Fortunato Chelleri

Fortunato Chelleri (also: basement or Kelleri ) (* May / June () 1690 in Parma, Italy, † December 11, 1757 in Kassel? ) Was Kapellmeister and composer of classical music.

Life

Chelleris father was a ausgewandeter from Germany music lover, his mother came from the Italian family of musicians Bazzaniu ( Bassani, see also Giovanni Battista Bassani ). After the early death of his parents he entered the household of his uncle Francesco Maria Bazzaniu in Piacenza. This made ​​Fortunato, who had already been a choirboy in his hometown, on to the musicians and composers. From 1708 Chelleri composed music for various northern Italian opera stage and stood among others in Barcelona, Florence and Venice in the service of changing nobleman.

1722 brought him the music fans and especially the new keyboard instruments ( fortepiano, fortepiano) fascinated Bamberg and Würzburg Prince- Bishop Johann Philipp Franz von Schönborn ( Prince-Bishop from 1719 to 1724 ) as Kapellmeister to Würzburg, coinciding with a native of Venice musician and composer Giovanni Benedetto Platti. After the death of Prince-Bishop in 1725 Chelleri was Kapellmeister of the Landgrave Charles of Hesse -Kassel in Kassel. He followed 1732-1734, his son and successor of Frederick I., who was also King of Sweden, to the court in Stockholm. Equipped with the title and the economic security of a privy councilor, he returned to Germany and forwards until his death in 1757 in Kassel, the private chapel of Frederick's brother William VIII, the country county initially managed in Kassel and later even Landgraf was.

Works

Early work, opera

  • L' Innocenza giustificata ( Premiere: Venice 1711)
  • La caccia in Aetolia ( Premiere: Ferrara 1715 ) ( The text book La Caccia in Aetolia Belisario Valeriano has been edited by George Frideric Handel as a libretto for the opera Atalanta.
  • Amalasunta

Later work

In its German and Swedish period after 1722 Chelleri composed only instrumental and church music, including however, a number of oratorios in Italian. From 1742 comes Chelleris single Cello Concerto, composed for Count Rudolf Franz get Erwein von Schönborn and as a manuscript in the Schönborn collection of music in Wiesentheid. Published in stand-alone pressure include compositions for keyboard instruments and six string symphonies. As musical scores, recordings

Discography

Phonograms are available:

  • Sinfonia in B flat major for Strings and Basso continuo
  • 6 Sonate di galanteria (Kassel, o.J. )
  • Beatae Mariæ Virginis, oratorio in 2 parts (Würzburg, 1723) [ reprint ed. v. Alejandro Garri, Garri Editions, Mülheim 2003 ]
  • Cello Concerto in G major ( 1742), WD 531 ( Gabetta, Capella Gabetta, "Il Progetto Vivaldi 3", 2013)
Charles I, Landgrave of Hesse-Kassel Frederick I of Sweden William VIII, Landgrave of Hesse-Kassel Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie Neue Deutsche Biographie Integrated Authority File
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