Antonio Bertali

Antonio Bertali (* March 1605 in Verona, † April 17, 1669 in Vienna) was an Italian- Austrian composer and violinist.

Life

Antonio Bertali studied up to the minor orders in 1623 at the Akolythenschule of Verona. He received from the Director of Music Stefano Bernardi and a violinist named Francesco Lauro His musical education. As early as 1620 he often played in the " Accademia Filarmonica " of Verona, where he received a permanent job beginning 1624. As of April 1625, he joined the imperial service to the Vienna court orchestra, where he Ferdinand III. , Successor of Giovanni Valentini as Kapellmeister in 1649. In January 1631 he married at the Hofburg Chapel, the musician and chamber maid Maria Toppa (around 1617-1666 ). On 2 March 1654 Kaiser Bertali raised in the knightly nobility. He was buried in 1669 in Vienna Minoritenkirche.

Works (selection)

Bertali composed operas, oratorios and instrumental music. With his operas, he was instrumental in the consolidation of the Italian opera tradition in Vienna. About half of his extensive work has been missing in the collections of the Vienna Court Library and in the library of Kremsmünster numerous autographs and copies have been preserved from the hand of Bertali contemporaries Pavel Josef Vejvanovský.

Vowel

• Secular and religious cantatas, motets, including real Donna (1631 ) for the wedding celebration in 1631 of the future emperor with the Infanta of Spain.
• Le strage de gl'innocenti ( child murder in Bethlehem )
• Missa ratisbonensis ( 1636)
• Lamento della regina d' Inghilterra
• Requiem per Ferdinando II (1637 )
• More than 50 Introit

Operas

• L' inganno d' amore; 1653 Regensburg
• Theti favola dramatica; July 13, 1656 Vienna
• Il re Gilidoro favola; February 19, 1659 Vienna
• La magia delusa; June 4, 1660
• Gli Amori d' Apollo con Clizia; March 1, 1661 Vienna
• Il Ciro crescente 3 interludes to Il pastor fido; June 14, 1661 Park of the castle Laxenburg
• La Zenobia di Radamisto; November 18, 1662
• L' Alcindo; April 20, 1665 Vienna
• La contesa dell'aria e dell'acqua festa a cavallo; January 24, 1667 Vienna

Instrumental

• Sonata Leopoldus I.
• Thousand drams Sonata
• Ciaconna in C Major for Violin and B.C.

As well as numerous other sonatas and suites Sonatellas a 3, 4, 5, 6