Giuseppe Balducci (composer)

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Giuseppe Balducci (born May 2, 1796 in Jesi , † 1845 in Málaga ) was an Italian composer .

Life

Giuseppe Balducci received musical training as a child. At the age of 17 he founded an amateur orchestra with which he performed some of the then popular operas by Johann Simon Mayr and Ferdinando Paër . He himself was a conductor and first tenor of the troupe. In 1817 he fled to Naples to avoid a duel in Jesi. In Naples he was first a student with Giacomo Tritto and then with Niccolò Antonio Zingarelli . He became the music teacher of the better Neapolitan society and founded another orchestra made up entirely of his own students. The close friendship with the Capece Minutolo family was to shape his future life and work. The three daughters of Raimondo and the Marchesa Matilde della Sonora Capece Minutolo (Paolina, Adelaide and Clotilde) were Balducci music students, "for he put a veritable library of sheet music, which is now in the Conservatory of San Pietro a Majella in Naples." For he also wrote his salon operas , which were performed in private. In the 1830s, the family salon became a well-known music salon in Naples.

When Raimond Capece Minutolo died in 1827, Balducci had become something of a manager and business advisor to the family. After the Marchesa's death in Málaga in 1839, he took over responsibility and remained closely connected to the family. His health increasingly forced him to stay longer in Spain. He started his last trip in 1845, sick and had to interrupt it in Marseille. Instead of returning to Naples, he continued his journey to Malaga, where he died.

research

Not much would be known of the composer's life and work without the latest research by New Zealand musicologist Jeremy Commons . Balducci is forgotten in his hometown of Jesi. Since the 1980s, Commons has been collecting information about Balducci's life in archives and libraries in Naples, Bologna, Jesi and other Italian cities and discovered sheet music for some of his works. It is thanks to him that this composer was rediscovered and has since been performed again.

Works

Operas

  • Le nozze di Don Desiderio. , Melodramma per musica. 1823
  • Tazia. Dramma in un atto. 1826
  • Bianca Turenga. Melodramma in tre atti. 1838

Salon operas

  • Boabdil - Re di Granata . Opera Seria in two acts. 1827. First private performance in Naples in March 1827. Public premiere at Rossini in Wildbad , Bad Wildbad, July 7, 2007, directed by Kay Link .
  • I lost. (German: Die Jeaersuchtigen. ) 1834. Revived in 2006 at Rossini in Wildbad .
  • Il noce di Benevento . 1837. Performed again in 2011 at Rossini in Wildbad .
  • Il Conte di Marsico. Melodramma. 1839. Revival in 2016 at the Teatro Sarrià in Barcelona and at Rossini in Wildbad .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Marie-Anne Kohl: Giuseppe Balducci. In: Program for Boabdil - Re di Granata . Published by the Rossini Festival in Wildbad 2007 . P. 6.
  2. ↑ Compare the research of the New Zealand musicologist Jeremy Commons in On rediscovering a forgotten composer - Giuseppe Balducci. In: Introducing Giuseppe Balducci. New Zealand Opera Society, 2007 ?.
personal data
SURNAME Balducci, Giuseppe
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian composer
DATE OF BIRTH May 2, 1796
PLACE OF BIRTH Jesi
DATE OF DEATH 1845
Place of death Málaga