Giuseppe Galloni (musician)

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Giuseppe Galloni (also: Giuseppo Galloni ; * in the 17th century in Florence ; † 1711 or later) was an Italian violinist , electoral and royal concertmaster in Hanover and “imperial court and chamber musician” in Vienna .

Life

Giuseppe Galloni was temporarily in the service of the Serenissimo of Modena as a virtuoso in the 17th century .

From 1680 to March 1685 a Gioseffo Galloni was employed in Vienna for the first time.

At the beginning of the 21st century it still seemed unclear whether this Giuseppe Galloni was the one whom the Duke and future Elector of Braunschweig-Lüneburg , Ernst August von Braunschweig-Calenberg , recruited for his own court chapel during one of his visits to Venice in 1886 . But after the court Kapellmeister in Modena, Antonio Giannettini , accepted at least the temporary “loan” of the tenor Antonio Borosini and the violinist Galloni on October 5, 1688 , the Elector Hanoverian court conductor Agostino Steffani was able to do sobegin rehearsals for the opera Enrico Leone (translated: " Heinrich the Lion ") with two outstanding Italian musicians in the royal seat of Hanover . After the same time the opening of the world premiere Castle Opera House was imminent in the presence of the highest nobility heads electress was Sophia of Hanover her court poet and secretary, the polymath Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz , already on 2 January 1689 report that the memory of Henry the Lion of beautiful voices would be revived; the Galloni was supposed to accompany the premiere with his violin.

According to older representations of Hanover Elector Ernst August to the violinist Galloni have committed in 1691 in Venice for Hannover, possibly to substitute 1691-1695 to the Hannover Castle Opera House the well at the courtyard of Osnabrück acting concertmaster Jean Baptiste Farinelli responsible. The exact clarification has proven to be difficult so far, since on the one hand no concrete Hanover chamber accounts with the name Gallonis were found until the end of the 20th century, although on the other hand an invoice with the date November 23 and the name Galloni was documented in Hanover.

Around 1695 Galloni went to Vienna, where he is said to have appeared as the "Imperial Court and Chamber Musician jubilatus " and was employed until October 1, 1711, but was mistaken for a different person by the historian Ludwig von Köchel as Gioseffo Galloni .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b c d Wulf Konold (Ges.-Red.), Klaus-Jürgen Etzold (co-author): Galloni, Giuseppo , in this .: The Lower Saxony State Orchestra Hanover 1636 to 1986 , ed. from the Lower Saxony State Orchestra Hannover GmbH, Hanover: Schlütersche Verlagsgesellschaft, 1986, ISBN 3-87706-041-2 , p. 175 etc. ( limited preview in Google Book search).
  2. ↑ a b c Church Music Yearbook , Volume 65, 1982, ISSN  0075-6199 , p. 81 ( limited preview in the Google book search).
  3. ↑ Francesco Saverio Quadrio: Della storia, e della ragione d'ogni poesia del volume terzo parte seconda ... (in Italian), Milano: Francesco Agnelli, 1744, p. 530 ( digitized in the Google book search)
  4. ^ Colin Timms : Polymath of the baroque. Agostino Steffani and his music (in English), Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2003, ISBN 0-19-515473-8 , p. 363, etc. ( limited preview in Google Book search)
  5. ^ A b T. Trautwein: monthly books for music history , volumes 34–36, Berlin, 1903; P. 42, 149 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
personal data
SURNAME Galloni, Giuseppe
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Galloni, Giuseppo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian violinist and concert master
DATE OF BIRTH 17th century
PLACE OF BIRTH Florence
DATE OF DEATH after 1711