Lelio Colista

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Lelio Colista (born January 13, 1629 in Rome ; † October 13, 1680 ibid) was an Italian composer , lutenist and guitarist .

Life

Supported by his father, who worked as a librarian at the papal library , Colista received an excellent education at an early age, probably at the Seminario Romano . In Rome he studied together with Gaspar Sanz . He mastered several instruments, especially the lute and the theorbo . At the age of thirty he already held the lucrative post of custode delle pitture at the papal chapel. He worked with Bernardo Pasquini and Alessandro Stradella , among others . In the wake of his patron Cardinal Flavio Chigi , he appeared in Paris in 1664 at the court of Louis XIV . In the last twenty years of his life he was a sought-after composer and teacher in Rome.

As a composer, he mainly wrote instrumental music, but no prints were made during his lifetime. Colista's influence on the musicians staying in Rome during his time was nevertheless great. Arcangelo Corelli , who was part of Colista's ensemble at a young age, gratefully mentions the “più professori musici di Roma” , to which Colista belonged , in the preface to his op . Henry Purcell recognized his contrapuntal abilities in 1694 and the guitarist Gaspar Sanz called him in 1674 the "Orpheus of her time". The trio sonatas by Corelli and Purcell are influenced by Colista, who in Rome was the first to write “da chiesa” sonatas for two violins and basso continuo , which he himself called a symphony .

Work (selection)

  • 5 cantatas for 1–3 voices, 2 violins and B. c.
  • 3 arias for soprano and B. c.
  • 24 “Simfonie” à tre
  • 3 Sonata da Camera à tre
  • 5 Sonata for violin, bass instrument and B. c.
  • 6 "Symphony" for several plucked instruments (lute, theorbo, guitar and harpsichord)
  • 3 sonatas, possibly trio sonatas, only the bass part is preserved
  • 3 sonata for organ
  • 2 oratorios (performed in Rome in 1661 and 1667, libretto and music lost)
  • Passacaille dite Mariona (around 1675) for guitar, first edited by Jean Baptiste de Castillion (1680–1753) and, as Mariona, also an instrumental piece in 1674 with the guitarist Gaspar Sanz.

Web links

literature

  • Helene Wessely: " Lelio Colista, a Roman master before Corelli; life and environment. ", Verlag H. Böhlaus Nachf., Commission publisher of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, 1961.
  • Peter Allsop in The Italian Sonata, From Its Origins Until Corelli ISBN 0198162294 (en).
  • James Tyler: A guide to playing the baroque guitar. Indiana University Press, Bloomington / Indianapolis 2011, ISBN 978-0-253-22289-3 , pp. 65-69.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Jerry Willard (Ed.): The complete works of Gaspar Sanz. 2 volumes, Amsco Publications, New York 2006 (translation of the original manuscript by Marko Miletich), ISBN 978-082561-695-2 , volume 1, p. 21.
  2. ↑ Jerry Willard (Ed.): The complete works of Gaspar Sanz. 2 volumes, Amsco Publications, New York 2006 (translation of the original manuscript by Marko Miletich), ISBN 978-082561-695-2 , Volume 1, pp. 51 ( Mariona ) and 133-136 ( Marionas ).
personal data
SURNAME Colista, Lelio
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian composer and lutenist
DATE OF BIRTH January 13, 1629
PLACE OF BIRTH Rome
DATE OF DEATH October 13, 1680
Place of death Rome