Marco Uccellini

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Marco Uccellini (* 1603 or 1610 in Forlimpopoli near Forlì ; † September 11, 1680 ibid) was an Italian violinist , conductor and composer of the Baroque.

Life

After training in Assisi , he moved to Modena in 1639 . In 1641 he was given the musical direction of the court orchestra of Francesco I. d'Este and in 1647 also the function of conductor at the Cathedral of San Geminiano . He held this post until 1665. Then he was Kapellmeister at the court of Ranuccio II Farnese in Parma , who had married Isabella d'Este. All of the operas and ballet he composed there have been lost.

Uccellini was also an important composer of instrumental music, leaving behind more than 300 works. In some of these works he used the scordature , these works are among the first publications in which this technique was used.

Nothing was preserved of the music he wrote for the two noble families in whose service he was. Only the printed works allow a musical historical classification. Here he occupies an important position in the development of the violin sonata, while his early sonatas had similarities with the works of Giovanni Maria Bononcini , Maurizio Cazzati or Giovanni Battista Vitali . Uccellini's sonatas Opp. 4 and 5 reached the highest level of technical development in violin playing, ahead of the sonatas by Johann Heinrich Schmelzers and Heinrich Ignaz Franz Bibers .

Works

Works with opus number

  • Op. 2: Sonata, Sinfonie et Correnti, a 2–4, bc (1639)
  • Op. 3: Sonata, Arie et Correnti à 2 e 3 per sonare per diversi Istromenti (Venice 1642)
  • Op. 4: Sonata, Correnti et Arie da Farsi con diversi Stromenti sì da Camera come da Chiesa, à uno, à due, & à trè (Venice 1645)
  • Op. 5: Sonata over Canzoni da Farsi à violino solo, & basso continuo (Venice 1649)
  • Op. 6: Salmi , 1, 3–5vv, bc, concertante parte con Instrumenti e parte senza, con Letanie della beata Virgine, 5vv, bc (1654)
  • Op. 7: Ozio regio: Compositioni armoniche sopra il Violino e diversi altri Strumenti , a 1–6, bc (Venice 1660)
  • Op. 9: Sinfonici concerti brevi e facili , a 1–4 (1667)
  • Op. 8: Symphony boscareccie a violino solo, e Basso, con l'Agiunta di due altri Violini ad Libitum, per poter sonare à due, à trè, è à quattro conforme piacerà (Antwerp 1669)

Operas and ballets

  • Le Navi d'Enea , Ballet, Parma, 1673
  • Gli Eventi di Filandro ad Edessa , Opera, Parma, in the Collegio dei Nobili, 1675
  • Il Giove d'Elide fulminato , ballet, Parma, 1677

literature

  • Peter Allsop: The Italian "Trio" Sonata. From its Origins until Corelli. Clarendon Press, Oxford et al. 1992, ISBN 0-19-816229-4 .
  • Willi Apel : Italian violin music in the 17th century (= archive for musicology . Supplement 21). Steiner, Wiesbaden 1983, ISBN 3-515-03786-1 .
  • Hanns-Peter Mederer: The (r) evolution of the sonata. For the 400th birthday of Marco Uccellini (1603–1680). In: Concerto. Issue 184, June 2003, ISSN  0177-5944 , pp. 28-29.
  • Matthias Kirsch: Mantuaner Sinfonia: Studies on the symphonies Salamone Rossi, Giovanni Battista Buonamentes and Marco Uccellinis , Diss. Kiel 2010, online publication via the University Library Kiel: [1]

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personal data
SURNAME Uccellini, Marco
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian Baroque composer
DATE OF BIRTH 1603 or 1610
PLACE OF BIRTH Forlimpopoli
DATE OF DEATH September 11, 1680
Place of death Forlimpopoli