Sebastiano Moratelli

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Sebastiano Moratelli (* around 1640 in Vicenza ; † 1706 in Heidelberg ) was an Italian singer (alto) and baroque composer .

Life

From 1657 Moratelli sang as an alto at St. Mark's Basilica and on opera stages in Venice. The emperor appointed him around 1660, he probably heard him in Trieste in Vienna , where he began his service as a chamber musician . He was also the music master of the Empress Eleonora Gonzaga and her daughter Archduchess Maria Anna Josepha. When the Archduchess married the future Elector Johann Wilhelm , Moratelli moved to the Düsseldorf court at the behest of the Empress , to which he belonged from 1679 until his death.

Correspondence between the Elector and Emperor Leopold I shows that he wrote dramatic music ( operas and operettas ) for the Palatinate court for the Düsseldorf Carnival in 1681 . In 1685 and 1689 he traveled to Vienna and was appointed Kapellmeister in 1687 at the latest . Because of poor health, he was increasingly represented by his younger colleague and later successor Johann Hugo von Wilderer from 1696 . In October 1705 the elector sent him to Heidelberg to relax, but there he died. His contemporary Giorgio Maria Rapparini mentions in his "Portrait of the Elector" that Moratelli composed various operas and serenades and praises him primarily for the naturalness and expressiveness of his recitatives .

On the basis of Rapparini's libretti , five to six operas can be ascribed to him, but none of them have survived. In the music collection of Count Toerring-Jettenbach, a deposit of the Bavarian State Library in Munich , at least the score of Moratelli's Serenata “La Faretra Smarrita” has been rediscovered.

Sebastiano Moratelli was a member of the Accademia Filarmonica in Bologna, which held a commemorative mass for him on October 26, 1706.

Works

  • Didone (GM Rapparini), dramma per musica (July 24, 1688 Düsseldorf)
  • Damone E Pithia: Drama per Musica; Da Rapresentarsi Ne Giorni di Carnevale Avanti La Serenissima Elettrice Palatina Per Commando Del Serenissimo Elettore Palatino / posto in musica dal sig. Sebastiano Moratelli. Text by Giorgio Maria Rapparini. - Dusseldorff, 1694. Digitized edition of the University and State Library Düsseldorf
  • I giochi olimpici, ovvero Che fingendo si prova un vero affetto (GM Rapparini), dramma per musica (July 26, 1694 Düsseldorf)
  • Erminia Al Campo: Trattenimento Musicale; Rappresentato Ne 'Giorni Carnevaleschi Per Commando Del AS Del Duca Di Giuliers Prencipe Ellettorale Palatino. Et alla medesima Altezza consacrato / Posto in Musica dal Sign D. Sebastiano Moratelli. (Text: Giorgio Maria Rapparini). Digitized edition of the University and State Library Düsseldorf
  • Il fabbro pittore. Drama per musica. Da Rappresentarsi ne giorni carnevaleschi avanti le Serenissime Elletrici Palatine per commando del Serenissimo Elletore Palatino / posto in musica. Dal. sig. D. Sebastiano Moratelli, Mastro di capella, Cosigliere Ecclesiastico di SAE e musico di camera di SMC con le Arie per li Balli De. Sig. Giorgio Kraft. Düsseldorff left 20th Genari 1695 per Gio. Christiano Schleuter, Stampatore. (The blacksmith as a painter. Opera. Performed at a carnival event with Her Highness Electress of the Palatinate on the orders of His Highness the Elector of the Palatinate by the Kapellmeister of His Highness and Head of the Opera House with arias by Georg Kraft . Düsseldorff on January 20, 1695 Johann Christian Schleuter, printer). Original print in Italian, text only without notes

literature

  • The court music of Jan Wellems 1679–1716. A historical-genealogical view with tables of origin and descendants. Edited by Alfred Strahl. Düsseldorf family customer. Special issue October 1988.
  • Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians , Vol. 12.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Cf. Robert Münster, history and content of the three music collections, in: Gertraut Haberkamp / Barbara Zuber (ed.): The music manuscripts of Duke Wilhelm of Bavaria, the Count of Toerring-Jettenbach and the Prince Fugger of Babenhausen. Thematic catalog (catalogs of Bayerischer Musiksammlungen 13), Munich 1988, XXVf.
personal data
SURNAME Moratelli, Sebastiano
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian singer (alto) and baroque composer
DATE OF BIRTH around 1640
PLACE OF BIRTH Vicenza
DATE OF DEATH 1706
Place of death Heidelberg