Paolo Scalabrini

Paolo Scalabrini (* 1713 ; † 1803 or February 28, 1806 in Lucca ) was an Italian opera composer .

Life

From 1742 Scalabrini worked as Kapellmeister in Pietro Mingotti's opera troupe, with whom he traveled through Germany and Austria. In this function he composed and arranged numerous operas. In 1747 he came to Copenhagen with Mingotti, where they gave annual performances until 1756. In 1748 he married the soprano Grazia Mellini. When Johann Adolf Scheibe lost his position as court conductor in Copenhagen in the same year, Scalabrini succeeded him until Giuseppe Sarti took over this position in 1753 . Scalabrini remained in Copenhagen and composed operas there, but also interludes and singspiele, which were translated into Danish. He later resumed his travels for a few years, but returned to Copenhagen in 1768 as head of an opera company he had assembled in Italy. From 1775 until the death of his wife in 1781, he again took over the position of court conductor. Then he returned to Italy. There he married the singer Teresa Torre, who had come to Copenhagen with him in 1768. He died in Lucca in 1806.

On the occasion of Franz I Stephen's coronation in September 1745, Mingotti's opera company in Hamburg performed Johann Adolf Hasse's opera La clemenza di Tito on his birthday on December 8th , which was framed by two works by Scalabrini: the “Prologo” Per l'esaltazione al trono imperiale di Francesco re di Gierusalemme based on a text by Francesco Darbes and an "epilogo" without a title with a text by Barthold Heinrich Brockes .

Works

Only a few of Scalabrini's compositions have survived , including the operas Den forliebte Skildrer , Kærlighed uden Strømper , Oraklet and the Sinfonia zu Artaserse . In addition, twenty arias and six symphonias have survived. According to the information in the libretti, the music of some of the arias in many of his operas comes from other composers. So it is at least partially a pasticci set up by Scalabrini .

Oratorios

Il Giuseppe riconosciuto , componimento sagro per musica; Libretto: Pietro Metastasio ; 1742, Venice, Oratorio di San Filippo Neri; also on March 24, 1746 in Hamburg; 1750 in the oratorio di San Filippo Neri in Bologna.

Didone. Title page of the libretto, Hamburg 1744

Stage works

Sirbace, dramma per musica; Libretto: Claudio Nicola Stampa; Carnival 1742, Graz, Theater am Tummelplatz; some arias are from other composers.
Oronte, re de Sciti, dramma per musica; Libretto: Carlo Goldoni ; September 1, 1742, Graz, Theater am Tummelplatz; also on January 21, 1745 in the opera on Gänsemarkt in Hamburg; some arias come from other composers such as Niccolò Jommelli and Johann Adolf Hasse .
Venceslao, dramma per musica; Libretto: Apostolo Zeno ; 1743, Linz, Theater im Ballhaus; also on October 31, 1743 in the opera on Gänsemarkt in Hamburg; 1748 in the Kongelige Teater in Copenhagen; some arias are from other composers.
Caio Fabrizio, dramma per musica; Libretto: Apostolo Zeno; Carnival 1743, Graz, Theater am Tummelplatz; some arias are from other composers.
La Semiramide riconosciuta , dramma per musica; Libretto: Pietro Metastasio; Carnival 1743, Graz, Theater am Tummelplatz; also on February 9, 1745 in the opera on Gänsemarkt in Hamburg; some arias are from other composers.
L'asilo d'Amore , festa teatrale; Libretto: Pietro Metastasio; Libretto printed in Vienna in 1743.
Artaserse , dramma per musica; Libretto: Pietro Metastasio; November 13, 1743, Hamburg, Oper am Gänsemarkt; Resumed October 24, 1746; on January 29, 1749 in Charlottenborg Palace in Copenhagen; some arias are from other composers.
Siroe, re di Persia , dramma per musica; Libretto: Pietro Metastasio; 1743, Prague, Theater im Ballhaus; also on December 14, 1743 in the opera on Gänsemarkt in Hamburg; Carnival 1744 in Prague; 1749 in the Kongelige Teater in Copenhagen.
Antigono , dramma per musica; Libretto: Pietro Metastasio; Lent 1744, Prague, Nuovo Teatro; also on September 10, 1744 and November 11, 1747 in the opera on Gänsemarkt in Hamburg; some arias are from other composers.
Adelaide, dramma per musica ( pastiche based on the Ottone of Gennaro D'Alessandro ); Libretto: Antonio Salvi ; July 23, 1744, Hamburg, Oper am Gänsemarkt; in the same year also in the Theater im Reithaus in Leipzig.
Didone , dramma per musica; Libretto: Pietro Metastasio; August 6, 1744, Hamburg, Oper am Gänsemarkt; Resumed November 9, 1746; also in Munich in 1747; 1748 in the Kongelige Teater in Copenhagen; some arias are from other composers.
Demetrio , dramma per musica; Libretto: Pietro Metastasio; November 4, 1744, Hamburg, Oper am Gänsemarkt; also in Munich and Leipzig in 1747; some arias are from other composers.
Il Catone in Utica , dramma per musica; Libretto: Pietro Metastasio; December 25, 1744, Hamburg, Oper am Gänsemarkt; some arias are from other composers.
Diomeda, dramma per musica; Libretto: Francesco Passarini ; July 28, 1745, Hamburg, Oper am Gänsemarkt; also in 1753 in the Kongelige Teater in Copenhagen; some arias are from other composers.
Per l'esaltazione al trono imperiale di Francesco re di Gierusalemme. Prologo; Libretto: Francesco Darbes ; December 8, 1745, Hamburg, Oper am Gänsemarkt.
[Per l'esaltazione al trono imperiale di Francesco re di Gierusalemme.] Epilogo; Libretto: Barthold Heinrich Brockes ; December 8, 1745, Hamburg, Oper am Gänsemarkt.
L'Arminio principe de Cauci e de Cherusci , dramma per musica; Libretto: Antonio Salvi; January 12, 1746, Hamburg, Oper am Gänsemarkt.
La gara, o sia La pace degl'eroi, componimento drammatico; Libretto: Francesco Darbes; February 24, 1746, Hamburg, Oper am Gänsemarkt.
Angelica e Medoro , serenata; Libretto: Pietro Metastasio; April 25, 1746, Hamburg, Oper am Gänsemarkt.
Il tempio di Melpomene su le rive dell'Alstra; Libretto: Francesco Darbes and Friedrich von Hagedorn ; January 31, 1747, Hamburg, Oper am Gänsemarkt; with music by Georg Philipp Telemann , Filippo Finazzi, Carl Christoph Hachmeister and Cyrill von Wich .
Merope, dramma per musica; Libretto: Apostolo Zeno; February 8, 1747, Hamburg, Oper am Gänsemarkt; also in Dresden; some arias are from other composers.
Adriano , dramma per musica; Libretto: Pietro Metastasio; 1749, Copenhagen, Det Kongelige Teater.
Alessandro nell'Indie , dramma per musica; Libretto: Pietro Metastasio; 1749, Copenhagen, Det Kongelige Teater.
Il marito vizioso, intermezzo; Libretto: Francesco Darbes; 1750, Copenhagen, Det Kongelige Teater.
Don Chisciotte, intermezzo per musica; Libretto: Francesco Darbes; Autumn 1752, Copenhagen; also in Hamburg in 1753.
Lucio Vero , dramma per musica; Libretto: Apostolo Zeno; November 1746, Braunschweig, Court Theater ; Authorship doubtful; German translation of the libretto probably by Georg Caspar Schürmann ; Arias by Carl Heinrich Graun ; also on November 28, 1746 in the opera on Gänsemarkt in Hamburg; for the winter fair in 1756 again in Braunschweig.
The forliebte skildrer; to Molière : Le Sicilien; 1756, Copenhagen.
Koerlighed uden strømper ( love without stockings ); Libretto: Johan Herman Wessel ; 1773, Copenhagen.
Oraklet; Libretto: Saint Foix, Gellert; 1776, Copenhagen.
Anagilda, azione drammatica; 1772, Copenhagen, Det Kongelige Teater

Instrumental works

Six symphonies in D major, C major, G major, D major, F major and B major

literature

Scalabrini, Paolo. In: Grove Music Online (English; subscription required).
Nils Schiørring: Scalabrini, Paolo. In: Ludwig Finscher (Hrsg.): The music in past and present . Second edition, personal section, volume 14 (Riccati - Schönstein). Bärenreiter / Metzler, Kassel et al. 2005, ISBN 3-7618-1134-9 , Sp. 1062 ( online edition , subscription required for full access).
Paolo Scalabrini. In: Oesterreichisches Musiklexikon . Online edition, Vienna 2002 ff., ISBN 3-7001-3077-5 ; Print edition: Volume 4, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 2005, ISBN 3-7001-3046-5 .
Carlo Schmidl : Dizionario universale dei musicisti , Milan 1887.

Web links

Literature by and about Paolo Scalabrini in the catalog of the German National Library
Works by and about Paolo Scalabrini in the German Digital Library
Sheet music and audio files by Paolo Scalabrini in the International Music Score Library Project
List of stage works by Paolo Scalabrini based on the MGG at Operone
Search for operas by Paolo Scalabrini (search term in the Autore field : “Scalabrini Paolo”) in the Corago information system of the University of Bologna

Digital copies

Remarks

↑ In the textbooks the exact wording is: "The music is from Mr. Paulo Scalabrini, with the exception of some arias that were written by different authors."

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e Nils Schiørring, Hans-Ewald Brennecke (transl.): Scalabrini, Paolo. In: Friedrich Blume (Hrsg.): The music in past and present (MGG). First edition, Volume 11 (Rasch - Schnyder von Wartensee). Bärenreiter / Metzler, Kassel et al. 1963, DNB 550439609 , Sp. 1470 (= Digital Library Volume 60, pp. 66047-66048).
↑ ^a ^b nn .: Scalabrini, Paolo. In: Grove Music Online (English; subscription required).
↑ Roland Dieter Schmidt-Hensel: “La musica è del Signor Hasse detto il Sassone…” Johann Adolf Hasse's “Opere serie” from 1730 to 1745. Sources, versions, performances. Part II: List of works, sources and performances. V&R unipress 2009, ISBN 978-3-89971-442-5 , p. 430.
^ Dorothea Schröder: Contemporary history on the opera stage. Baroque music theater in Hamburg in the service of politics and diplomacy (1690–1745). Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 1998, ISBN 3-525-27900-0 , pp. 282-284.
^ Alfred Noe: The Italian court poets. The end of an era. In: Elisabeth Fritz-Hilscher (Ed.): In the service of a state idea. Arts and artists at the Viennese court around 1740 (= Viennese musicological contributions, volume 24). Böhlau, Vienna 2013, ISBN 978-3-205-78927-7 . P. 38.
↑ Giovanni Tribuzio: L'opera ritrovata di Gennaro D'Alessandro e Carlo Goldoni: dall ' "Ottone" by Federico Cristiano Leopoldo di Sassonia (Venezia, 1739-1740) all' "Adelaide" della compagnia di Pietro Mingotti (Praga, e Lipsia Amburgo, 1744). In: Galliano Ciliberti, Giovanni Tribuzio (ed.): O celeste armonia di lieta sorte. Lectures, lezioni e ricerche di musicologia . Morlacchi Editore University Press, Perugia 2019, ISBN 978-889392124-4 , pp. 25-140 ( online ).
↑ ^a ^b Christine Fischer: Instrumented visions of female power. Maria Antonia Walpurgis' works as a stage for political self-staging (= Swiss contributions to music research. Volume 7). Bärenreiter, Kassel 2007, ISBN 978-3-7618-1829-9 , p. 81.
^ Lucio Vero (Paolo Scalabrini) in the Corago information system of the University of Bologna . Retrieved December 15, 2015.
↑ Lucius Verus. Library data set of the Herzog August Library Wolfenbüttel. Retrieved December 15, 2015.

personal data
SURNAME	Scalabrini, Paolo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Italian opera composer
DATE OF BIRTH	1713
DATE OF DEATH	1803 or February 28, 1806
Place of death	Lucca

[6] Il Giuseppe riconosciuto. Libretto (Italian), Venice 1742. Digital copy from the Biblioteca Nazionale Braidense .

[7] Sirbace. Libretto (Italian / German), Graz 1742. Digitized version of the Austrian National Library .

[8] Venceslao. Libretto (Italian / German), Hamburg 1743. Digitalisat the Berlin State Library .

[9] Caio Fabrizio. Libretto (Italian / German), Graz 1743. Digitized at Google Books .

[10] La Semiramide riconosciuta. Libretto (Italian / German), Graz 1743. Digitized at Google Books .

[12] retto (Italian / German), Hamburg 1743. Digitalisat the Berlin State Library .

[13] Antigono. Libretto (Italian / German), Hamburg 1744. Digitalisat the Berlin State Library .

[15] Adelaide. Libretto (Italian / German), Hamburg 1744. Digitalisat the Berlin State Library .

[17] Didone. Libretto (Italian / German), Hamburg 1746. Digitalisat the Berlin State Library .

[18] Demetrio. Libretto (Italian / German), Hamburg 1744. Digitalisat the Berlin State Library .

[19] Diomeda. Libretto (Italian / German), Copenhagen 1753. Digitalisat the Berlin State Library .

[20] Per l'esaltazione al trono imperial di Francesco di re Gierusalemme. Prologo. Libretto (Italian / German), Hamburg 1745. Digitized version of the Austrian National Library .

[21] Per l'esaltazione al trono imperial di Francesco di re Gierusalemme. Epilogue. Libretto (Italian / German), Hamburg 1745. Digitized version of the Lower Saxony State and University Library in Göttingen .

[22] L'Arminio principe de Cauci e de Cherusci. Libretto (Italian / German), Hamburg 1746. Digitalisat the Berlin State Library .

[23] Il tempio di Melpomene su le rive dell'Alstra. Libretto (Italian), Hamburg 1747. Digitalisat the Berlin State Library .

[24] Merope. Libretto (Italian / German), Dresden around 1747. Digitized version of the Dresden State and University Library .

[25] Don Chisciotte. Libretto (Italian / German), Copenhagen 1752. Digitized version of the Lower Saxony State and University Library in Göttingen .

[5] In the textbooks the exact wording is: "The music is from Mr. Paulo Scalabrini, with the exception of some arias that were written by different authors."

[mgg-1] Nils Schiørring, Hans-Ewald Brennecke (transl.): Scalabrini, Paolo. In: Friedrich Blume (Hrsg.): The music in past and present (MGG). First edition, Volume 11 (Rasch - Schnyder von Wartensee). Bärenreiter / Metzler, Kassel et al. 1963, DNB 550439609 , Sp. 1470 (= Digital Library Volume 60, pp. 66047-66048).

[grove-2] .: Scalabrini, Paolo. In: Grove Music Online (English; subscription required).

[3] Roland Dieter Schmidt-Hensel: “La musica è del Signor Hasse detto il Sassone…” Johann Adolf Hasse's “Opere serie” from 1730 to 1745. Sources, versions, performances. Part II: List of works, sources and performances. V&R unipress 2009, ISBN 978-3-89971-442-5 , p. 430.

[4] Dorothea Schröder: Contemporary history on the opera stage. Baroque music theater in Hamburg in the service of politics and diplomacy (1690–1745). Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 1998, ISBN 3-525-27900-0 , pp. 282-284.

[11] Alfred Noe: The Italian court poets. The end of an era. In: Elisabeth Fritz-Hilscher (Ed.): In the service of a state idea. Arts and artists at the Viennese court around 1740 (= Viennese musicological contributions, volume 24). Böhlau, Vienna 2013, ISBN 978-3-205-78927-7 . P. 38.

[14] Giovanni Tribuzio: L'opera ritrovata di Gennaro D'Alessandro e Carlo Goldoni: dall ' "Ottone" by Federico Cristiano Leopoldo di Sassonia (Venezia, 1739-1740) all' "Adelaide" della compagnia di Pietro Mingotti (Praga, e Lipsia Amburgo, 1744). In: Galliano Ciliberti, Giovanni Tribuzio (ed.): O celeste armonia di lieta sorte. Lectures, lezioni e ricerche di musicologia . Morlacchi Editore University Press, Perugia 2019, ISBN 978-889392124-4 , pp. 25-140 ( online ).

[fischer-16] Christine Fischer: Instrumented visions of female power. Maria Antonia Walpurgis' works as a stage for political self-staging (= Swiss contributions to music research. Volume 7). Bärenreiter, Kassel 2007, ISBN 978-3-7618-1829-9 , p. 81.

[26] Lucio Vero (Paolo Scalabrini) in the Corago information system of the University of Bologna . Retrieved December 15, 2015.

[27] Lucius Verus. Library data set of the Herzog August Library Wolfenbüttel. Retrieved December 15, 2015.