Giovanni Battista Ferrandini (composer)

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Giovanni Battista Ferrandini

Giovanni Battista Ferrandini (* around 1710 in Venice ; † 25. November 1791 in Munich ) was an Italian composer of the pre-classical period .

Ferrandini received his musical training from Antonino Biffi at the Ospedale dei Mendicanti in Venice and probably completed it with Pietro Torri (1650–1737) and Giuseppe Antonio Bernabei (1649–1732) in Munich, where he stayed at the age of 12 and already as a boy got a job as oboist in the court orchestra. In 1732 he was promoted to chamber composer and in 1737 to director of chamber music. In Munich he composed the opera Catone in Utica for the grand opening of the Residenztheater , which was built by François de Cuvilliés the Elder (1695–1768). In 1755 Ferrandini left Munich and moved to Padua . The visit of Leopold and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart , who visited him in his apartment in 1771, can be seen as a sign of appreciation . He only returned to Munich three years before his death.

Catone in Utica was staged again in 2003 in Munich at the Cuvilliés Theater ; the musical direction was by Christoph Hammer ( Neue Hofkapelle Munich ).

Works (selection)

Stage works
  • Gordio ( Perozzo da Perozzi ), Dramma per musica (Munich, 1727)
  • Il sacrificio invalido (Perozzo da Perozzi), Dramma per musica (Nymphenburg, 1729)
  • Colloquio pastorale (Perozzo da Perozzi), Serenata (Nymphenburg, 1729)
  • Berenice ( Leopoldo de Villati ), Dramma per musica (Munich, 1730)
  • Scipione nelle Spagne ( Apostolo Zeno ), Dramma per musica (Munich, 1732)
  • Adriano in Siria ( Pietro Metastasio ), Dramma per musica (Munich, 1737)
  • Demofoonte (Metastasio), Dramma per musica (Munich, 1737)
  • Artaserse (Metastasio), Dramma per musica (Munich, 1739)
  • Componimento dramatico per l'incoronazioe di Carlo VII (Frankfurt, 1742)
  • Catone in Utica (Metastasio), Dramma per musica (Munich, 1753), for the opening of today's Residenztheater
  • Le grazie vendicate (Metastasio), Serenata (Munich, 1753)
  • Diana placata (Metastasio), Serenata (Munich, 1755)
  • Demetrio (Metastasio), Dramma per musica (1758)
  • Talestri ( Maria Antonia Walpurgis ), Opera drammatica (Munich, 1760)
  • L'amor prigioniero , Componimento drammatico (Munich, 1781)
Cantatas
  • 36 cantatas for one voice and B. c. (1739)
  • 39 cantatas for one voice and B. c. (1753)
  • The cantata Il pianto di Maria , previously ascribed to Georg Friedrich Handel (HWV 234).
Instrumental
  • Op. 1: 6 sonatas for transverse flute and B. c. ( Le Cène , Amsterdam)
  • Op. 2: 6 sonatas for transverse flute, oboe or violin and B. c. (Boivin and Le Clerc, Paris)
  • 25 symphony
  • 3 trio sonatas
  • 2 Dilettamenti da camera
  • 1 divertimento for 2 violins and B. c.

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