Antonio Maria Mazzoni

Antonio Maria Mazzoni ( born January 4, 1717 Bologna, † December 8, 1785 ) was an Italian composer and singer.

Life

Mazzoni came from a humble background. He studied in his native city of music and trained as a singer. He made himself a name as an opera composer and was a member of the Accademia Filarmonica. He lived in the episode as a conductor in Bologna, but also undertook repeatedly traveling abroad, where his operas were performed with success. So he worked at the court of Lisbon, where at the Teatro do Tejo were two of his stage works successfully. As a refugee from the effects of the earthquake of November 1, 1755 he came to Madrid, where he composed for the Spanish court. The Court Opera Carlo Broschi commissioned the setting of the libretto Il re pastore by Pietro Metastasio, the 1756 listed as '' Aminta '' successful. Following his stay in Madrid, he went for a commitment to Saint Petersburg, but remained Bologna center of his life. He was in his native city of the recognized musicians.

Apart from his operas have been handed down to him numerous operas and oratorios of Solfeggien, sketches. He wrote in a catchy, easy- barrel union style.

Works

  • Siroe, re di Persia, 1746 in Fano
  • L' Issipile, 1747 in Macerata
  • La Didone abbandonata, 1753 in Bologna
  • Il Demofoonte 1754 in Parma
  • Antigono 1755 in Lisbon
  • La Clemenza di Tito ( libretto by Pietro Metastasio ), 1755 in Lisbon

( The score was published: Lisboa:. Luis Francisco Of Ameno (trad. Fernando Alvim Lucas, pseud do Impressor ), 1755 Lisboa. Manoel Antonio Monteiro Of, 1761. )

  • Aminta ( Il re pastore ) ( libretto by Metastatio ), 1756 in Madrid
  • Iphigenia in Tauris, 1756 in Treviso
  • Il re pastore, 1757 in Bologna
  • Il viaggiatore ridicolo, 1757 in Parma
  • Arianna e Teseo, 1758 in Naples, Teatro di San Carlo
  • L' Eumene, 1759 in Turin, Teatro Regio
  • Le stravaganze del caso, 1760 in Bologna
  • L' astuto ciarlatano, 1760 in Bologna
  • Adriano in Siria, 1760 in Venice, Teatro di San Giovanni Crisostomo
  • Il mercante fallito, 1762 in Rome, Teatro della Pace
  • Nitteti, 1764 in Naples, Teatro di San Carlo
  • L' Inglese in Italia, 1769 in Bologna

Literature and portrait

  • Manuel Carlos de Brito, Opera in Portugal in the Eighteenth Century, in: Journal of the American Musicological Society, Vol 44, No. 2 ( Summer, 1991), pp. 332-343
  • Sterling A. Stoudemire, Metastasio in Spain, in: Hispanic Review, vol 9, no. 1, Crawford Memorial Number (Jan., 1941), pp. 184-191

A portrait Mazzonis found in the Civico Museo Bibliografico Musicale in Bologna ( unknown painter of the 18th century, picture no. 107)

  • Italian composer
  • Composer ( Baroque)
  • Composer ( classical)
  • Singer
  • Italian
  • Person (Bologna)
  • Born in 1717
  • Died in 1785
  • Man
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