Marco Coltellini

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Marco Coltellini ( October 13, 1719 in Livorno - November 1777 in St. Petersburg ) was an Italian librettist , printer and tenor .

Biographical overview

Marco Coltellini was born after Carlo as the second son of Maria Maddalena and Angiolo Spigliantini. Carlo Coltellini later became a Capuchin , while Marco gave up the intention to become a priest after the minor ordinations and married. He became the father of four daughters, all of whom were active in the musical field: Celeste became a well-known mezzo-soprano, Annetta also became a singer, the two youngest sisters Costantina and Rosina devoted themselves to painting.

Coltellini had a wide range of cultural and literary interests, which were reflected in the writing of cantatas and melodramas in the late 1750s. In 1762 he was able to take over the most important printing company in Livorno, "Stamperia all 'Insegna della verità", and began to publish works of the Enlightenment (including by Francesco Algarotti and Cesare Becaria ). By the time Coltellini sold the print shop to his nephew Giovan Tommaso Masi in March 1770, he published 80 titles. Very interested in operas, he made the acquaintance of Metastasio , Gluck , Calzabigi and Durazzo . In 1763 he took up the position of the poet of the imperial theater (poeta dei cesarei teatri) in Vienna and wrote libretti for Gluck, Hasse and Salieri . For Mozart he revised Goldoni's La finta semplice . In his collaboration with Tommaso Traetta for his Ifigenia in Aulide , he prepared Gluck's opera reform . In 1768 he wrote the libretto to Dove è amore è gelosia for Giuseppe Scarlatti on the occasion of the wedding of Johann I , the eldest son of Prince Joseph Adam von Schwarzenberg , at Krumau Castle (today Český Krumlov ) . In the performance he sang the role of Patrizio himself. In 1772 Coltellini was dismissed from the position of the imperial court poet after annoying Maria Theresa with one of his satires . He accepted an offer at the court of the tsars and wrote libretti for Paisiello and Traetta in St. Petersburg . He died so surprisingly that rumors of a poisoning arose, especially since he had also angered the tsarina.

Libretti

Coltellini is also suspected to be the author of the following libretti: Le nozze d'Amore and Il mondo della luna (adaptation of Goldoni's libretto Il mondo della luna ) with music by Paisiello, St. Petersburg 1783

literature

  • Anna Maria Loreto Tozzi:  Coltellini, Marco. In: Alberto M. Ghisalberti (Ed.): Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani (DBI). Volume 27:  Collenuccio – Confortini. Istituto della Enciclopedia Italiana, Rome 1982.
  • Novella letterarie di Firenze, IV (1773), column 835
  • P. Napoli Signorelli: Storia critica de 'teatri antichi e moderni ; Napoli 1780, VI, p. 283
  • S. Arteaga: Le rivoluzioni del teatro musicale italiano, I ; Bologna 1783, p. 246; II, ibid. 1785, p. 175
  • J. de La Lande: Voyage en Italie, III ; Paris 1786, p. 231
  • F. Pera: Ricordi e biography livornesi ; Livorno 1867, pp. 5, 26, 270, 354
  • G. Chiappini: L'arte della stampa in Livorno ; Livorno 1904, pp. 61-78
  • A. Bonaventure: Una celebre cantante livornese del '700. In: Mus. d'oggi, VI (1924). 9, p. 255
  • A. Bonaventure: Musici livornesi ; Livorno 1930, p. 37
  • A. Servolini: La tipografia a Livorno nei secc. XVII e XVIII. In: Gutenberg Jahrbuch, XVI (1941), p. 239
  • Tutte le opere di P. Metastasio ; a cura di B. Brunelli, IV, Milano 1944, p. 188
  • RA Mooser: Annales de la musique… en Russie… ; Genève 1951, II, pp. 144-47
  • G. Natali: Il Settecento ; Milano 1964–1971, II, p. 162
  • F. Mazzei: Memorie della vita ... ,; I , Milano 1970, pp. 34, 64, 131
  • A. Lay: Un editore illuminista: G. Aubert nel carteggio con Beccaria e Verri. In: Mem. Dell'Accad. delle scienze di Torino, p. 4, XXVII (1973), 1-235
  • C. Schmidl: Dizionario universale dei musicisti. P. 360
  • Robert Eitner : Quellen-Lexikon, X, p. 414
  • Enciclopedia dello Spettacolo, III, Sp. 1147
  • Rodolfo Celletti:  Coltellini, Marco. In: Friedrich Blume (Hrsg.): The music in past and present (MGG). First edition, Volume 15 (Supplement 1: Aachen - Dyson). Bärenreiter / Metzler, Kassel et al. 1973, DNB 550439609 , Sp. 1553–1555 (= Digital Library Volume 60, pp. 14498–14503).
  • Daniel Brandenburg:  Coltellini, Marco. In: Ludwig Finscher (Hrsg.): The music in past and present . Second edition, personal section, volume 4 (Camarella - Couture). Bärenreiter / Metzler, Kassel et al. 2000, ISBN 3-7618-1114-4 , Sp. 1415-1417 ( online edition , subscription required for full access)
  • The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians , 1st Ed. 1980, IV, p. 586.
  • Susanna Corrieri: Marco Coltellini e la sua stamperia nella Toscana del settecento. In: Nuovi Studi Livornese, vol. I , 1993

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personal data
SURNAME Coltellini, Marco
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian librettist, printer and tenor
DATE OF BIRTH October 13, 1719
PLACE OF BIRTH Livorno
DATE OF DEATH November 1777
Place of death St. Petersburg