Ignazio Fiorillo

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Ignazio Fiorillo.

Ignatio Fiorillo (born May 11, 1715 in Naples ; † June 6-12, 1787 in Kassel) was an Italian opera composer , representative of the so-called Neapolitan School , and court conductor in Braunschweig and Kassel .

Life

Ignatio Fiorillo received his education at one of the four conservatories in Naples. According to the music biographers Ernst Ludwig Gerber (1812) and François-Joseph Fétis (1862), he was a student of Leonardo Leo and Francesco Durante , although there is currently no evidence. With L'Egeste premiered his first opera in Trieste in 1733, 1736 followed in Venice, the dramma per musica Mandane . Six further premieres followed in Milan, Venice and Padua by 1745. From 1747 he traveled with the ballet and pantomime troupe of Filippo Nicolini through Europe, with stops in Prague, Leipzig, Dresden, Hamburg and 1749 in Braunschweig. In the following year Fioirillo was hired as court conductor in Braunschweig. In 1753 his third son Federigo Fiorillo was born there. Ignatio Fiorillo left Braunschweig in 1762 and was again court conductor at the court of Landgrave Friedrich II in Kassel. In Kassel, Fiorillo was responsible for the court opera and for the Catholic court church music. After the opera orchestra and church music were dissolved, the composer lived in seclusion from 1780 until his death in June 1787 in Fritzlar.

According to David August von Apell , his music is characterized by a melody of dramatic expressiveness in good moments, but is generally quite superficial.

Ignatio Fiorillo was married to Petronilla Cosimi. The art historian Johann Dominik Fiorillo (1748–1821) and the composer and musician Federigo Fiorillo (1753–1823) were her sons.

Works

Operas

  • L'Egeste (Carlo Pagani Cesa), melodramma per musica (1733 Trieste)
  • Mandane ( Bartolomeo Vitturi ), dramma per musica (1736 Venice)
  • Partenope nell'Adria (Nicolò Bastiano Biancardi called Domenico Lalli ), Serenata (1738 Venice)
  • L'Artimene (Claudio Nicola Conte Stampa), dramma per musica (1739 Milan)
  • Il vincitor di se stesso (Conte Antonio Zaniboni ), dramma per musica (1741 Venice)
  • Vologeso ( Apostolo Zeno ), dramma per musica (1742 Padua)
  • L'Angelica ( Pietro Metastasio ), dramma pastorale (1744 Padua; 1751 Wolfenbüttel, as Serenata)
  • L'olimpiade (Pietro Metastasio), dramma per musica (1745 Venice; 1749 and 1750 Braunschweig)
  • Astiage rè de 'Medi ( Matteo Noris , after Apollonio Apolloni), dramma per musica (1749 Braunschweig)
  • Adriano in Siria (Pietro Metastasio), dramma per musica (1750 Braunschweig)
  • Demofoonte (Pietro Metastasio), dramma per musica (1750 and 1751 Braunschweig)
  • La Didone abbandonata (Pietro Metastasio), dramma per musica (1751 Braunschweig)
  • Siface (Pietro Metastasio), dramma per musica (1752 Braunschweig)
  • Alessandro nell'Indie (Pietro Metastasio), dramma per musica (1752 Braunschweig)
  • Il Ciro riconosciuto (Pietro Metastasio), dramma per musica (1753 Braunschweig); probably adaptation of Astiage, ré di Medi
  • Demetrio (Pietro Metastasio), dramma per musica (1753 Braunschweig)
  • Endimione (Pietro Metastasio), Serenata (1754 Braunschweig)
  • Lucio Vero (Apostolo Zeno), dramma per musica (1756 Braunschweig); Editing of Vologeso
  • Nitteti (Pietro Metastasio), dramma per musica (1758 Braunschweig)
  • L'Ifigenia (librettist unknown); dramma per musica (1759 Braunschweig); Pasticcio with music by Fiorillo, Baldassare Galuppi and unnamed composers
  • Ipermestra (Pietro Metastasio), dramma per musica (1759 Braunschweig)
  • Il Creso (Giuseppe Gioacchino Pizzi), dramma per musica (1760 Braunschweig); Pasticcio with music by Fiorillo, Domenico Fischietti , Davide Perez and Gian Francesco de Majo
  • Diana ed Endimione (Pietro Metastasio), Pastorale; Editing of Endimione
  • Artaserse (Pietro Metastasio), dramma per musica (1765 Kassel)
  • Andromeda ( Vittorio Amedeo Cigna-Santi ), dramma per musica (1770 and 1771 Kassel)

Intermezzi

  • L'amante ingannatore (librettist unknown), intermezzo (1747 Prague, 1748 Leipzig, around 1750 Braunschweig)
  • Li Birbi (Antonio Zanetti), intermezzo (1748 Prague, Leipzig and Hamburg, 1749 Braunschweig)
  • Il finto pazzo (librettist unknown), intermezzo (1748 Prague and Leipzig)
  • Con la burla da dovero (librettist unknown), intermezzo (1748 Prague? Hamburg?)
  • Il vecchio pazzo in amore (librettist unknown), intermezzo (1748 Hamburg)
  • Monsieur di Porsugnacco (librettist unknown), intermezzo (1749 or later Braunschweig)

Oratorios

literature

Web links

Commons : Ignazio Fiorillo  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. Thomas Appel: The descendants of the Italian composer Ignazio Fiorillo (1715 to 1787) in Germany. In: Journal for Low German Family Studies , Issue 1/1 2006, pp. 3–11.
  2. ^ Fiorillo (family) in: Die Musik in Geschichte und Gegenwart , p. 22765 (cf. MGG vol. 4, p. 258 ff.) Bärenreiter-Verlag 1986 ( digital library volume 60).
  3. Achim Hölter: Johann Dominik Fiorillo. Remarks about man and the traces of his work. In: A. Middeldorf Kosegarten (Ed.): Johann Dominicus Fiorillo. Art history and the romantic movement around 1800 . Göttingen 1997, p. 13f.