Luigi Gatti (composer)
Luigi Gatti (born June 11, 1740 in Lazise , † March 1, 1817 in Salzburg ) was an Italian classical composer and Catholic priest .
Life
Luigi Gatti was born in 1740 in Lazise, the son of the organist Francesco della Gatto. He received his education in Mantua , where he was ordained a priest and tenor at the Church of Santa Barbara. The Kapellmeister Giovanni Battista Pattoni (1713–1773) mentioned him in 1768 as a "reliable tenor, ... good organist and composer". His first opera, Alessandro nell'Indie , was also performed in Mantua. In 1770 Gatti met the Mozart family on their first trip to Italy and copied one of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's masses.
Since the death of Hofkapellmeister Giuseppe Lolli (1701–1778), Prince Archbishop Hieronymus Graf Colloredo (1732–1812 ) looked for a successor in all Italian cities as well as in Vienna , Prague and Königgrätz , and because Ferdinando Bertoni (1725–1813) was not available , became Luigi Gatti (last) prince-archbishop Hofkapellmeister in Salzburg in 1783 (on the recommendation of Anton Theodor von Colloredo-Waldsee-Mels , Archbishop of Olmütz ) . The result was a certain dissatisfaction with Leopold Mozart , whose application for this position had been rejected. Between 1801 and 1803, Gatti helped Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's sister Nannerl in the search for previously unknown works by Mozart. In this context he corresponded several times with the Breitkopf & Härtel publishing house until 1804 .
It was quite common at the time to underlay parts of popular operas with a sacred text, which in the 18th century was not considered offensive and was understood more as an appreciation of the music. Gatti put together his creation mass by reworking parts of Joseph Haydn's oratorio The Creation .
Only a few works were published during Gatti's lifetime, although numerous manuscripts and copies were available in the Salzburg archives.
Luigi Gatti died on March 1, 1817 and was buried in the Sebastian Cemetery, Salzburg.
Works (selection)
- Operas
- Alessandro nell'Indie (libretto, Pietro Metastasio , 1768, Mantua)
- Nitteti (Libretto Pietro Metastasio, 1773, Mantua)
- Armida (Libretto Giovanni De Gamerra , 1775, Mantua)
- L'olimpiade (libretto, Pietro Metastasio, 1775, Salzburg)
- Antigono (libretto, Pietro Metastasio, 1781, Milan)
- Demofoonte (libretto, Pietro Metastasio, 1787, Mantua)
- Other vocal works
- Virgilio e Manto (Cantata, 1769, Mantua)
- Il certame (cantata, 1771, Mantua)
- Cantata per il matrimonio dell'Arciduca Ferdinando (1775, Mantua)
- Cantata in lode del Principe Arcivescovo di Olomouc (1778, Mantua)
- L'isola disabitata (cantata, text by Pietro Metastasio, 1783, Salzburg)
- Cantata per il glorioso anniversario del ingresso in Salisburgo di l'Arcidurca Ferdinando (around 1804, Salzburg)
- Cantata per le nozze dell'imperatore Francesco I con Luigia d'Este (1808)
- Inno per una voce e pianoforte (with German text, 1812, Salzburg)
- Cantata per il giorno dell'Epifania
- Ah! Se a me fosse concesso (cantata for soprano and orchestra)
- Christ condemns per 4 voci (Salzburg)
- Cantata tedesca per Hyeronimus Colloredo
- Il sacrificio ad amore (cantata)
- Oratorios
- La madre dei Maccabei (1775, Mantua)
- La morte d'Abel (1778, Salzburg)
- Il martirio dei Santissimi Nazario e Celso (Brescia, 1780)
- Il voto di Jefte (1794, in collaboration with Luigi Caruso )
- Abel's death (1806, Salzburg, new setting of La morte d'Abel )
- Il tronfo di Gedeone
- Church music
- 20 fairs
- requiem
- 3 litanies
- 18 vespers
- 48 offers
- 2 Regina Coeli
- 2 miserere
- 2 Te Deum
- Instrumental music
- Concerto per clavicembalo, fagotto e violino
- Concerto per clavicembalo e orchestra
- 2 symphonies
- Overture in D major
- Concerto per violino, viola, violoncello, basso, 2 oboi, 2 corni e orchestra
- Serenata per 2 violini, oboe, 2 corni, fagotto e archi (1792, Salzburg)
- Adagio per oboe e orchestra
- Marcia per flauto e archi
- 2 Septuor concertante per oboe e archi
- Sestetto
- Quintetto per oboe e archi
- Quartetto per oboe e archi
- Quartetto per oboe, violino, viola e basso continuo (1806)
- Trio per clarinetto, viola e violoncello
- Trio per 2 flauti e basso
- Divertimento per 2 flauti e basso
- Divertimento per violino e cello e basso
- Divertimento per violino, corno inglese e clavicembalo
- Adagio per organo e violoncello
- 7 sonatas for violin and viola
- Sonata for flute and viola
- Sonata for harpsichord and cello
- Sonata terza for flute / violin, cello and harpsichord
- Ballet music
- Germanico in Germania (1777, Milan)
- Il ratto delle Sabine (1780, Mantua)
- La grotta di Merlino (1808, Salzburg)
literature
- Constantin von Wurzbach : Gatti, Ludwig . In: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich . 5th part. Typogr.-literar.-artist publishing house. Establishment (L. C. Zamarski & C. Dittmarsch.), Vienna 1859, p. 104 ( digitized version ).
- Monika Gehmacher: Luigi Gatti, his life and his oratorios. With a thematic catalog of the entire oeuvre . Dissertation. University of Vienna, Vienna 1959.
- Thomas Hochradner: Final stop in Salzburg - via Luigi Gatti . In: Gernot Gruber , Joachim Brügge (Hrsg.): History of music as a history of understanding. Festschrift for Gernot Gruber on his 65th birthday . Schneider, Tutzing 2004, ISBN 3-7952-1173-5 , pp. 25-38.
Web links
- Works by and about Luigi Gatti in the catalog of the German National Library
- Search for operas by Luigi Gatti (composer) (search term in the Autore field : "Gatti Luigi") in the Corago information system of the University of Bologna
Individual evidence
- ^ Cliff Eisen: New Mozart documents. A supplement to O. E. Deutsch's documentary biography . First edition. Stanford University Press, Stanford (CA) 1991, ISBN 0-8047-1955-1 , p. 27. - Text online .
- ↑ Luigi Gatti. Creation Mass in A based on Joseph Haydn . In: carus-verlag.com , accessed on August 4, 2012.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Gatti, Luigi |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Gatti, Ludwig |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | composer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 11, 1740 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Lazise |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 1, 1817 |
| Place of death | Salzburg |