Luigi Madonis

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Luigi Madonis (* around 1690 in Venice , † around 1770 in Saint Petersburg ) was an Italian composer and violinist.

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Luigi Madonis came from a widespread Venetian family of musicians and artists, whose degree of relationship cannot always be clarified beyond doubt. Madonis may have been a pupil of Antonio Vivaldi and probably the violinist whom Johann Joachim Quantz heard in Venice in 1726 and praised alongside Vivaldi. At that time he could have played in the orchestra of the S. Angelo Theater, which was under Vivaldi's direction. Luigi Madonis stayed for a few years in Paris, where in May 1729 and August 1730 he performed successfully as a soloist in the Concert spirituel , a concert promoter in whose orchestra he was a member. At the same time he was "maître de musique" in the service of the Ambassador of the Republic of Venice. In 1731 a collection of violin sonatas “XII Sonates à violon seul avec la basse” was published in Paris. Back in Venice he was appointed concertmaster of the court orchestra by Tsarina Anna Iwanovna . In 1738 he published another collection of violin sonatas in Saint Petersburg, the "12 raznych sinfonij, radi skripki e basa", which he dedicated to the tsarina. The dance movements in these sonatas are based in part on Russian and Ukrainian folk songs.

In 1738 and 1739, Madonis took paid leave and stayed in Venice. In 1740 he returned to Russia and took up his service under the new Tsar Ivan VI. on. He married the singer Natal′ja Petrovna. For the coronation of the new Tsarina Elisabeth , Madonis composed several arias for the opera La Clemenza di Tito by Johann Adolph Hasse . Madonis worked in the court orchestra until 1762, after which he was represented on full salary by Domenico Dall'Oglio . From 1767 until his death, he received an annual pension of 1200 rubles.

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  1. ↑ Julie Anne Sadie: Companion to Baroque Music, p.32
  2. ↑ Giacomo Fornari: Entry in the Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani - Volume 67 (2007)
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SURNAME Madonis, Luigi
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian composer and violinist
DATE OF BIRTH around 1690
PLACE OF BIRTH Venice
DATE OF DEATH around 1770
Place of death St. Petersburg