Luigi Sartori
Luigi Sartori (born May 19, 1817 in Spresiano , † February 22, 1844 in Dresden ) was an Italian pianist, composer and priest.
Life
He received his first musical training from his father Pietro Sartori and at the seminar in Treviso . While studying theology at the University of Padua , he began to study counterpoint . A first encounter with Franz Liszt probably took place in Venice in 1838 . He was ordained a priest in April 1840 . After studying theology, he devoted himself entirely to the piano and became one of the most successful pianists in the Kingdom of Lombardy-Veneto .
From 1841 he was employed as a private tutor in a noble family in Nice , where he met the famous piano virtuoso Sigismund Thalberg . Two European tours between 1841 and 1843 took him to Paris , where he met Franz Liszt, among others. He then traveled to Munich , where he met the conductor Johann Kaspar Aiblinger and was invited by the Bavarian king to his residence. Further concert tours took him to Holland , Belgium and Trieste . In 1843 he went to Vienna, where his health deteriorated. Here he was valued by the Metternichs and was nicknamed "the Italian Liszt". He had great affinities with Liszt, so that he became a pioneer of modern instrumental art in Italy. His virtuosity prevailed against the usual composition practice and led to compositions in the romantic style.
In January 1844 he went to Dresden with letters of recommendation , where his musical skills were admired and where he met Franz Liszt for the last time. A big concert in the " Hôtel de Pologne " in Dresden, which was planned for February 17, 1844, could no longer take place due to Luigi Sartori's illness. He died of tuberculosis in Dresden on February 22, 1844 and was buried in the Old Catholic Cemetery in Dresden, where his grave still exists today. In his home town of Treviso, the pianist and composer Sartori was commemorated on May 10, 1844 in a solemn commemoration.
Honors
Only a few works of his compositions have survived that were published by Ricordi in Milan. On August 7, 1994, on the occasion of the 250th anniversary of Luigi Sartori's death, a concert with the choir “Luigi Sartori” from Spresiano took place in the Catholic Court Church in Dresden, on which his composition “Qui tollis” (fragment from a “Gloria”) was performed.
literature
- Giuliano Simionato: Luigi Sartori, pianista trevigiano sulla scia di Liszt (Luigi Sartori - a pianist from Treviso in the style of Franz Liszt), Treviso, Edizioni Zoppelli, 1981 (ital.)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Giovanni Masutto, I maestri di musica italiani del secolo xix: notizie biografiche (The Italian Masters of Music of the 19th Century), G. Cecchini, 1834 (Italian) Online (accessed October 9, 2019)
- ↑ Program for the concert with the “Luigi Sartori” choir from Spresiano on August 7, 1994 in the Catholic Court Church in Dresden on the occasion of the 250th anniversary of the death of the Italian pianist and composer Luigi Sartori, Associazione Corale Luige Sartori, Spresiano.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Sartori, Luigi |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Italian pianist, composer and priest |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 19, 1817 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Spresiano |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 22, 1844 |
| Place of death | Dresden |