Giuseppe Tricarico

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Giuseppe Tricarico (born June 25, 1623 in Gallipoli , † November 14, 1697 ibid) was an Italian composer of the Baroque.

Life

Giuseppe Tricarico was trained in Naples. Between 1640 and 1654 he lived in Rome , where he published several works and wrote a treatise on music, some of which has been lost. In 1654 he moved to Ferrara with Cardinal Giovanni Battista Spada , of whom he was Kapellmeister, and became Kapellmeister of the "Accademia dello Spirito Santo" there, but at the same time remained in the service of the Cardinal. In the same year, his first opera, "L'Endimione", was performed in Ferrara. In 1657 he traveled to Vienna , accompanied by his brother, the singer Antonio Tricarico , where he held the post of conductor of the newly founded court orchestra of Empress Eleonara II . He only stayed in their service until 1662, when Pietro Andrea Ziani took his position. The reasons for the change are no longer apparent today. Tricarico returned to his hometown, where he devoted himself exclusively to teaching until his death.

His work includes operas, oratorios, church music and secular vocal works, some of which are dedicated to Emperor Leopold I.

Works (selection)

Operas
  • L'Endimione (A. Passarelli), (Ferrara, 1655)
  • La Virtù guerriera (A. Aureli), (Vienna, 1659)
  • L'Almonte (A. Draghi), (Vienna, 1661)
  • La generosità d'Alessandro (F. Sbarra), (Vienna, 1662)
  • L'Endimiro creduto Uranio (P. Russo), (Naples, 1670)
Oratorios and Sepolcri
  • La gara della Misericordia e Giustizia di Dio (C. Scorano), (Vienna, 1661)
  • La fede trionfante (Draghi), (Vienna, 1662) Music lost
  • Adamo ed Eva, (Vienna, 1662)
Sacred vocal music
  • Concentus ecclesiastici, liber quartus, for 2–4 voices (Rome, 1649)
  • Crucifixus, (3 voices), in Athanasius Kircher : "Musurgia universalis" (Rome, 1650)
  • 9 motets
  • An 8-part mass
Profane vocal music
  • 4 madrigals, (3 voices)
  • 5 cantatas for 1–2 voices and bc
  • Several arias

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.univie.ac.at/Geschichte/aktuelles/akt_gam_ex.html
personal data
SURNAME Tricarico, Giuseppe
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian Baroque composer
DATE OF BIRTH June 25, 1623
PLACE OF BIRTH Gallipoli
DATE OF DEATH November 14, 1697
Place of death Gallipoli