Grazio Braccioli

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Grazio Braccioli (1682 in Ferrara - July 26, 1752 there ) was an Italian librettist .

Life

Braccioli was a lawyer and doctor of law in his main profession. He lived mostly in Ferrara. He wrote his first opera libretto Crisippo in 1710 for the composer Floriano Arresti . Then he stayed until 1715 in Venice, where he served as a kind of home-librettist for the time of Antonio Vivaldi performed Teatro Sant'Angelo wrote a total of nine other opera librettos. His best-known work is the Orlando furioso based on the epic The mad Roland by Ludovico Ariosto . It was initially set to music by Giovanni Alberto Ristori in 1713 and revised by Vivaldi the following year. In 1727 Vivaldi created a new version of this opera with the title Orlando . Various pasticcio versions were also created. Vivaldi himself also set his libretto Orlando finto pazzo to music in 1714 .

After his return to Ferrara, Braccioli did not write any further opera libretti, but worked in other literary fields. He was in Ferrara under the pseudonym "Nigello Preteo" member of the local branch of the Accademia dell'Arcadia .

In his libretti he used episodes from the epic works of Ariosto, Matteo Maria Boiardo and Torquato Tasso . They are characterized by imagination and ingenuity and, despite the reform efforts of the time, still retain some characteristics of the respective template.

Works

  • Crisippo - Floriano Arresti , WP on May 10, 1710 in the Teatro a S. Stefano in Ferrara; on November 3, 1710 at the Teatro Angelelli in Bologna
  • Armida in Damasco - Giacomo Rampini , UA on October 17, 1711 in the Teatro Sant'Angelo in Venice
  • La costanza in cimento con la crudeltà - Floriano Arresti, WP on December 29, 1711 at the Teatro Sant'Angelo in Venice
  • Arsinoe vendicata - Giovanni Maria Ruggieri , UA on February 2, 1712 in the Teatro Sant'Angelo in Venice
  • La gloria trionfante d'amore - Giacomo Rampini, premiered on November 22nd, 1712 in the Teatro Sant'Angelo in Venice
  • Calfurnia - Johann David Heinichen , premier around February 7, 1713 in the Teatro Sant'Angelo in Venice; 1716 as Die Römische Großmuht or Calpurnia in the opera on Gänsemarkt in Hamburg
  • Orlando furioso - Giovanni Alberto Ristori , world premiere on November 9, 1713 in the Teatro Sant'Angelo in Venice
    • revised by Antonio Vivaldi , world premiere around December 26, 1714 in the Teatro Sant'Angelo in Venice
    • Georg Caspar Schürmann ( Pasticcio ), premiered in February 1722 at the Braunschweig Theater
    • Antonio Bioni , world premiere in August / September 1724 at the Teatro Sporck in Kuks; further performances in 1724 in Prague and 1735 in Brno (pasticcio)
    • Orazio Pollarolo , UA Carnival 1725 in the Teatro Arciducale in Mantua
    • Antonio Vivaldi, UA on November 15, 1727 as Orlando in the Teatro Sant'Angelo in Venice
    • several other pasticcio versions
  • Rodomonte sdegnato - Michelangelo Gasparini , UA on January 20, 1714 in the Teatro Sant'Angelo in Venice
  • Orlando finto pazzo - Antonio Vivaldi, UA around November 11, 1714 in the Teatro Sant'Angelo in Venice
  • Alessandro fra le Amazoni - Fortunato Chelleri , WP on October 27, 1715 in the Teatro Sant'Angelo in Venice

Digital copies

  1. ↑ Floriano Arresti: Crisippo. Libretto (Italian), Ferrara 1710. Digital copy from the Biblioteca Nazionale Braidense
  2. ^ Giacomo Rampini: Armida in Damasco. Libretto (Italian), Venice 1711. Digital copy from the Biblioteca Nazionale Braidense
  3. ↑ Floriano Arresti: La costanza in cimento con la crudeltà. Libretto (Italian), Venice 1712. Digitized version of the Museo internazionale e biblioteca della musica di Bologna
  4. ^ Giovanni Maria Ruggieri: Arsinoe vendicata. Libretto (Italian), Venice 1712. Digitized version of the Museo internazionale e biblioteca della musica di Bologna
  5. ^ Giacomo Rampini: La gloria trionfante d'amore. Libretto (Italian), Venice 1712. Digitized version of the Museo internazionale e biblioteca della musica di Bologna
  6. ↑ Johann David Heinichen: Calfurnia. Libretto (Italian), Venice 1713. Digitized version of the Museo internazionale e biblioteca della musica di Bologna
  7. ^ Giovanni Alberto Ristori: Orlando furioso. Libretto (Italian), Venice 1713. Digitized version of the Museo internazionale e biblioteca della musica di Bologna
  8. ^ Georg Caspar Schürmann: Orlando furioso. Libretto (Italian / German), Braunschweig 1722. Digitalisat the Berlin State Library
  9. ^ Antonio Bioni: Orlando furioso. Libretto (German), Schweidnitz 1724. Digitized version of the Wolfenbüttel digital library
  10. ↑ Orazio Pollarolo: Orlando furioso. Libretto (Italian), Mantua 1724. Digital copy from the Biblioteca Nazionale Braidense
  11. ^ Antonio Vivaldi: Orlando. Libretto (Italian), Venice 1727. Digitized version of the Museo internazionale e biblioteca della musica di Bologna
  12. ↑ Michelangelo Gasparini: Rodomonte sdegnato. Libretto (Italian), Venice 1714. Digitized version of the Munich digitization center
  13. ^ Antonio Vivaldi: Orlando finto pazzo. Libretto (Italian), Venice 1714. Digitized version of the Museo internazionale e biblioteca della musica di Bologna
  14. ^ Fortunato Chelleri: Alessandro fra le Amazoni. Libretto (Italian), Venice 1715. Digitized version of the Museo internazionale e biblioteca della musica di Bologna

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Michael Talbot : The Vivaldi Compendium. The Boydell Press, Woodbridge 2011, ISBN 978-1-84383-670-4 , pp. 35-36.
  2. ^ A b Michael Talbot :  Braccioli, Grazio. In: Grove Music Online (English; subscription required).
  3. ^ Crisippo (Floriano Arresti) in the Corago information system of the University of Bologna .
  4. ^ Armida in Damasco (Giacomo Rampini) in the Corago information system of the University of Bologna .
  5. ^ La costanza in cimento con la crudeltà (Floriano Arresti) in the Corago information system of the University of Bologna .
  6. ^ Arsinoe vendicata (Giovanni Maria Ruggieri) in the Corago information system of the University of Bologna .
  7. ^ La gloria trionfante d'amore (Giacomo Rampini) in the Corago information system of the University of Bologna .
  8. ↑ Calfurnia (Johann David Heinichen) in Corago information system of the University of Bologna .
  9. ^ Orlando furioso (Giovanni Alberto Ristori) in the Corago information system of the University of Bologna .
  10. ↑ Orlando furioso [riv.] (Antonio Vivaldi) in the Corago information system of the University of Bologna .
  11. ↑ Orlando furioso (Georg Caspar Schürmann) in the Corago information system of the University of Bologna .
  12. ↑ Orlando furioso (Antonio Bioni) in the Corago information system of the University of Bologna .
  13. ↑ Orlando furioso (Orazio Pollarolo) in the Corago information system of the University of Bologna .
  14. ^ Orlando (Antonio Vivaldi) in the Corago information system of the University of Bologna .
  15. ↑ Rodomonte sdegnato (Michelangelo Gasparini) in Corago information system of the University of Bologna .
  16. ↑ Orlando finto pazzo (Antonio Vivaldi) in the Corago information system of the University of Bologna .
  17. ↑ Alessandro fra le Amazoni (Fortunato Chelleri) in Corago information system of the University of Bologna .
personal data
SURNAME Braccioli, Grazio
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian librettist
DATE OF BIRTH 1682
PLACE OF BIRTH Ferrara
DATE OF DEATH July 26, 1752
Place of death Ferrara