Catterino Cavos

Catterino Cavos ( Katerino Albertovich Cavos, Russian Катерино Альбертович Кавос, scientific transliteration Katerino Al'bertovic Cavos; Catarino Camillo Cavos, also: Kavos, born October 30, 1775 in Venice, † 28 Apriljul / May 10 1840greg in Santa.. Petersburg) was a Russian composer of Italian origin.

The son of the director of the Teatro La Fenice, Alberto Giovanni Cavos completed his musical education in his hometown and composed at the age of twelve years, a cantata, which was performed during a visit of the Grand Duke Leopold. The age of fourteen he became organist at the Basilica di San Marco.

In 1797 he came up with an Italian theater troupe to Saint Petersburg, after its dissolution, he got a job at the Imperial Theatre. Initially he compose vaudeville for a French troupe (including Soliman second and Les Trois Bossus ), he was the bandmaster of the 1803 Italian and Russian opera and also a teacher at the Collegium of St. Catherine. Since 1811 he has taught at the Smolny Institute.

As a conductor Cavos made ​​known to the Russian public with the operas of Cherubini, Étienne Méhul, Carl Maria von Weber and others. In 1836 he conducted the world premiere of Mikhail Glinka's opera A Life for the Tsar to a libretto by Yegor Fyodorovich of roses, which he himself had twenty years earlier set to music - he admitted Glinka the higher artistic rank.

Self- composed Cavos more than thirty operas, ballets and other music for the stage also. Special, who did much to the training of Russian opera singers and singer. From his school singers like Anna Jakovlevna Worobjowa, Elizabeth Semyonovna Sandunowa, Ekaterina Semenova, Vasily Mikhailovich Samoilov, Grigory Fyodorovich Klimowski, Pyotr Vasilyevich Slow and the famous bass-baritone Osip Petrov Afanasievich emerged.

His son Albert Katerinovich and his son Caesar Albertovich became known as the architect, and his son Ivan Katerinovich led the Italian Opera in St. Petersburg.

Works

• L' Alchimiste, opera, 1798-1803
• L' Intrigue dans les ruines, opera, 1798-1803
• Le Mariage d' Aubigny, opera, 1798-1803
• Le trois Bossus, opera, 1798-1803
• Soliman second, ou Les trois Sultanes ( after Charles Simon Favart Verskomödie same name ), Vaudeville, 1798
• The Dnieper Mermaid ( libretto by Nikolai Stepanovich Krasnopolski by Ferdinand Kauer The Donauweibchen ), comic opera fantastic 1804
• Prince Invisible, or Licharda the wizard ( after Jean -Baptiste- Auguste Hapdé: Le Prince invisible, ou Arlequin pro tea ), great comic fantastic opera, 1805
• The Love Letter, comic opera, 1806
• He flees from the own bride, comic opera with choruses and ballets, 1806
• Ilya the distance ( Libretto: Ivan Krylov ), great comic fantastic opera with choruses, ballets and battles, 1806
• Rusalka, comic fantastic opera, 1807
• Three hunchbacked brothers ( libretto: Aristarchus Vladimirovich Luknitzki ), 1808
• The nerds, or the poetry and music of madmen ( Libretto: Pyotr Nikolayevich Kobiakow ) by Gaetano Rossi's libretto for Johann Simon Mayr's farce Che originali, 1809
• The Cossack poet, anecdotal Opera Vaudeville, 1812
• The Imaginary Invisible, or clutter in the pub (after Carl Ludwig Costenoble: Mr. Simon Platt head, the Invisible ), comic opera, 1813
• Suliman the Second, or the three sultans ( after Charles Simon Favart: Soliman second, ou Les trois Sultan ), comic opera with ballet, 1813
• The Cossacks on the Rhine, opera, 1814
• Bražkin the tenant, or the sale of the village, comic opera, 1815
• Ivan Susanin, historical opera, 1815
• The ruins of Babylon, or triumph and fall of Giafar al Barmeki (after René -Charles Guilbert de Pixérécourt: Les Ruines de Babylone, ou Giafar he Zaida ), historical opera, 1818
• Dobrynja Nikitic, or the haunted castle, fantastic opera, 1818
• Pourceaugnac of good-for- nothing, or pumpernickel Rochus in a new guise, Christmas Vaudeville, 1819
• The magic drum, or The benevolent Dervish ( by Emanuel Schikaneder: The benevolent Dervish or magic drum and cap and bells ), comic opera fantastic 1819
• New tangle, or The Brides of foreign brides, comic opera, 1820
• La Bayadère, opera, 1820
• The moon -walker, opera Vaudeville, 1821
• Surprises, or potpourri and everything in necessities, in 1821
• Naina, or The Enchanted Rosenstock, fantastic opera, 1822
• The Firebird or The Adventures of Tsarevich Levsil, ( libretto by Mikhail Stepanovich Lebedev ), fantastic opera Act 3, 1822
• Svetlana, or hundreds of years in one day, fantastic ballad operas, 1822
• The Hermit of the wild mountain (after Amable Vilain de Saint- Hilaire: Le Solitaire, ou L' Exile du Mont Sauvage ), romantic opera, 1823
• The mountains of Piedmont, or the blasted Devil's Bridge ( after Jean Baptiste Augustin Hapdé: Le Pont du Diable ), opera, 1825

• Conductor
• Composer
• Russian
• Born in 1775
• Died in 1840
• Man