Maria Teresa Agnesi Pinottini
Maria Teresa Agnesi Pinottini (born October 17, 1720 in Milan , † January 19, 1795 ibid) was an Italian composer and harpsichordist .
Life
The younger sister of the mathematician Maria Gaetana Agnesi was born as the third child of Pietro Agnesi di Monteviglia. Her musical talent soon became known and she became a student of the violinist and composer Carlo Zuccari . One of her classmates was Giorgio Giulini , who later participated in the founding of the "Accademia dei Trasformati", of which Agnesi also became a member. In her appearances as a harpsichordist, she mainly performed works by Jean-Philippe Rameau .
Agnesi's first work was the shepherd's cantata Il ristoro d'Arcadia in 1747 at the Teatro Ducale, the predecessor of La Scala in Milan . After Pietro Agnesi's death in 1752, she was able to marry Pietro Antonio Pinottini , which her father had previously refused to do. From this point on she devoted herself almost exclusively to music; in addition to concerts , sonatas , fantasies and chamber arias, she also wrote several operas , for which she sometimes wrote the libretto herself.
When Leopold Mozart traveled to Italy in 1770 to introduce his son , he came into contact with Agnesi Pinottini, which probably also led to a lively exchange of ideas. From the following year, no more works by Agnesi are known. She got into a financial crisis and had to ask one of her sisters for help. Two years after her husband's death, she died childless.
Works
39 works listed by RISM OPAC: harpsichord music, arias, operas Enter names like this: Maria Teresa Agnesi
Operas
- Ciro in Armenia (libretto by Agnesi, 1753. According to Wurzbach 1, p. 7, Agnesi is also the composer of Ciro )
- Il re pastore (libretto by Pietro Metastasio , probably 1755)
- Sofonisba (libretto by Giuseppe Maria Tomasi , 1765)
- Insubria consolata (libretto by Agnesi, 1766)
- Ulisse in Campania (libretto by Agnesi, 1768)
- Nitocri (Libretto by Apostolo Zeno , 1771)
literature
- Carolyn Britton: The life and keyboard works of Maria Teresa d'Agnesi. PhD at the University of Minnesota. 1979, OCLC 81895024 .
- Pinuccia Carrer, Barbara Petrucci: Donna Teresa Agnesi: compositrice illustrious (1720–1795). San Marco dei Giustiniani, Genoa, 2010, OCLC 1143532888 .
- Gian Paolo Chiti, Domenico Carboni (ed.): Ulisse in Campania. Curci, Milan, 2006, ISBN 88-485-0722-0 .
- Constantin von Wurzbach : Agnesi, Maria Cajetana . In: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich . 1st part. University printing house L. C. Zamarski (formerly JP Sollinger), Vienna 1856, p. 6 f. ( Digitized version ). (About her famous sister, side entry about Maria Teresa at the end of p. 7)
- Wilibald Gurlitt , Carl Dahlhaus (ed.): Riemann Music Lexicon. In three volumes and two supplementary volumes. d'Agnesi, Maria Theresa. 12th completely revised edition. 1. Personal section A – KB Schotts-Söhne, Mainz 1959, p. 11 (first edition: 1882).
- Wilibald Gurlitt, Carl Dahlhaus (ed.): Riemann Music Lexicon. In three volumes and two supplementary volumes. d'Agnesi, Maria Theresa. 12th completely revised edition. 4. Supplementary volume, personal section A – KB Schotts-Sons, Mainz 1972, p. 8 (first edition: 1882).
Web links
- Sheet music and audio files by Maria Teresa Agnesi in the International Music Score Library Project
- List of stage works by Maria Teresa Agnesi Pinottini based on the MGG at Operone
- Search for operas by Maria Teresa Agnesi Pinottini (search term in the Autore field : “Agnesi Maria Teresa”) in the Corago information system of the University of Bologna
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Agnesi Pinottini, Maria Teresa |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Italian composer and harpsichordist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 17, 1720 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Milan |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 19, 1795 |
| Place of death | Milan |