Matteo Messori

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Matteo Messori (born April 23, 1976 in Bologna ) is an Italian harpsichordist , organist and conductor for early music .

Life

Matteo Messori studied piano (until 1990 with Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli's pupil Franca Fogli), organ, organ composition (with Umberto Pineschi ) and musicology in his hometown . He then studied harpsichord in the class of harpsichordist, organist, conductor and singer Sergio Vartolo at the Conservatories in Mantua and Venice.

In 1998 he won first prize at the national harpsichord competition "Gianni Gambi" in Pesaro and received other awards for his musical activities. He has been active as a soloist on organs and harpsichords in Italy, Europe and America for years, also with chamber music and symphonic groups. As a conductor, Messori has worked with Capella Cracoviensis at the Krakow Philharmonic (Bach's Christmas Oratorio) and with the Chamber Orchestra of the Republic of Belarus at the Minsk Philharmonic . He directed the first Italian staged performance of Handel's Roman oratorio, La Bellezza ravveduta nel Trionfo del Tempo e del Disinganno . It is a production of the Sagra Musicale Malatestiana in Rimini. As a conductor he has conducted concerts in France, Italy, Germany and Russia. In 2011 he worked as a harpsichordist with the Vienna Philharmonic under Daniel Harding at the Wiener Konzerthaus and conducted Cappella Augustana in the great hall of the St. Petersburg Philharmonic .

In order to research the relationships in music between Italy and Germany in the 16th to 18th centuries and to present them in performances, Messori founded the Ensemble Cappella Augustana . With the ensemble he recorded sacred music by Vincenzo Albrici . His recording of the third part of Johann Sebastian Bach's keyboard exercise on three historic Bach organs in Central Germany was awarded the “5 Diapason ” award .

In 2010 various recordings appeared both as a soloist and with the “Cappella Augustana” for harpsichord: The Art of Fugue, Musical Sacrifice and the unfinished fugue BWV 1080/19, including the canonical changes to “Vom Himmel hoch da komm ich her”, BWV 769, executed on the Trost organ in Waltershausen (1724).

In the field of Bach research and interpretation, Messori actively researched the pedal harpsichord, which Bach apparently had built for the Collegium musicum in Leipzig by the organ builder Zacharias Hildebrandt .

In November 2011, the German trade journal Fono Forum wrote : "The complete recording of Bach's late work is a statement with which the still young Italian harpsichordist and organist entered the top league of international Bach interpreters. This impression is also consolidated in the [...] Complete recording of the third part of the "Clavier-Exercise" ".

Messori holds a professorship for organ at the state conservatory "N. Paganini" in Genoa, teaches harpsichord, figured bass and historical keyboard instruments at the "Istituto Superiore di Studi Musicali G. Donizetti" in Bergamo and leads master classes and interpretation courses in various countries.

Discography (selection)

  • 2002: Vincenzo Albrici: Concerti sacri, Cappella Augustana - Label Mvsica Rediviva
  • 2003: 5 CDs Heinrich Schuetz Edition Vol. 1, Cappella Augustana - Brilliant Classics
  • 2004: 1 CD Heinrich Schuetz: Symphoniae sacrae, Cappella Augustana - Brilliant Classics
  • 2004: 5 CDs Heinrich Schuetz Edition Vol. 2, Cappella Augustana - Brilliant Classics
  • 2005: 4 CDs Heinrich Schuetz Edition Vol. 3, Cappella Augustana - Brilliant Classics
  • 2008: 2 CDs by Johann Sebastian Bach, third part of the keyboard exercise - Brilliant Classics
  • 2010: 5 CDs Heinrich Schütz Edition Vol. 4, Cappella Augustana - Brilliant Classics
  • 2010: 3 CDs Johann Sebastian Bach the art of fugue - musical sacrifice - some canonical changes - Brilliant Classics
  • 2011: 2 CDs Johann Sebastian Bach 8 Leipzig preludes and fugues - Schübler chorales - Brilliant Classics
  • 2011: 1 CD Luzzasco Luzzaschi - Complete Works for Keyboard Instruments - Brilliant Classics
  • 2012: 3 CDs Johann Caspar Kerll - Complete Works for Keyboard Instruments - Brilliant Classics
  • 2012: 1 CD Johann Sebastian Bach - Inventions and Symphonies (clavichord)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.cappella-augustana.org/conductor.php ( Memento from August 2, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
  2. ↑ Arnd Richter "Big and significant" in: Fono Forum, 11/2011, p. 82.
personal data
SURNAME Messori, Matteo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian harpsichordist, organist and conductor for early music
DATE OF BIRTH April 23, 1976
PLACE OF BIRTH Bologna