Pietro Nardini

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Pietro Nardini

Pietro Antonio Pasquale Nardini (born April 12, 1722 in Livorno , † May 7, 1793 in Florence ) was an Italian composer and violinist of the pre-classical period .

Life

He was the most famous student of Giuseppe Tartini , who taught Nardini from the age of twelve. Statements about the fourteen-year-old's first appearances are known from 1736. In 1760 and 1765 he accepted invitations to the Viennese court to make music on the occasion of the two weddings of the heir to the throne and later Emperor Joseph II . From 1762 Nardini was chamber musician at the court in Stuttgart and from 1763 to 1765 he was concertmaster of the court orchestra, which was under the direction of Niccolò Jommelli . After 1765 he traveled several times to the Brunswick court. In 1769 he became concert master under the conductor Carlo Antonio Campioni and in 1770 music director at the court of the Grand Duke Leopold of Tuscany in Florence, where he worked until his death. Bartolomeo Campagnoli and Thomas Linley junior were among his most important students .

In 1770 and 1771 he saw Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's performances on his first trip to Italy and his attempt to find permanent employment. Nardini's work can be assigned to the pre-classical period , and Tartini's influence can be felt in most of the works. Posterity can get an idea of ​​Nardini's art of ornamentation in the Nardini sonatas with the "Adagios brodés" (decorated adagios) published by Jean-Baptiste Cartier in his 1793 "L'Art du Violon".

Statements from contemporaries

Leopold Mozart heard Nardini in 1763 in Ludwigsburg Palace ; he wrote to his host and patron Lorenz Hagenauer with admiration; " Tell H: Wenzl that I have heard from certain Nardini, and that in the beauty, purity, equality of tone and in the singable taste nothing more beautiful can be heard ". Charles Burney recorded in Florence in 1770; " This afternoon I had the pleasure of hearing Mr. Nardini, he seems to me to be the best violin player in all of Italy ". The poet and music writer Friedrich Daniel Schubart wrote “ ... the tenderness of his lecture is impossible to describe: every comma seems to be a declaration of love. You've seen ice-cold princes and court ladies cry when he played an adagio "

Works (selection)

  • 6 Concerti per violino solo e orchestra op.1 (Amsterdam 1765)
  • 6 solos per violino e basso continuo op.5 (London around 1760)
  • 6 solos per violino e basso continuo op.2 (Amsterdam around 1770)
  • 7 Sonata per violino "avec les Adagios brodés" (published, Paris 1798)
  • Sonate enigmatique (published, Paris 1803)
  • 6 Concerti per violino solo e orchestra (received as a manuscript)
  • 14 Menuetti per due violini e basso continuo (London around 1750)
  • 6 Duetti per due viole (London around 1775)
  • 6 string quartets (Florence around 1782)
  • 8 trio sonatas
  • Romanza per due violini

literature

  • Clara Pfäfflin: Pietro Nardini, his works and his life , Stuttgart 1935.
  • In: Alfred Baumgartner: Propylaea world of music - The composers - A lexicon in five volumes . Propylaen Verlag, Berlin 1989, ISBN 3-549-07830-7 , pp. 144/145, volume 4 .
  • Nardini, Pietro:  Christine Siegert. In: MGG Online (subscription required).
  • Antonella D'Ovidio:  Nardini, Pietro. In: Raffaele Romanelli (ed.): Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani (DBI). Volume 77:  Morlini-Natolini. Istituto della Enciclopedia Italiana, Rome 2012.
  • Federico Marri / Marie Rouquié, Pietro Nardini (1722-1793) da Livorno all'Europa: Catalogo tematico delle opere , Treviso 2017, ISBN 978-88-96988-46-6 .

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SURNAME Nardini, Pietro
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Nardini, Pietro Antonio Pasquale (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian violinist and pre-classical composer
DATE OF BIRTH April 12, 1722
PLACE OF BIRTH Livorno
DATE OF DEATH May 7, 1793
Place of death Florence