Giovanni Maria Ruggieri

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Giovanni Maria Ruggieri (also: Ruggeri ) (* 1665 in Verona ; † around 1725 ) was an Italian Baroque composer who worked in Venice .

Live and act

There is little information about Ruggieri's life. On the cover of his Cara non lacrimar he is mentioned as "Citadino Veronese", on the other hand in 1707 another document from the Venice State Archives mentions that the family of Ruggieri's father came from Ancona . In the foreword to his first sonatas, Op. 1, in 1689 he described himself as a “dilettante”, that is, a non-professional musician. The sonatas Opus 1 and Opus 3 differ in Ruggieri's great leap in maturity. From around 1700 Ruggieri became a fixture in the opera life of Venice. In 1715 Ruggieri was mentioned as Kapellmeister in Pesaro . Today Ruggieri is best known because Antonio Vivaldi ends his Gloria RV Anh.23 and Anh.24 with Ruggieri's Cum sancto spiritu fugue. It is documented that Ruggieri was the auditor of Vivaldi's opera L'inganno trionfante in amore in 1725 .

Works (selection)

String sonatas
  • Op. 1, 10 violin sonatas “Bizarrie armoniche esposite in dieci Sonate con violini, tiorbo e harpsichord” (Giuseppe Sala, Venice 1689), in the library of Count Schönborn-Wiesentheid.
  • Op. 2, 10 trio sonatas "Scherzi geniali ridotti a regola armonica in dieci sonata da camera a tre" (1690)
  • Op. 3, 10 trio sonatas "Suonata da chiesa a tre violini e tiorbo o violone con il suo Basso Continuo per l'organo" (1693) Austrian National Library, music collection
  • Op. 4, 10 trio sonatas under the same title as Op. 3 (1697) is considered lost
Operas
  • La Cleotide (dramma per musica, libretto di Giovanni Battista Neri, 1696, Venice; data anche come Amar per vendetta , 1702, Venice)
  • La Mariamme (dramma per musica, libretto di Lorenzo Burlini, 1696, Venice)
  • La saggia pazzia di Giunio Bruto (dramma per musica, libretto di Lotto Lotti, 1968, Venice)
  • Militia (dramma per musica, libretto di Lotto Lotti, 1699, Venice)
  • Armida abbandonata (dramma per musica, libretto di Francesco Silvani , 1707, Venezia)
  • Arrenione (dramma per musica, libretto di Francesco Silvani , 1708, Venice)
  • Arato in Sparta (dramma per musica, libretto di Benedetto Marcello o Nicolò Minato, 1710, Venice)
  • Non son quella è la difesa (dramma per musica, libretto di Giorgio Antonio Falier, 1710, Venice)
  • L'ingannator ingannato (dramma per musica, libretto di Antonio Marchi, 1710, Venice)
  • Le gare di politica e d'amore (dramma per musica, libretto di Antonio Salvi , 1711, Venice)
  • Elisa (dramma per musica, libretto di Domenico Lalli , 1711, Venice)
  • Arsinoe vendicata (dramma per musica, libretto di Grazio Braccioli , 1712, Venice)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Two settings of the Gloria / Giovanni Maria Ruggieri; by Jasmin Melissa Cameron
  2. ↑ Italian violin music of the 17th century, author Willi Apel
personal data
SURNAME Ruggieri, Giovanni Maria
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ruggeri, Giovanni Maria
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian Baroque composer
DATE OF BIRTH 1665
PLACE OF BIRTH Verona
DATE OF DEATH around 1725