Giuseppe Manfredini (composer)
Giuseppe Manfredini (* around 1710 in Pistoia near Florence ; † around 1780) was an Italian castrato and composer of the late Baroque .
Life
Giuseppe Manfredini came from a family of musicians as the son of Francesco Manfredini and older brother Vincenzo Manfredini . In 1750 he left Pistoia, possibly to travel to London (a collection of six arias by him was published there in 1751). At the end of 1757 or beginning of 1758 he went to Saint Petersburg as a singer with the opera troupe Giovanni Battista Locatellis . After the troops were disbanded, Manfredini went to Moscow, where he stayed until 1766. Among other things, he worked there as a music teacher.
As a castrato, he interpreted the role of Astarbo in June 1757 in the opera Rosbale by the Italian composer Giuseppe Scolari based on a libretto by Francesco Silvani . This performance took place in Padua during the fiera di giugno . In the same year, but during the carnival season and in Ferrara ( Teatro Buonacossi ), Manfredini took over the role of Arbace in the opera Artaserse of Baldassare Galuppi . The role of Artaserse was entrusted to Manfredini in 1758 when the opera was performed in a musical version by Giuseppe Scolari at the Teatro Vendramin di San Salvatore in Venice.
In 1769 Manfredini visited the Mozart family in Salzburg on his return trip from Saint Petersburg. He also met the young Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart on a trip to Italy in July 1770 in Bologna.
A namesake of Manfredini was the Italian painter Giuseppe Manfredini (* around 1740, † around 1815).
Works
- Sei arie con instromenti , manuscript, London 1752, RISM M 343 (London Academy of Music; British Library )
literature
- Essays
- Jean Grundy Fanelli: The Manfredini Family of Musicians of Pistoia. 1684-1803 . In: Studi musicali. Rivista semestrale di studi musicologici. Vol. 26 (1997), ISSN 0303-4631 , pp. 187-232.
- Jean Grundy Fanelli: Manfredini, Francesco . In: Friedrich Blume , Ludwig Finscher (Hrsg.): The music in past and present . Vol. 5, Bärenreiter, Kassel 2004, ISBN 3-7618-1106-3 , pp. 965-966.
- Michael Talbot : Manfredini, Francesco . In: George Grove (original), Sadie Stanley (ed.): The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians , Vol. 11 . Macmillan, London 1980, p. 615.
- Monographs
- Hermann Abert : WA Mozart .
- 1756-1782. 11th edition. Breitkopf & Härtel, Leipzig 1989, ISBN 3-7330-0028-5 .
- 1783-1791. 11th edition. Breitkopf & Härtel, Leipzig, 1990, ISBN 3-7330-0029-3 .
- Erich Kapst: Register for both parts. 4th edition. Breitkopf & Härtel, Leipzig / Wiesbaden 1991, ISBN 3-7651-0197-4 .
- Francesco Cappellini: Quando Pistoia esportava ... virtuosi. L'attività artistica dei castrati nella città di Pistoia . Petite plaisance, Pistoia 2006, ISBN 88-7588-001-8 .
- Robert Aloys Mooser: Annales de la musique et des musiciens en Russie . Ed. Mont Blanc, Geneva 1948ff. (3 vols.).
- The origins à la mort de Pierre III. (1762) . 1948.
- L'époque glorieuse de Cathérine II. (1762–1796) . 1951.
- La règne de Paul Ier. (1796-18091) . 1951.
Individual evidence
- ^ Hermann Abert: WA Mozart. P. 131.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Manfredini, Giuseppe |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Italian castrato and late baroque composer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | around 1710 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Pistoia near Florence |
| DATE OF DEATH | around 1780 |