Pietro Auletta

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Pietro Auletta (born January 1698 in Sant'Angelo a Scala near Avellino , † September 1771 in Naples ) was an Italian composer and organist of the Baroque.

Life

Pietro Auletta received his musical training at the Conservatorio S. Onofrio in Naples, where Nicola Porpora was one of his teachers. Around 1724 he became Kapellmeister at the Church of S. Maria La Nova , one of the most important churches in the city-state. Auletta composed his first comic opera Il Trionfo dell'amore, ovvero Le nozze tra amici in 1725 for the Teatro Nuovo in Naples; a second opera La Carlotta was written a year later. A first heroic opera Ezio was performed in Rome in 1728. Further operas were performed as so-called pasticci , complete works of which several composers composed individual parts. His opera Orazio (1737) was performed in Paris in September 1752, also renamed as pasticcio in Il maestro di musica under the name Pergolesis . Another opera Auletta was performed in Munich in 1758.

His son Domenico Auletta (1723–1753) became known as an organist and composer of sacred music, especially numerous psalms. He also left three harpsichord concerts.

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Pietro Auletta composed a total of 17 operas. The few surviving works show this in a Neapolitan style that was progressive for the time. In addition to the oratorios Il martirio di S Ferma Vergine (1722) and the Oratorio sacro (1745), other sacred and secular works such as motets, cantatas and arias originate from his pen. A three-movement symphony with two oboes, two horns and strings is also preserved.

literature

  • Domenico A. d'Alessandro:  Auletta, Pietro Antonio. In: Ludwig Finscher (Hrsg.): The music in past and present . Second edition, personal section, volume 1 (Aagard - Baez). Bärenreiter / Metzler, Kassel et al. 1999, ISBN 3-7618-1111-X , Sp. 1177–1179 ( online edition , subscription required for full access).
  • Ulisse Prota-Giurleo:  Auletta, Pietro. In: Alberto M. Ghisalberti (Ed.): Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani (DBI). Volume 4:  Arconati-Bacaredda. Istituto della Enciclopedia Italiana, Rome 1962.
  • Graham Hardie: Neapolitan Comic Opera, 1707-1750: Some Addenda and Corrigenda for The New Grove. In: Journal of the American Musicological Society. Vol. 36, No. 1, 1983, ISSN  0003-0139 , pp. 124-127, JSTOR 830956 .
  • Michael R. Robinson: Naples and Neapolitan Opera. Clarendon Press, Oxford 1972.
  • Michael R. Robinson: Auletta, Pietro. In: Stanley Sadie (Ed.): The Grove Dictionary of Opera. Volume 1: A-D. Macmillan et al., London, 1992, ISBN 0-935859-92-6 , pp. 254-258.
  • Michael R. Robinson: Auletta, Pietro. In: Stanley Sadie (Ed.): The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians . Volume 2: Aristoxenus to Bax. 2nd edition. Macmillan et al., London 2001, ISBN 0-333-60800-3 , pp. 176-177.
  • Frank Walker: Two Centuries of Pergolesi Forgeries and Misattributions. In: Music & Letters. Vol. 30, No. 4, 1949, ISSN  0027-4224 , pp. 297-320, JSTOR 730672 .
  • Frank Walker: Orazio: the History of a Pasticcio. In: The Musical Quarterly. Vol. 38, No. 3, 1952, ISSN  0027-4631 , pp. 369-383, JSTOR 739765 .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ulisse Prota-Giurleo:  Auletta, Pietro. In: Alberto M. Ghisalberti (Ed.): Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani (DBI). Volume 4:  Arconati-Bacaredda. Istituto della Enciclopedia Italiana, Rome 1962.
  2. ↑ a b These articles form the main source of this text.
personal data
SURNAME Auletta, Pietro
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian composer and organist
DATE OF BIRTH January 1698
PLACE OF BIRTH Sant'Angelo a Scala at Avellino
DATE OF DEATH September 1771
Place of death Naples