Giovanni Marco Rutini

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Giovanni Marco Rutini

Giovanni Marco Rutini (born April 25, 1723 in Florence , † December 22, 1797 ibid) was an Italian composer .

biography

Giovanni Marco Rutini was trained at the Conservatorio della Pietà dei Turchini in Naples from 1739 , among his most important teachers were Leonardo Leo and Nicola Fago as well as the violin teacher Vitoantonio Pagliarulo (1698–1743). After finishing his studies he stayed in Prague, where his harpsichord sonatas op. 1 were composed. In Prague he met the opera impresario Giovanni Battista Locatelli , who had his first two operas performed. In the following years he stayed in Berlin and Dresden. Back in Prague he met the Saxon Electress Maria Antonia Walpurgis , who wrote the text for his cantata Lavina a Turno in 1756 . His first comic opera, Il negligente , was performed in Saint Petersburg in 1758 . Rutini was maestro di harpsichord with the future Tsarina Catherine II and conductor with Count Pëtr Borisovič.

From 1761 he lived again in Florence and composed numerous operas with great success. At the same time he studied with Padre Martini , with whom he corresponded until 1780. As early as 1762 Rutini was accepted into the Accademia Filarmonica in Bologna. In Genoa he composed the cantata Genii, gloria, virtù for the future governor ( doge ) of the city, Francesco Maria della Rovere . From 1770 Rutini was maestro di capella at the court of Modena , but continued to live in Florence, expecting to get a more prestigious position there at the court of the Medici. He also composed several successful operas for Florence and was maestro al cembalo at the Teatro degli Intrepidi. In the last years of his life he mainly composed sacred music.

In addition to Baldassare Galuppi , he contributed most to the success of the Italian opera at the Tsar's court. While operatic work has not yet been systematically researched, this is not true of his instrumental work, including more than 60 piano sonatas in which he prefers a three-movement scheme. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was familiar with Rutini's sonatas, as evidenced by a letter by Leopold Mozart from August 1771. However, apart from a few similar elements, his influence on Mozart's sonatas remains minimal.

His son Ferdinando Rutini (1763-1827) was also an esteemed opera composer.

Operas

  • Alessandro nell'Indie (libretto by Pietro Metastasio , 1750, Prague)
  • Semiramide (Pietro Metastasio, 1752, Prague)
  • Il retiro degli dei (libretto by Giovanni Battista Locatelli , 1757, Saint Petersburg)
  • Il negligente (libretto by Carlo Goldoni , 1758, Saint Petersburg)
  • Il caffè di campagna (libretto by Pietro Chiari , 1762, Bologna)
  • I matrimoni in maschera (Gli sposi in maschera; Il tutore burlato) (Libretto by F. Casorri, 1763, Cremona)
  • Ezio (Pietro Metastasio, 1763, Florence)
  • L'olandese in Italia (Libretto by N. Tassoi, 1765, Florence)
  • L'amore industrioso (libretto by G. Casorri, 1765, Venice)
  • Il contadino incivilito (libretto by O. Goretti, 1766, Florence)
  • Le contese domestiche (Le contese deluse) (Intermezzo, 1766, Florence)
  • L'amor tra l'armi (Libretto by N. Tassi, 1768, Siena)
  • Faloppa mercante (Gli sponsali di Faloppa) (1769, Florence)
  • La Nitteti (Pietro Metastasio, 1770, Modena)
  • L'amor per rigiro (Libretto by N. Tassi, 1773, Florence)
  • Vologeso re de 'Parti (Libretto by Apostolo Zeno , 1775, Florence)
  • Sicotencal (libretto by C. Olivieri, 1776, Turin)
  • Il finto amante (1776, Pistoia)
  • Gli stravaganti

Music for keyboard instruments

  • Concerto per clavicembalo, violino e basso continuo
  • 6 sonata per clavicembalo op.1 (1748)
  • 6 sonata per clavicembalo op.2 (1754)
  • 6 sonata per clavicembalo op.3 (1756)
  • 6 sonata per clavicembalo op.5 (1758)
  • 6 sonata per clavicembalo op.6 (1759)
  • 6 sonata per clavicembalo op.6bis (1762)
  • 6 sonata per clavicembalo op.7 (1770)
  • 6 sonata per clavicembalo op.8 (1774)
  • 6 sonata per clavicembalo op.9 (1774)
  • 6 sonata per clavicembalo op.10 (1776)
  • 6 sonata per clavicembalo op.11 (1778)
  • 6 sonata per clavicembalo op.12 (1780)
  • 6 sonata per clavicembalo op.13 (1782)
  • 3 sonata per clavicembalo op.14 (1786)
  • 12 Divertimenti facili e brevi per clavicembalo for four hands op.18 (1793)
  • Rondò per fortepiano solo (o con accompagnamento orchestrale) op.19 (1797)

Web links

Commons : Giovanni Marco Rutini  - Collection of Images, Videos and Audio Files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Music in the past and present . 2nd edition, volume 14, columns 706-708
personal data
SURNAME Rutini, Giovanni Marco
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Rutini, Giovanni Maria; Rutini Giovanni Placido
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian composer
DATE OF BIRTH April 25, 1723
PLACE OF BIRTH Florence
DATE OF DEATH December 22, 1797
Place of death Florence