Antonio Salvi

Antonio Salvi ( born January 17, 1664 Lucignano, Italy, † May 21, 1724 in Florence ) was an Italian librettist.

Life

Salvi was a doctor at the ducal court in Florence in the main profession. From 1694 he wrote librettos for theaters in Livorno and Florence; 1701-1710 were seven of his works in the villa of Prince Ferdinando de ' Medici in Pratolino (whose Lieblingslibrettist Salvi was ) listed. After the death of Ferdinando Salvi in 1713 extended its sphere of activity to cover cities outside of Tuscany such as Rome, Reggio Emilia, Turin, Venice and Munich. His libretti were set to music by the most famous composers of his time, including Scarlatti, Vivaldi and Handel.

Style

Salvi's works are characterized by simplicity of style, shape and regularity of the emotionality of the content. In part, this reflects the influence of the French theater; Edited Salvi et al of Molière.

Works (selection)

• Astianatte ( 1701), set to music by Giacomo Antonio Perti, inter alia, Antonio Maria Bononcini, Francesco Gasparini, Leonardo da Vinci, Giovanni Battista Bononcini and Niccolò Jommelli
• Arminio (1703), set to music, inter alia, by Alessandro Scarlatti, Antonio Caldara, Carlo Francesco Pollarolo, Johann Adolph Hasse, Georg Friedrich Händel Baldassare Galuppi and
• Ginevra Principessa di Scozia ( 1708), set to music by Giacomo Antonio Perti, inter alia, and Antonio Vivaldi; under the title of Ariodante by Carlo Francesco Pollarolo, Georg Friedrich Handel (here) and Georg Christoph Wagenseil
• Dionisio Re di Porto Gallo ( 1707), set to music by George Frideric Handel as Sosarme
• Berenice ( 1709), set to music by George Frideric Handel
• Rodelinda Regina de ' Longobardi (1710 ), set to music by Giacomo Antonio Perti, inter alia, Georg Friedrich Handel (here) and Carl Heinrich Graun
• Lucio Papirio (1714 ), set to music, inter alia, by Francesco Gasparini, Luca Antonio Predieri, Leonardo Leo and Nicola Antonio Porpora
• Il pazzo per politica ( 1717), music by Luca Antonio Predieri and Tomaso Albinoni (as Eumene )
• Scanderbeg (1718 ), set to music by Antonio Vivaldi
• Adelaide ( 1722), set to music, inter alia, by Pietro Torri, Nicola Antonio Porpora, George Frideric Handel (as Lothario ) and Antonio Vivaldi