Attilio Ariosti

Attilio Ariosti ( born November 5, 1666 Bologna; † August 1729 in London) was an Italian composer.

Life

Attilio Ariosti, who came from an illegitimate branch of the noble family of Bologna Ariosti, received vocal, violin, organ and composition lessons from unspecified teachers. He entered 1688 in the monastery of the Servite Order in Bologna, where he completed his public vows on July 28, 1689. In May 1692, he was consecrated a deacon and in the same year, the organist at S. Maria dei Servi, the church of his order. Due to the composition of his first oratorio (La passione 1693 in Modena and S. Radegonda reina di Francia, 1694, Bologna), he received first contacts with the world of theater.

His first opera was performed Tirsi 1697 in Venice. From 1697 to 1703 he was released from Duke Francis IV Gonzaga of Mantua for work as a court composer at the court of Sophie Charlotte, Lietzenburg, near Berlin. Here he composed the opera La fede ne tradimenti, L' inganno, vinto della costanza and Mars and Irene. He also wrote on the farm several arias, cantatas and chamber concerts. In 1703 he had to leave because of a palpable conflict with the Oberhof Kapellmeister Castle Lietzenburg. After that, he was briefly employed at the court of Anjou. Between 1703 and 1709 he was in the service of Emperor Joseph I, the Austrian General Agent for Italy.

After 1715 enjoyed great success in Paris and London, which were only trumped by Georg Friedrich Händel. He was with Handel and Bononcini member of the Royal Academy of Music, whose job it was to supply the London aristocracy with Italian operas. The importance Ariosti is emphasized by the 1737 by Jean -Philippe Rameau made ​​utterance with respect to a passage of the opera Coriolano, which he saw as an outstanding example of enharmonic composing. The viola d' amore was his favorite instrument, he played this on July 12, 1716 between the acts of the performance of Handel's " Amadigi di Gaula ," the first known appearance of the Hallensers in London.

His younger brother Giovanni Battista Ariosti (* 1668) was also a member of the Servite and music teacher, he left behind a 1686 printed textbook, Modo facile di suonare il SISTRO for a kind of chime.

Works

Ariosti wrote some 25 operas, the models for which the opera Jean-Baptiste Lully and later the opera Alessandro Scarlatti were initially.

  • Operas Tirsi, in collaboration with Antonio Lotti, and Antonio Caldara, libretto by Apostolo Zeno (Venice 1696 )
  • Erfile, libretto by Giambattista Neri (Venice 1697 )
  • Atys o L' inganno vinto dalla costanza, rural drama, libretto by Ortensio Mauro (Berlin 1700)
  • La fede ne ' tradimenti, libretto by Girolamo Gigli (Berlin 1701)
  • Le Fantome Amoreux, one-act opera, libretto by Ortensio Mauro (Berlin 1701)
  • La più di Ercole gloriosa fatica, libretto by Pietro Antonio Bernardoni (Vienna 1703)
  • Mars and Irene, Singspiel libretto by Christian Reuter ( Berlin 1703)
  • Il bene dal male (Vienna 1704)
  • I gloriosi presagi di Scipione Africano, libretto by Donato Cupeda (Vienna 1704)
  • Marte placato, libretto by Pietro Antonio Bernardoni (Vienna 1704)
  • Il Danubio consolato, libretto by Pietro Antonio Bernardoni (Vienna 1707)
  • La gara delle Antiche eroine ne ' Campi Elisi, libretto by Silvio Stampiglia (Vienna 1707)
  • Amor tra nemici, libretto by Pietro Antonio Bernardoni (Berlin 1708 as Almahide London 1710)
  • La Placidia, libretto by Pietro Antonio Bernardoni (Vienna 1709)
  • Tito Manilo, libretto by Nicola Francesco Haym possibly (London 1717)
  • Caio Marzio Coriolano, libretto by Nicola Francesco Haym, after Pietro Pariati (London 1723)
  • Il Vespasian, libretto by Nicola Francesco Haym, after Giulio Cesare Corradi (London 1724)
  • Aquilio Consolo - attributed by Friedrich Chrysander Ariosti (London 1724)
  • Artaserse, libretto by Nicola Francesco Haym, after Apostolo Zeno and Pietro Pariati (London 1724)
  • Dario, libretto by Francesco Silvani (London 1725)
  • Lucio Vero, imperator di Roma, libretto by Apostolo Zeno (London 1727)
  • Teuzzone, libretto by Apostolo Zeno (London 1727)
  • Ballet Music La Festa del Hymeneo, libretto by Ortensio Mauro (Berlin 1700)
  • Oratories La Passione, libretto by Cam. Arnoldi (Modena 1693, Vienna 1694 )
  • Radegonde (Santa Rodegonda ), regina di Francia, libretto by Giambattista Taroni (Bologna 1694 )
  • Le profezie di Eliseo nell'assedio di Samaria, libretto by Giambattista Neri (Bologna 1704)
  • La madre de Maccabei (Vienna 1704)
  • Nabucodonosor, libretto by Pietro Antonio Bernardoni (Bologna 1706)
  • Instrumental music Divertimenti da camera for violin and cello ( 1695, Bologna )
  • 57 sets for Viola d' amore, which appeared under the title of " Recueil de Pièces pour la Viol d' Amour ". The only existing source is a copy of the Swedish composer Johan Helmich Roman, who studied from 1716 to 1721 in London, ie at the time when Ariosti stayed there. The copy is now in the Royal Music Library in Stockholm.
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