Tommaso Giordani

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Tommaso Giordani (Giordano) (* around 1730 in Naples , † February 23, 1806 in Dublin ) was an Italian composer.

Life

Tommaso Giordani came from a family of musicians. His father was the impresario Giuseppe Giordani (also Giordano; * around 1695 Naples, † after 1762, probably in London - and not Carmine Giordani). A younger brother was the opera composer Giuseppe Giordani , known as "Giordanello".

Tommaso Giordani was educated in Naples and moved to London with his family in 1753 . After three years he brought out his first comic operas at the Royal Opera House . In 1762 he appeared as a singer at the King's Theater in London's Haymarket and then worked in London and Dublin as an opera singer and music teacher. In 1783 he founded an opera company in Dublin which was unsuccessful. Interrupted by a few stays in London, he remained in Dublin as a composer, singer, singing teacher, conductor and teacher until his death.

Works

In addition to more than 20 operas for London and Dublin, Tommaso Giordani wrote numerous pieces for pianoforte, sonatas for violin, guitar or flute and pianoforte, trios for violin, flute and figured bass, quartets (mostly string quartets, some also with flute or piano), 6 harpsichord quintets , Pianoforte concerts, flute concerts, practice pieces for piano, a high mass, a te deum , an oratorio and chants. His style continued that of Johann Christian Bach .

Works with opus number

  • Op. 1: 6 Trios a Flute , Alto et Violoncello (Berlin, 1775)
  • Op. 2: 6 Quartetto concertante a deux Violons, Alto et Basse (Paris)
  • Op. 3: 3 Quartettes pour le Clavecin , Flûte, Violon et Violoncello (Frankfurt am Main)
  • Op. 4: 6 Sonatas for the Harpsichord , Piano Forte or Organ with an Accompanyment for a Violin (London)
  • Op. 8: 6 quartetti for 2 violins, viola and cello (1775)
  • Op. 12: New edition of Op. 1 (London)
  • Op. 14: 6 Concertos for the Piano-Forte or Harpsichord (London, 1776)
  • Op. 18: 6 Duo pour deux violoncelles (Paris)
  • Op. 19: 6 Concertos for a German Flute , two Violins and Bass (London)
  • Op. 20: The Hermit, a favorite English Ballad by Dr. Beattie , set to Music with an Accompanyment for the Piano Forte or Harp (London, 1778)
  • Op. 23: 6 Concertos for the Harpsichord or Piano Forte, with Accompaniments (London)
  • Op. 24: 6 Sonates pour le Clavecin ou le Forte-Piano with Accompagnement d'un Violon ou une Flutte (Paris)
  • Op. 25: 12 Progressive Lessons for the Harpsichord, Piano Forte or Organ, composed for the Improvement of young Practitioners (London, 1780)
  • Op. 30: 3 Sonatas for the Piano-Forte or Harpsichord with obligato Accompaniments for the Flute or Violin, and Viola de Gamba or Tenor (London, 1782 or 1784)
  • Op. 33: 14 Preludes et [8] Points d'Orgue dans differens Tons, pour le Forte-Piano or le Clavecin (Paris; Dublin)
  • Op. 35: 6 Sonatas for the Piano Forte with an Accompaniment for a Violin (London, 1794)

Further works (without opus number)

  • 6 quintets for 2 violins, viola, cello and harpsichord (manuscript, c. 1771)
  • 6 Sonatinas for the Piano-Forte or Harpsichord, composed in an easy familiar style for the use of young performers (London, 1783).

literature

  • Alfred Baumgartner: Propylaea world of music. The composers; a lexicon . Propylaen-Verlag, Berlin 1989, ISBN 3-549-07830-7 (5 vols., Here especially vol. 2, p. 477).
  • WJ Lawrence: Tommaso Giordani . In: The Musical Antiquary , Vol. 2, 1910/11

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Clive Unger-Hamilton, Neil Fairbairn, Derek Walters; German arrangement: Christian Barth, Holger Fliessbach, Horst Leuchtmann, et al .: The music - 1000 years of illustrated music history . Unipart-Verlag, Stuttgart 1983, ISBN 3-8122-0132-1 , p. 89 .
personal data
SURNAME Giordani, Tommaso
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Giordano, Tommaso
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian composer
DATE OF BIRTH around 1730
PLACE OF BIRTH Naples
DATE OF DEATH February 23, 1806
Place of death Dublin