Quirino Gasparini

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Quirino Gasparini (born October 24, 1721 in Gandino (near Bergamo), † September 23, 1778 in Turin ) was an Italian composer and cellist.

Life

Quirino Gasparini first studied theology and was ordained a priest on September 18, 1741 in Bergamo. However, he then decided to devote his life to music and studied with Giovanni Andrea Fioroni (1716–1778) in Milan and with Father Giovanni Battista Martini in Bologna. In 1751 he was accepted as a member of the Accademia Filarmonica of Bologna. In 1756 he became Kapellmeister at Santa Maria Maggiore in Bergamo for a year . In 1758 he was a cellist with Count D'Anziano di Vercelli. In 1760 he succeeded Francesco Michele Montalto (1689-1760) as Kapellmeister at Turin Cathedral .

Gasparini composed mainly church music, including a stabat mater , which is performed occasionally. He also composed several operas, including Mitridate re di Ponto (Turin, 1767) based on a libretto by Vittorio Amedeo Cigna-Santi . This libretto was set to music by 14-year-old Mozart three years later for the Milan Carnival ( Mitridate, re di Ponto ).

Mozart copied the motet Adoramus te by Gasparini, whom he met in Turin in 1771. It was included in the Köchel directory under KV 327 appendix A. 10. The work could not be assigned to Gasparini until 1922 by the Salzburg cathedral music director Hermann Spies .

Works (selection)

  • Artaserse , dramma per musica; Libretto: Pietro Metastasio ; Premiere : December 26th, 1756 in the Teatro Regio Ducale in Milan
  • Mitridate re di Ponto , dramma per musica; Libretto: Vittorio Amedeo Cigna-Santi ; Premiere: January 31, 1767 in the Teatro Regio in Turin
  • Azione teatrale intermediata di danze in two parts (together with Giuseppe Sordella ); Premiere: June 13th 1769 in Turin
  • 17 fairs
  • Stabat Mater
  • other ecclesiastical works
  • 6 trii academici per 2 violini e violoncello , op.1 (around 1755)
  • 6 trii per 2 violini e violoncello (around 1760)
  • Concerto per violino
  • Concerto per clavicembalo or organo e archi
  • Sonata per organo

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Portrait of Gasparini on the parish pages of the Archdiocese of Cologne
  2. ↑ Walter Marzilli: entry in the Dictionnaire Biografico degli Italiani - Volume 52 (1999)
  3. ^ Artaserse (Quirino Gasparini) in the Corago information system of the University of Bologna , accessed on January 21, 2015.
  4. ↑ Mitridate re di Ponto (Quirino Gasparini) in the Corago information system of the University of Bologna , accessed on January 21, 2015.
personal data
SURNAME Gasparini, Quirino
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Gasparini, Don Quirico
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian composer and cellist
DATE OF BIRTH October 24, 1721
PLACE OF BIRTH Gandino near Bergamo
DATE OF DEATH September 23, 1778
Place of death Turin