Nicola Bonifacio Logroscino
Nicola Bonifacio Logroscino (born October 22, 1698 in Bitonto , † around 1765 in Palermo ?) Was an Italian composer and conductor .
Live and act
He received his first music lessons from his uncle Pietro Logroscino, who was music director at the cathedral in Bitonto . In 1714 he came to Naples and - possibly with his brother - to the Conservatorio Santa Maria di Loreto , where he was tutored by Gaetano Veneziano (1656-1716) and his son Giovanni Veneziano (1683-1742), among others . The latter was one of the first Neapolitan composers of comic operas . In 1728 Nicola Logroscino became organist for the Archbishop of Conza . From 1731 he worked in Naples, where his first operas were written. Until around 1750 Logroscino wrote mostly operas for the less important theaters of Naples, often as pasticcio together with other composers. He had great success with L'olimpiade , which was performed in 1753 at the Teatro Argentina in Rome. There is an anonymous criticism of this, which Pier Leone Ghezzi provided with a drawing that shows Logroscino conducting an opera from the harpsichord. From 1758 he was Kapellmeister at the Conservatorio de 'figliuoli dispersi in Palermo. In autumn 1765, about a year after his death, his opera La gelosia was performed at the Teatro Grimani in Venice.
In the Essai sur la musique ancienne et modern of 1780 by the French composer Jean-Benjamin de La Borde , Logroscino was described as “Dieu du genre buffon et modèle à presque tous les compositeur du genre”. In more recent studies, however, its role has been assessed as significantly less important for the development of opera in the 18th century.
Works (selection)
Stage works
- Lo creduto infedele (Antonio Palomba), opera comica 3 acts (1735 Naples)
- Il Quinto Fabio ( Antonio Salvi ), dramma (1738 Rome)
- Inganno per inganno (Gennarantonio Federico), opera comica 3 acts (1738 Naples)
- L'inganno felice (Tommaso Mariani), opera comica 3 acts (1739 Naples)
- La Violante (Antonio Palomba), opera comica 3 acts (1741 Naples, adaptation of L'amor costante by Auletta )
- La Lionora (Gennarantonio Federico), opera comica 3 acts (1742 Naples)
- Amore ed amistade , opera comica 3 acts (1742 Naples)
- Il Riccardo , opera comica 3 acts (1743 Naples)
- Il Leandro , opera comica 3 acts (Antonio Villani) (1744 Naples)
- Ciommettella correvata (Pietro Trinchera), opera comica 3 acts (1744 Naples; revived as Lo Cicisbeo , 1751 Naples)
- Li zite (Pietro Trinchera), opera comica 3 acts (1745 Naples)
- Don Paduano (Pietro Trinchera), opera comica 3 acts (1745 Naples)
- Il governatore (Domenico Canicà), opera comica 3 acts (1747 Naples)
- La Costanza (Antonio Palomba), opera comica 3 acts (1747 Naples)
- Il Giunio Bruto (Mariangela Passeri), dramma (1748 Rome)
- La contessa di Belcolore (Niccolò Carulli), intermezzo 2 parts (1748 Florence)
- Li despiette d'ammore (Antonio Palomba), opera comica 3 acts (1748 Naples), only acts 1 and 2, act 3 by Calandro
- A finta frascatana (Gennarantonio Federico), opera comica 3 acts (1751 Naples; adaptation of L'amor vuol sofferenza by Leonardo Leo with additions by Nicola Bonifacio Logroscino and Ferradini)
- Amore figlio del piacere (Antonio Palomba), opera comica 3 acts (1751 Naples; collaboration with G. Ventura)
- Lo finto Perziano (Pietro Trinchera), opera comica 3 acts (1752 Naples; 1 aria reused from Giunio Bruto ; 3 arias reused from Li nnamorate correvate by Sciroli 1752)
- La Griselda (Antonio Palomba), opera comica 3 acts (1752 Naples)
- La pastorella scaltra , intermezzo 2 parts (1753 Rome)
- L'Elmira generosa (Pietro Trinchera), opera comica 3 acts (1753 Naples; collaboration with Emanuele Barbella)
- L'olimpiade ( Pietro Metastasio ), dramma (1753 Rome)
- Le chiajese cantarine (Pietro Trinchera), opera comica 3 acts (1754 Naples; collaboration with Fischietti / Giacomo Maraucci; arrangement by L'abata Collarone by Domenico Fischietti )
- La Rosmonda (Antonio Palomba), opera comica 3 acts (1755 Naples; collaboration with Cecere / Carlos Gomes / Traetta)
- Le finte magie , opera comica 3 acts (1756 Naples)
- I disturbi (1756 Naples; collaboration with Traetta)
- La finta 'mbreana (G. Bisceglia), opera comica 3 acts (1756 Naples; collaboration with Errichelli)
- La fante di buon gusto (Antonio Palomba), opera comica 3 acts (1758 - Naples; revived as La furba burlata [Pietro Napoli-Signorelli]) (1760 Naples; additions by Piccinni / Insanguine)
- Le nozze ( Carlo Goldoni ), pasticcio (1760 Palermo; Acts 1 and 2 by Galuppi; Act 3 by Logroscino entitled La conversazione )
- L'innamorato balordo (De Napoli [= Napoli-Signorelli?]), Opera comica 3 acts (1763 Naples; collaboration with Insanguine / Geremia)
- Le viaggiatrici di bell'umore (De Napoli), opera comica 3 acts (1763 Naples; collaboration with Insanguine)
- La gelosia (Anonymous from Bologna), opera comica 3 acts (1765 Venice)
Oratorios and other works
- Festa teatrale per la nascita del Reale Infante (1743 Naples; part 1)
- Il Natale di Achille (Giovanni Baldanza), azione drammatica 1 act (1760 Palermo)
- Perseo (Giovanni Baldanza), azione drammatica 1 act (1762 Palermo)
- Il tempo dell'onore (Giovanni Baldanza), componimento drammatico (1765 Naples; collaboration with Antonino Speraindeo)
- Stabat Mater in E flat major for soprano, alto, 2 violins and bc (1760, Palermo)
- Parafrasi sullo Stabat Mater (listed posthumously in Naples in 1784)
- Salmi brevi for four voices and 2 violins and bc (Palermo)
Doubtful
- Tanto ben che male (Naples)
- Il vecchio marito (Naples)
- Adriano (Metastasio, 1742)
Web links
- List of stage works by Nicola Bonifacio Logroscino based on the MGG at Operone
- Search for operas by Nicola Bonifacio Logroscino (search term in the Autore field : “Logroscino Nicola Bonifacio”) in the Corago information system of the University of Bologna
- Sheet music and audio files by Nicola Bonifacio Logroscino in the International Music Score Library Project
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Logroscino, Nicola Bonifacio |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Lo Groscino, Nicola Bonifacio; Locrasino, Nicola Bonifacio; Locroscino, Nicola Bonifacio; Rogroscino, Nicola Bonifacio |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Italian composer and conductor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 22, 1698 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Bitonto |
| DATE OF DEATH | around 1765 |
| Place of death | Palermo |