Pietro Torri

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Pietro Torri (* around 1650 in Peschiera del Garda ; † July 6, 1737 in Munich ) was an Italian Bavarian composer .

Life

From 1667 Torri was the organist of Margrave Christian Ernst of Brandenburg-Bayreuth . In 1672 he took over the position of Bayreuth Kapellmeister as the successor to Johann Philipp Krieger . In 1684 he left Bayreuth and stayed in Italy for five years. From 1689 he was in the service of Elector Max Emanuel of Bavaria . In 1692 he followed his employer with part of the court orchestra to the Spanish Netherlands and settled with him in Brussels . Here Torri married the daughter of the electoral ballet master François Rodier (around 1665–1753).

During this time he stayed in Mons , Namur , Lille , Compiègne and Valenciennes , where some of his operas were performed.

In 1715 he returned to Munich. There he held the rank of supervisor for the Electoral Chamber Music and Kapellmeister . In the years that followed, an opera and numerous other compositions were written every year on behalf of the elector. For example, on the occasion of the wedding celebrations of the heir to the throne Karl Albrecht with the emperor's daughter Maria Amalia of Austria, he received the commission for the opera Adelaide, which premiered on October 18, 1722 in the opera house on Salvatorplatz near the Munich residence .

Max Emanuel died in 1726, and Karl Albrecht succeeded him on the electoral throne of the Bavarian Wittelsbach family . On this occasion Torri composed the allegorical Serenata La Baviera as a musical homage to the new ruler . This work already pays homage to the Bavarian claim to the imperial throne and represents the self-image of the dynasty. During his stay in Munich in 1729, the famous castrato Farinelli sang a solo part in the opera Nicomede .

Only after the death of Giuseppe Antonio Bernabei Torri was officially given the post of Bavarian court conductor.

Pietro Torri died in 1737, he was succeeded as court conductor by Giovanni Porta, who also came from Veneto .

Works

In addition to almost 20 operas, Torri composed serenatas, oratorios, psalms, torneos, cantatas and a Te Deum for Max Emanuel; after the Peace of Rastatt in 1714 he created the work Triomphe de la paix .

Operas

  • Le peripezze della Fortuna (6 acts),? Brussels,? January 1695, on the wedding of Maximilian II Emanuel to Therese Kunigunde
  • Untitled "Torneo", Munich, Leuchtenberg Castle, January 30, 1702 (votes)
  • Enone (“pastorale”), Brussels,? October 12, 1705 (fragment)
  • Le réciproque (“divertissement”), Valenciennes, 1714
  • L'innocenza difesa dai Numi [ Ismene ] ("dramma", 6 acts), Munich, Court Theater, August or October 1715
  • Astianatte ( Antonio Salvi ), Munich, Court Theater, October 12, 1716, as Andromacca, Munich, Court Theater, winter 1717
  • La Merope ( Apostolo Zeno ), Munich, Court Theater, October 12, 1719, resumption January 24, 1723
  • Eumene ("dramma per musica", Zeno), Munich, Hoftheater, July 14, 1720 (voices)
  • Lucio Vero ("dramma per musica", Zeno), Munich, Court Theater, October 12, 1720, revised, Munich, Court Theater, January 3, 1723; Mbs (votes)
  • L'amor d'amico vince ogni altro amore [ Pirro e Demetrio ] (3 acts), Munich, Court Theater, October 12, 1721
  • Adelaide ("dramma per musica", Salvi), Munich, Court Theater, October 18, 1722 (voices), for the wedding of Prince Elector Karl Albrecht with Maria Amalia
  • Griselda ("dramma per musica", Zeno), Munich, Hoftheater, October 12, 1723
  • Amadis from Greece (translation by P. di Perozzi: Amadis in Grecia ), Munich, Court Theater, October 1724
  • Venceslao ("dramma per musica", Zeno), Munich, Court Theater, October 12, 1725 (score, parts)
  • L'Epaminonda ("dramma per musica", Domenico Lalli ), Munich, 1727 (score, parts)
  • Nicomede ("dramma per musica", Lalli), Munich, 1728 (parts)
  • Edippo ("tragedia per musica", Lalli), Munich 1729 (parts)
  • L'Ippolito ("tragedia per musica", Lalli), Munich, 1731 (parts)
  • Ciro ("dramma per musica", Leopoldo de Villati ), Munich, 1733 (parts)
  • Catone in Utica ("tragedia per musica", Pietro Metastasio ), Munich, 1736 (parts)

Doubtful

  • L'ambizione fulminata (? Luigi Orlandi ), Munich, 1691
  • Briseide (“dramma per musica”, 3 acts, Francesco Passarini), Hanover, Carnival 1696. Formerly attributed to Agostino Steffani

Oratorios

  • Il Giobbe Christiano (3 acts), Munich, Court Chapel, February 10, 1690
  • S Vinceslao (2 acts),? Brussels, between 1692 and 1701
  • S Landelino (1 act),? Brussels, between 1692 and 1701
  • Abelle (3 acts),? Brussels, between 1692 and 1701 (incomplete)
  • La vanità del mondo, Brussels, March 5, 1706
  • Le martir des Maccabées (3 acts),? Brussels, between 1705 and 1714
  • S Genesio (3 acts),? between 1705 and 1714
  • Giacobbe [ Rebecca ] (3 acts),? between 1705 and 1714
  • Elia (2 acts, Villati), Munich, court chapel, Passion time 1730
  • Abramo (2 acts, Lalli), Munich, court chapel, passion time 1731
  • Gionata (2 acts), Munich, court chapel, Passion time - 1733

Cantatas

  • Fetonte (2 acts), Munich, October / Nov 1689
  • Gli amori di Titone e d'Aurora, July 1691
  • Il giorno festivo, Brussels, October 1695, previously in Munich
  • Le triomphe de la Paix  ,? France, 1714
  • La reggia dell'armonia (after L. Orlandi: Niobe ), August 1715, together with Agostino Steffani
  • Introduzione a balli, Munich, 1715/16
  • Torneo, Munich, Leuchtenberg Castle, composed May 6, 1718, performed 1718,? December 29th (score)
  • Epitalamio, Munich, Black Hall of the Residenz, February 17, 1719, for the wedding of Prince Ferdinand Maria and Maria Antonia Caroline von Pfalz-Neuburg (votes)
  • Per l'anniversario della nascità de SAE Massimiliano Emanuele, Munich, July 11, 1721
  • Gli dei festeggianti, Munich, August 6, 1721, votes
  • La Baviera  ,? Munich, before 1726

Solo cantatas

  • Chi non crede, basso continuo
  • Vuoi saper, Basso continuo
  • 8 cantatas for oboe and flageolet

Other works

  • Gli oracoli di Pallade e di Nemesi, Munich, February 6, 1690
  • I preggi della primavera (P. Orlandi), Munich, Leuchtenberg Castle, 1691
  • La publica felicità (“componimento poetico per musica”, P. Panati), Munich, October 22, 1722, for the wedding of Prince Elector Karl Albrecht with Duchess Maria Amalia , voices
  • Missa solemnis, D major, for 4 voices and instruments,? 1737
  • Missa pro defunctis, F major, for 5 voices and 6 instruments, 1726
  • Credo, Sanctus, Agnus Dei, C major, for 4 voices and 4 instruments
  • Apparuit gratia, bass, soprano, 3 instruments
  • Chamber duets, mainly for soprano, alto and basso continuo
  • two sonatas for 4 instruments
  • eight symphonias, lost (listed in the catalog of the Munich court orchestra from 1753)

Discography

  • Le Martyre des Macchabées, Musique en Wallonie, 2009
  • Le Triomphe de la Paix, ORF Edition Alte Music, Neue Hofkapelle Munich , Christoph Hammer , 2005
  • La Baviera, Neue Hofkapelle Munich, Christoph Hammer, 2003
  • Pietro Torri & Alfonso d'Eve, De Profunctis, 2001
  • Biaggio Marini e Pietro Torri, Canzonette Trastulli, Hans Ludwig Hirsch, 1998
  • Music at the court of Elector Max Emanuel of Bavaria, Musica Bavarica, co-production with Bayerischer Rundfunk

Honors

In 1958 a street in Munich in the Pasing-Obermenzing district was named after him, Torriweg

Web links

Commons : Pietro Torri  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Gordana Lazarevich:  Torri, Pietro. In: Grove Music Online (English; subscription required).
personal data
SURNAME Torri, Pietro
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian Baroque composer
DATE OF BIRTH around 1650
PLACE OF BIRTH Peschiera del Garda
DATE OF DEATH July 6, 1737
Place of death Munich