Giuseppe Bonno

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Giuseppe Bonno

Giuseppe Bonno (born January 29, 1711 in Vienna ; † April 15, 1788 ibid) - baptized Josephus Johannes Baptista Bonno in St. Stephen's Church - was an Austrian composer .

Life

His father, Lucretius Bonno, was a native Italian and served as a runner in the imperial service. The son received his first training as a choirboy at St. Stephen's Cathedral from the organist and conductor Johann Georg Reinhardt (1676–1742) there. He then continued his studies with Francesco Durante and Leonardo Leo in Naples. He returned to Vienna after ten years and was Kapellmeister at the court of the Prince of Saxony-Hildburghausen from 1750 to 1760 . After Florian Gassmann's death , he was Kapellmeister of the Vienna Court Orchestra from 1774 until his retirement in 1788 . His successor was Antonio Salieri .

In contrast to his current level of fame, Bonno was an important figure in Viennese musical life during his lifetime, and his works were performed frequently. He created the majority of his compositions, including four oratorios and around 30 masses, for church use. He also wrote around 20 works for the stage, including some in direct collaboration with the Vienna-based librettist Pietro Metastasio, such as L'eroe cinese and L'isola disabitata (both 1752), and L'Atenaide ossia Gli affetti generosi (1762).

Stylistically, his works can be classified between those of the Venetian late baroque by Antonio Caldara and Johann Joseph Fux and the classical works by Christoph Willibald Gluck and Joseph Haydn , but also shaped by his longer stay in Naples.

Works (selection)

Operas

  • Nigella e Nise (1732, Naples)
  • L'amore insuperabile (1736, Vienna)
  • Trajano (1736, Vienna)
  • La gara del genio con Giunone (1737, Laxenburg)
  • Alessandro Severo (1737, Vienna)
  • La generosità di Artaserse (1737, Vienna)
  • La pace richiamata (1738, Vienna)
  • La pietà di Numa (1738, Vienna)
  • La vera nobilità (1739, Vienna)
  • Il natale di Numa Pompilio (1739, Vienna)
  • Il nume d'Atene (1739, Vienna)
  • La generosa Spartana (1740, Laxenburg)
  • Il natal di Giove (1740, Vienna)
  • Catone in Utica (Pasticcio, 1742, Vienna)
  • Il vero omaggio (1743, Schönbrunn)
  • Danae (not listed)
  • Ezio (not listed)
  • L'Armida placata (with wagon rope, Luca Antonio Predieri, Hasse and Abos, 1750, Vienna)
  • Il re pastore (1751, Schönbrunn)
  • L'eroe cinese (1752, Schönbrunn)
  • L'isola disabitata (1754, Vienna)
  • Didone abbandonata (1752, not listed)
  • L'Atenaide ovvero Gli affetti più generosi (1762, not listed)
  • Il sogno si Scipione (1763, Vienna)

Oratorios

Other vocal works

Instrumental

  • Concerto for flute and orchestra in G major
  • Sinfonia a 4 "a il giorno natalizio di Carlo"
  • Sinfonia a 3 in G major
  • Sinfonia in D major

literature

  • Karin Breitner: Giuseppe Bonno and his oratorios. Vienna 1961, (Vienna, University, PhD thesis, 1961).
  • Daniel Heartz : Haydn, Mozart and the Viennese School. 1740-1780. Norton, New York NY et al. 1995, ISBN 0-393-03712-6 , pp. 115-120.
  • Sigrid Kleindienst: Marginalia to Giuseppe Bonno's Requiem. In: Roswitha Vera Karpf (Hrsg.): Music at the court of Maria Theresa. In memoriam Vera Schwarz (= contributions to performance practice. 6). Katzbichler, Munich et al. 1984, ISBN 3-87397-332-4 , pp. 131-140.
  • Raoul Meloncelli: Un operista italiano alla corte di Vienna: Giuseppe Bonno (1710–1788). In: Chigiana. 29/30, 1975, ISSN  0069-3391 , pp. 331-142.
  • Erich Schenk :  Bonno, Giuseppe. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 2, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1955, ISBN 3-428-00183-4 , p. 448 ( digitized version ).
  • Alfred Schienerl: The church compositions of Giuseppe Bonno. Vienna 1925, (Vienna, university, phil. Dissertation, 1925; partial print: Giuseppe Bonnos Kirchenkompositionen. In: Studien zur Musikwissenschaft. 15, 1928, ISSN  0930-9578 , pp. 62–85).
  • Egon Wellesz : Giuseppe Bonno (1710–1788). His life and his dramatic works. In: Edited volumes of the International Music Society. 11, 1909/1911, ZDB -ID 507183-5 , pp. 395-442.

Web links

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b anthologies of the international music society, volume 11, page 395.
personal data
SURNAME Bonno, Giuseppe
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian composer
DATE OF BIRTH January 29, 1711
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH April 15, 1788
Place of death Vienna