La Nisa (componimento drammatico, libretto: Antonio Passeri , 1742, Rome)
- Cantata a 3 voci con violini, trombe, oboe e corni da caccia (Libretto: Pietro Metastasio , 1743, Rome)
- Componimento per musica da cantarsi nel giorno natalizio di Maria Amalia Walburga (1743, Rome)
- L'asilo delle virtù (componimento per musica, 1744, Rome)
- La speranza della terra (1744, Rome)
- L'Iride (cantata, 1745, Rome)
- Enea in Cuma (cantata, 1746, Rome)
- Intermezzi in musica (Libretto: Giovanni Battista Palladio, 1746, Rome)
- Gioas re di Giuda (oratorio, libretto: Pietro Metastasio, 1748, Rome)
- Amor prigioniero (azione teatrale, libretto: Gioacchino Pizzi, 1752, Rome)
- La morte d'Abel (oratorio, libretto: Pietro Metastasio, 1758, Rome)
- Sant'Elena al Calvario (oratorio, libretto: Pietro Metastasio, 1758, Macerata)
- Cantata a tre voci Elpino, Tirsi, e Angelo con stromenti per la notte di Santissimo Natale (performed on December 24, 1723 in the Palazzo Apostolico in Rome)
In December 2011, his Cantata a tre voci Elpino, Tirsi, e Angelo con stromenti per la notte di Santissimo Natale, composed for the Pope in 1723, was performed again for the first time in around 300 years in the Mauerbach Charterhouse .
Web links
- Sheet music and audio files by Giovanni Battista Costanzi in the International Music Score Library Project
- Digitized works by Costanzi in the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek
- Costanzi's CV on HOASM
- Search for operas by Giovanni Battista Costanzi (search term in the Autore field : “Costanzi Giovanni Battista”) in the Corago information system of the University of Bologna
- List of stage works by Giovanni Battista Costanzi based on the MGG at Operone
Individual evidence
- ↑ Maria Lopriore: CV in Dictionnaire Biografico degli Italiani (1984)
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SURNAME | Costanzi, Giovanni Battista |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Italian composer and cellist of the pre-classical period |
DATE OF BIRTH | September 3, 1704 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Rome |
DATE OF DEATH | March 5, 1778 |
Place of death | Rome |