Ortensio Mauro
Ortensio Bartolomeo Mauro (also: Hortensio ) ( baptized August 24, 1634 in Verona / Veneto ; † September 14, 1725 in Hanover ) was an Italian writer and librettist .
Life
Mauro studied literature at the University of Padua and then lived at the court of Paderborn and from 1663 on that of Celle . In 1674 he came to the court of Hanover as court secretary, court poet and master of ceremonies .
After returning to Paderborn in 1678, he returned to Hanover in 1683, where he belonged to the court of muses of Sophie von Hanover , the Electress of Braunschweig-Lüneburg . On her behalf, he wrote the libretti for the eight operas composed by his compatriot Agostino Steffani . As the most important work the libretto to apply Enrico Leone , the festival opera for in the January 30, 1689 Leineschloss opened Castle Opera House , the "1300 places one of the biggest, yet most beautiful theater of the time" (predecessor of the later of Georg Ludwig Friedrich Laves built Opera house ).
As court secretary to the Electress, Mauro was also in contact with Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz .
Ortensio Mauro died in Hanover in 1725.
literature
- Wolfgang Ruf in connection with Annette van Dyck-Hemming (Ed.): Riemann Musiklexikon , 12th completely revised edition in 3 volumes, Volume 2, Mainz 1961, p. 177
- Lajos Rovatkay : Opening opera for the Great Palace Theater. In: Sabine Hammer (ed.), Dieter Brosius (co-author): Opera in Hanover. 300 years of change in a city's music theater , ed. from the Niedersächsische Sparkassenstiftung , Hannover: Schlütersche Verlagsanstalt, 1990, ISBN 3-87706-298-9 , p. 23
- Claudia Kaufold: A musician as a diplomat. Abbé Agostino Steffani in Hanoverian service (1688 - 1703) , also dissertation 1994 at the University of Göttingen, in the series of publications of the Institute for Historical Research of the University of Göttingen , Vol. 36, Bielefeld: Verlag für Regionalgeschichte, 1997, ISBN 3-89534- 195-9
- Hugo Thielen : MAURO, Bartolomeo Ortensio (Hortensio). In: Dirk Böttcher , Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein, Hugo Thielen: Hannoversches Biographisches Lexikon . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2002, ISBN 3-87706-706-9 , p. 247.
- Hugo Thielen: Mauro, Bartolomeo Ortensio (Hortensio). In: Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein (eds.) U. a .: City Lexicon Hanover . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2009, ISBN 978-3-89993-662-9 , p. 432f.
Web links
- Mauro, Ortensio under Digitized Prints from the University Library Center of North Rhine-Westphalia , last accessed on February 20, 2016
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Hugo Thielen: MAURO ... (see literature)
- ↑ a b c Hugo Thielen: Mauro ... (see literature)
- ^ Hugo Thielen: Castle Theater, also Castle Opera House. In: Stadtlexikon Hannover , p. 544
- ^ Compare Günter Scheel, Kurt Müller, Georg Gerber (arrangement): Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz. All writings and letters , ed. from the German Academy of Sciences in Berlin , first row: General political and historical correspondence , seventh volume: 1691–1692 , Akademie-Verlag Berlin, 1994, ISBN 3-05-001888-7 , passim ; online through google books
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Mauro, Ortensio |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Mauro, Bartolomeo Ortensio; Maurus, Bartolomeus Hortensius; Maurus, Bartolomeus Ortensius; Maurus, Hortensius; Mauro, Bartolomeo Hortensio; Mauro, Hortensio |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Italian writer, court secretary, court poet and master of ceremonies |
| DATE OF BIRTH | baptized August 24, 1634 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Verona |
| DATE OF DEATH | September 14, 1725 |
| Place of death | Hanover |