Nicola Sabatino

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Nicola Sabatino , also Nicolò Sabatini, (* around 1705 in Naples ; † April 4, 1796 ibid) was an Italian composer of the Neapolitan school .

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Nicola Sabatino was the son of Giovanni Sebastiano Sabatino (1667–1742), a violinist with the royal chapel in Naples. He received his training at the “Conservatorio di Sant'Onofrio in Capuana”, where he was taught by Francesco Feo and Ignazio Prota , and he received violin lessons from Emanuele Barbella . Sabatini was above all a composer of church music. He composed numerous Psalm , Magnificat and Tantum ergo settings as well as other works for church use. Numerous preserved works or performance dates from the period between 1725 and 1775 attest to his fruitful compositional work.

Due to an illness of Giovanni Battista Pergolesi in 1735 he was commissioned to compose part of the Serenata Il tempo felice on the occasion of the wedding of the Prince of San Severo , Raimondo di Sangro . In 1752 he composed his first opera with Cleante , which was performed in Rome. Thanks to the success of Cleante , in 1754 he was commissioned to compose the opera Arsace for the Teatro San Carlo in Naples. After that, Sabatino turned back mainly to church music. In 1758 he became Kapellmeister at the Church of San Giacomo degli Spagnuoli and in 1763 Kapellmeister at the Oratorio dei Filipini, both posts he held until his retirement in 1788. As the old master of the Neapolitan musicians, in 1774 he led the public funeral service in memory of the late composer Niccolò Jommelli .

Works (selection)

Stage works
  • Il tempo felice (Serenata, Naples, 1735)
  • Cleante (Carnival 1752, Rome)
  • Arsace (May 30, 1754, Naples)
  • L'Endimione , libretto: Pietro Metastasio (Dublin, Academy of Music, 1758)
measure up
  • 4-part mass in A major, 1726
  • 5-part mass in G major, 1728
  • 5-part mass in G major, 1749
Oratorios
  • Jaele (Genoa, 1740; Venice, 1743)
  • L'Immacolata Concezione santissima Vergine (Venice, 1741)
  • L'Innonocenza intatta (Spello, 1743)
  • L'Aurora foriera della pace fra Giacobbe ed Esaù (Palermo, 1757)
Cantatas
  • Laetamini fideles for alto, 2 violins and B. c.
  • Vola turtur de nido
  • Pieta vi supplico dolce Signore
Instrumental
  • Sonata for violoncello, 2 violins and B. c.
  • Sonata for transverse flute, 2 violins and B. c. (lost)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ MGG : Volume 14, Columns 743-744
  2. ↑ Robert Eitner : Biographical-bibliographical source lexicon of musicians and music scholars (1903)
personal data
SURNAME Sabatino, Nicola
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Sabatini, Nicolò
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian pre-classical composer
DATE OF BIRTH around 1705
PLACE OF BIRTH Naples
DATE OF DEATH April 4, 1796
Place of death Naples