Ospedale della Pietà

Ospedale della Pietà in Venice

The Ospedale della Pietà was an orphanage and one of the four great music schools in Venice . Today it is a social institution of child and youth welfare in Venice.

history

The Ospedale della Pietà was founded in 1346 and initially served as an orphanage and hospice for single mothers with babies.

One of the prominent composers and music teachers at this school was Johann Rosenmüller , who had to leave Leipzig in 1655 because of a moral offense he was said to have committed and had to give up his candidacy for the Thomaskantorat . He worked at the Ospedale della Pietà from 1658 to 1682 (with a one-year break) before returning to Germany with Duke Anton Ulrich von Braunschweig-Lüneburg. Most of his settings based on Latin texts were probably composed here and in this capacity.

Antonio Vivaldi began teaching as a conductor, violinist and resident composer at the Ospedale della Pietà in Venice in 1703 . He stayed at the school until 1716 (with an interruption from February 1709 to September 1711), where he not only taught but also composed concerts and oratorios for the weekly performances. The Ospedale Orchestra soon gained a legendary reputation and attracted numerous travelers to Italy.

In 1742 Nicola Porpora became the choirmaster of the orphanage.

Important teachers at the Ospedale della Pietà

• Antonio Gualtieri , until 1649
• Carlo Fedeli , 1662–1672 Maestro di strumenti
• Johann Rosenmüller , house composer at the Ospedale between 1678 and 1682
• Francesco Gasparini , maestro di coro 1701–1713
• Antonio Vivaldi , 1703–1738 (with interruptions), first as Maestro di violino , from 1716 Maestro di concerto

• Antonio Vandini , 1720–1721 maestro di violoncello
• Carlo Luigi Pietragrua , 1719-1726, maestro di coro
• Giovanni Porta , 1726–1737 Maestro di coro
• Nicola Porpora , 1742-1744 Maestro di coro
• Andrea Bernasconi , 1744–1753 maestro di coro
• Gaetano Latilla , 1754-66 Maestro di coro
• Bonaventure Furlanetto , 1768-1817 Maestro di coro

The Pietà today

Santa Maria della Pietà

Today, under the roof of the Pietà, there are various social institutions, such as a women's refuge and facilities for the care of infants and small children, needy underage pregnant women and mothers with small children. There is also a baby hatch ( culla segreta ) and rooms in which divided parents can meet their children in a protected room after a divorce. In the Casa famiglia Sicar in Mira , abandoned or neglected children and young people from problematic social backgrounds can be taken in, where they are looked after in family-like groups.

Buildings of the old Ospedale are located in the Calle de la Pietà (historically also Calle della Pietà ) in the Sestiere Castello in the immediate vicinity of the Church of Santa Maria della Pièta . In the tradition of Venetian pilgrim hostels, the Pietà offers cheap accommodation for pilgrims and students to a limited extent in restored rooms of the old orphanage.

literature

• Uta Ruscher: Fiorenza dal Violin - Fate of a Venetian Findel , Lugano 2017, ISBN 978-1-5205-3919-5 .
• Helen Geyer : Music at the Venetian Ospedali Conservatories from the 17th to the early 19th century . Edizioni di Storia e Letteratura, Rome 2004, ISBN 88-8498-161-1 .
• Jane L. Baldauf-Berdes: Women Musicians of Venice. Musical Foundations, 1525-1855. Rev. ed. Oxford 1996. ISBN 0-19-816604-4 .

See also

Anna Bon di Venezia

Web links

• Istituto provinziale per l'infanzia Santa Maria della Pietà. In: pietavenezia.org (Italian).
• Book trailer Fiorenza dal Violin on YouTube.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Arnold Feil : Metzler Musik Chronik: From the early Middle Ages to the present . 2nd Edition. JB Metzler , Stuttgart 2016, ISBN 978-3-476-00145-0 , p. 357 ( Google Books ).
2. ^ Companion to Baroque Music. 1998, p. 39.
3. ↑ Gaetano Latilla. In: hoasm.org. Retrieved January 4, 2019 . 
4. ↑ Chiesa Santa Maria della Pièta. In: venediginformationen.eu. Retrieved January 4, 2019 . 

Coordinates: 45 ° 26 ′ 3.6 ″  N , 12 ° 20 ′ 19.6 ″  E