Giuseppe Nicolini (composer)

Giuseppe Nicolini 1825

Giuseppe Nicolini or Niccolini (born January 29, 1762 in Piacenza , † December 18, 1842 ibid) was an Italian opera composer .

Life

Nicolini is considered one of the most productive composers of his time, he wrote 45 operas in all. He studied in Naples and began composing operas immediately after graduating. He had his breakthrough with the Baccanali di Roma (1801), and over the next decade he quickly became one of Italy's most popular opera composers. In 1811 he visited Vienna and his two operas Le nozze dei Morlacchi and Quinto Fabio Rutiliano were well received by the audience. In the opera I Baccanali di Roma had Angelica Catalani as Fecennia her debut whose part he wrote directly for the singer, for whom it was their first great triumph.

Subsequently, its star began to decline rapidly due to Gioachino Rossini's successes. To compensate, he was able to get involved in the music scene in his hometown. From 1819 he primarily devoted himself to creating religious music. In 1842 he died almost penniless.

Nicolini uses the orchestra with great skill. He often wrote a little more freely than the rules would have required. With increasing age he was considered a master of his art, who is rather unknown today, but who is still there to be discovered.

Operas

• La famiglia stravagante (dramma giocoso, libretto by Giuseppe Petrosellini, Parma, Teatro Ducale, 1793)
• Gli inganni amorosi (dramma giocoso, libretto by Antonio Porcieri, Piacenza 1794, with other authors)
• Il principe spazzacamino (dramma giocoso in one act, libretto by Giuseppe Maria Foppa , Genoa, Teatro Sant'Agostino, spring 1794)
• I molinari (intermezzo in one act, libretto by Cosimo Mazzini, Genoa, Teatro Sant'Agostino, spring 1794)
• Le nozze campestri (opera buffa in two acts, libretto by Francesco Marconi, Milan, Teatro alla Scala , 13 September 1794)
• Artaserse (opera seria in three acts, libretto by Pietro Metastasio , Venice, Teatro La Fenice , November 14, 1795) with Luigi Marchesi
• La donna innamorata (dramma giocoso in two acts, libretto by Giovanni Bertati , Venice, Teatro San Moisè , January 28, 1796)
• Alzira (opera seria in two acts, libretto by Gaetano Marrè, Genoa, Teatro Sant'Agostino, December 26, 1796)
• La clemenza di Tito (opera seria in three acts, libretto by Pietro Metastasio, Livorno , Teatro degli Avvalorati , summer 1797)
• I due fratelli ridicoli ( Li fratelli ridicoli ) (dramma giocoso in two acts, libretto by Filippo Livigni, Rome, Teatro Valle , autumn 1798)
• Bruto (opera seria in two acts, libretto by Gaetano Marrè, Genoa, Teatro Sant'Agostino, December 26, 1798)
• Gli Sciti (opera seria in two acts, libretti by Gaetano Rossi, Milan, Teatro alla Scala, January 21, 1799)
• Il trionfo del bel sesso ossia La forza delle donne (opera buffa in two acts, libretto by Luigi Romanelli , Milan, Teatro alla Scala, August 20, 1799)
• Indatiro (opera seria in two acts, Genoa, Teatro Sant'Agostino, Carnival 1800)
• Il medico d'Ischia (melodramma, Palermo, Teatro Santa Cecilia, Carnival 1800)
• La finta erede (melodramma giocoso, Palermo, Teatro Santa Cecilia, Carnival 1800)
• I baccanali di Roma (opera seria in two acts, libretto by Luigi Romanelli, Milan, Teatro alla Scala, January 21, 1801 with Angelica Catalani and Adamo Bianchi)
• Il conte di Lenosse (melodramma eroico in two acts, libretto by Gaetano Rossi, Parma, Teatro Ducale, 1801)
• I Manli ( I Manlii ) (opera seria in two acts, libretto by Antonio Sografi , Milan, Teatro alla Scala, December 26, 1801)
• La selvaggia nel Messico (dramma serio per musica in two acts, libretto by Michelangelo Prunetti, Bologna, Teatro Comunale , September 1, 1803)
• Fedra ossia Il ritorno di Teseo (opera seria in three acts, libretto by Michelangelo Prunetti, Rome, Teatro Argentina, December 26, 1803)
• Il geloso sincerato (farsa in two acts, libretto by Giambattista Lorenzi , Naples, Teatro Nuovo, spring 1804)
• Peribea e Telamone (opera seria in two acts, libretto by Domenico Chelli, Naples, Teatro San Carlo , May 30, 1804)
• Gli incostanti nemici delle donne (commedia in two acts, Naples, Teatro Nuovo, autumn 1804)
• Le nozze inaspettate (opera buffa, Naples, Teatro Nuovo, autumn 1805)
• Abenamet e Zoraide (opera seria in two acts, libretto by Luigi Romanelli, Milan, Teatro alla Scala, December 26, 1805 with Giuseppe Siboni )
• Traiano in Dacia (opera seria in two acts, libretto by Michelangelo Prunetti, Rome, Teatro Argentina , February 3 or 7, 1807)
• Le due gemelle (farsa in one act, Rome, Teatro Valle, January 7, 1808)
• Coriolano ossia L'assedio di Roma (opera seria in two acts, libretto by Luigi Romanelli, Milan, Teatro alla Scala , December 26, 1808 with Isabella Colbran and Giovanni Battista Velluti )
• Dario Istaspe (opera seria in two acts, libretto by Jacopo Durandi , Turin, Théâtre Impérial / Teatro Regio di Torino , January 20, 1810 with Adelaide Malanotte and Andrea Nozzari )
• Angelica e Medoro ossia L'Orlando (opera seria in two acts, libretto by Gaetano Sertor after Pietro Metastasio, Turin, Théâtre Impérial / Teatro Regio di Torino, December 26, 1810 with Giovanni Battista Velluti )
• Abradate e Dircea (opera seria in two acts, libretto by Luigi Romanelli, Milan, Teatro alla Scala, January 29, 1811)
• Quinto Fabio ( Quinto Fabio Rutiliano ) (opera seria in two acts, libretto by Giuseppe Rossi, Vienna, Theater am Kärntnertor , April 24, 1811)
• La casa dell'astrologo (dramma giocoso in two acts, libretto by Luigi Romanelli, Milan, Teatro alla Scala, August 17, 1811)
• Le nozze dei Morlacchi ( I Morlacchi ) (opera seria in two acts, Vienna, Theater am Kärntnertor, 1811)
• La feudataria, ossia Il podestà ridicolo (dramma giocoso in two acts, Piacenza, Teatro Nuovo, January 18, 1812)
• Mitridate (opera seria in three acts, libretto by Apostolo Zeno, Milan, Teatro alla Scala, 1812)
• Carlo Magno ( Witikindo ) (opera seria in two acts, libretto by Antonio Peracchi, Piacenza Teatro Nuovo, February 1813)
• Il Tamerlano (opera seria in two acts, libretto by Filippo Tarducci , Rome, Teatro Valle, autumn 1813)
• L'ira di Achille (dramma musicale serio in two acts, libretto by Felice Romani , Milan, Teatro alla Scala, December 26, 1814)
• Adolfo (opera seria in two acts, libretto by Antonio Peracchi, Venice, Teatro San Benedetto, 23 June 1815)
• Balduino duca di Spoleti (opera seria in two acts, libretto by Antonio Peracchi, Venice, Teatro Vendramin di San Luca, spring 1816)
• Giulio Cesare nelle Gallie (opera seria in two acts, libretto by Michelangelo Prunetti, Rome, Teatro Argentina, January 17, 1819)
• La conquista di Granata (melodramma serio in two acts, libretto by Luigi Romanelli, Venice, Teatro La Fenice, December 26, 1820) with Giuditta Pasta and Gaetano Crivelli
• L'eroe di Lancastro (opera seria in two acts, libretto by Gaetano Rossi , Turin, Teatro Regio di Torino, February 3, 1821)
• Annibale in Bitinia (dramma eroico in two acts, libretto by Luigi Prividali, Padova, Teatro Nuovo, June 13, 1821)
• Aspasia e Agide (opera seria in three acts, libretto by Luigi Romanelli, Milan, Teatro alla Scala, May 8, 1824 with Giovanni Battista Verger)
• Amina o L'innocenza perseguitata (Libretto by Felice Romani, Milan, Teatro alla Scala, 1824)
• Teuzzone ( Il Teuzzone ) (opera seria in two acts, libretto by Apostolo Zeno, Turin, Teatro Regio di Torino, January 22, 1825 directed by Giovanni Battista Polledro with Nicola Tacchinardi)
• Ilda d'Avenel ossia La Dama bianca (opera seria in two acts, libretto by Gaetano Rossi, Bergamo, Teatro Riccardi, August 14, 1828)
• Malek Adel (opera seria in two or three acts by Gaetano Rossi, Verona, Teatro Filodrammatico, February 8, 1830)
• Il trionfo di Manlio (melodramma eroico in two acts, Piacenza, Teatro Municipale, January 22, 1833)
• Teodosia (opera seria, libretto by GM Marini, Naples, Teatro San Carlo, autumn 1840)

literature

• Niccolini (Joseph). In François-Joseph Fétis,Biography universelle des musiciens et bibliographie générale de la musique, vol. 6 . Firmin-Didot, Paris 1866-1868, pp. 310-311
• Andrea Lanza: Nicolini, Giuseppe. In: New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians . 2001
• G. Nicolini: Gratias agimus Tibi, dal Gloria della Missa Brevis in Re per 3 voci e orchestra, a cura di Mario G. Genesi. PMEdiz., Piacenza 2008, p. 10.
• Mario Genesi: La cantata italiana mitologico-occasionale da palazzo e l'oratorio biblico per soli, coro ed orchestra (1800–1830) nelle frequentazioni di due compositori piacentini: l'operista Giuseppe Nicolini e il conte Daniele Nicelli ; in “Archivio Storico per le Province Parmensi”, Parma, Tip. Riunite Donati, Vol. 64 °, 2013, pp. 323-383.
• G. Nicolini: Concerto per violino e orchestra in re maggiore, edizione moderna a cura di Luca Brignole, prima esecuzione: Piacenza, December 21, 2014

Discography

• G. Nicolini: L'amor Mognaio. Performers: Patrizia Zanardi, Francesca Lansa, Davide Rocca, Manuel Pierattelli, Lee Won Jun, Matteo Mazzoli, Fabrizio Dorsi. Recorded at the Teatro Municipale di Piacenza. World premiere recordings, 2007
• G. Nicolini: Il geloso sincerato. Performers: Tanabe Orie, Roberta Mameli, Francesca Cassinari, Gian Luca Pasolini, Valentino Salvini, Mauro Bonfanti, Sang Ouk Park, Fabrizio Dorsi. Recorded at the Teatro Municipale di Piacenza. World premiere recordings, 2006
• G. Nicolini: Pagine scelte dalla "Cantata di Dafni e Fille" (together with Johann Simon Mayr : Pagine scelte dall'opera inaugurale "Zamori ossia l'Eroe delle Indie" ). Performers: Emanuela Moreschi, soprano; Mario Genesi, piano. World premiere recordings, 2003, "per il Bicentenario di edificazione del Teatro Municipale di Piacenza."