Guido Tacchinardi

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Guido Tacchinardi (1864)

Guido Tacchinardi (born March 10, 1840 in Florence ; † December 6, 1917 there ) was an Italian composer , music theorist and teacher .

Life

Guido Tacchinardi was born the son of the great singer Niccolò Tacchinardi (1772-1859), who ended his career in 1831 and settled in Florence as a singing teacher. His older sister Fanny Tacchinardi , married Persiani (1812–1867) was a successful opera singer. The young musician studied in his hometown with the Italian opera composer Teodulo Mabellini (1817-1897). In 1881 he took a position as a teacher of music theory at the Regio Istituto Musicale di Firenze , today's Conservatorio di Musica "Luigi Cherubini" ; ten years later he was appointed director of the university, succeeding Giovanni Pacini and Luigi Ferdinando Casamorata , where he worked until his death. Tacchinardi's musical estate is kept and administered by the library of the Luigi Cherubini Music Conservatory.

His daughter Giulia Tacchinardi made a successful career as a violinist , his son Alberto also worked as a music theorist and published several works on musical rhythm and acoustics.

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Compositions

Tacchinardi's compositions are only fragmentarily documented and handed down in rare manuscripts and prints. Only a few of his works are available in modern sheet music editions.

  • I conti senza l'oste (like The Bill without the Landlord ), melodramma comico based on a libretto by Enrico Cecioni , performed in the autumn season of 1872 at the Teatro Nuovo in Florence
  • Orchestral works and concerts
For his daughter Giulia Tacchinardi wrote, among other things, a three-movement concerto for violin and orchestra in G minor (1908) as well as the two series of twelve (1902) and a further six miniatures for violin and piano (1913), which are still used by violinists today enjoy a certain popularity and distribution.
Dodici Miniature per violino e pianoforte (1902); dedicated to his daughter Giulia (new edition 2017)
Dodici fughe per pianoforte a 2, 3, 4 e 6 parti reali (1890)
(These and some other musical compositions by Tacchinardi are to be understood as practical examples of his theoretical studies.)

Fonts

As a theorist, Tacchinardi published numerous studies on the topics of harmony and counterpoint , which were also used as training material at the Istituto Musicale .

  • Studio sulla interpretazione della musica (1902)
  • Manuale pratico di grammatica musicale (compilato secondo il programma della scuola di elementi del R [eal] Istituto Musicale Cherubini di Firenze) (1912), a "musical grammar"
  • Metodo per lo studio del contrappunto e fuga (counterpoint theory; no year)
  • Metodo per lo studio dell'armonia (theory of harmony; 1889)
  • Studienwerke:
Cinquanta piccoli bassi progressivi per lo studio elementare della disposizione a quattro parti (1887)
Saggi di basso numerato e di contrappunto da servire di studio preparatorio alla interpretazione della musica di stile legato (n.d.)
(Tacchinardi's practical exercises for counterpoint and figured bass were reprinted well into the 1930s.)

Editing

  • Anticaglie musicali italiane
  • Ventiquattro antiche arie italiane
(Collections of vocal and instrumental music by Italian composers from the 16th to 18th centuries, which Tacchinardi collected and reconstructed; preserved as manuscripts in the composer's estate in the library of the “Luigi Cherubini” Music Conservatory in Florence.)

Requiem for Rossini

Among Tacchinardi's vocal works there is a “ Requiem a Rossini” for eight-part mixed a cappella choir , which is dated March 12, 1869 and consequently originated at the same time as the Messa per Rossini organized by Giuseppe Verdi , for which there were a dozen more or less wanted to persuade well-known Italian composers to compose a composition that should have been performed in Bologna on November 13, 1869 - the first anniversary of Rossini's death . However, that funeral mass was forgotten until it was rediscovered in the 1970s and was premiered on September 11, 1988. The reaction of the young Florentine musician Tacchinardi (his Requiem a Rossini was completed two days after his 29th birthday) to the death of the most important and best-known composer of his time could have been inspired by his composition teacher Teodulo Mabellini or even given as a composition task. Mabellini was one of twelve composers invited by Verdi to collaborate at the Messa per Rossini ; from him comes the Communio “Lux aeterna” of the Messa per Rossini , a trio for three male solo voices.

The first printed edition of Tacchinardi's Requiem a Rossini was published by Dohr in 2014 .

“Four months after Rossini's death, the then 29-year-old Italian composer Guido Tacchinardi completed his Requiem a Rossini . The beginning of the work seems extremely trivial, but a real fabric of the eight voices quickly unfolds, in which the text, shortened to a minimum, is masterfully implemented musically. An exciting a cappella new discovery that can be used very well in church services and concerts! "

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Manuel Braun in Church Music in the Diocese of Limburg , 2/2015 (November), p. 58, see [1] .

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personal data
SURNAME Tacchinardi, Guido
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian music theorist and composer
DATE OF BIRTH March 10, 1840
PLACE OF BIRTH Florence
DATE OF DEATH December 6, 1917
Place of death Florence