Egidio Duni

Egidio Duni Romoaldo ( born February 9, 1709 Matera ( Southern Italy), † July 11, 1775 in Paris ) was an Italian opera composer and is considered one of the founders of the French opéra comique.

Life

Egidio Duni was a son of Francesco Duni, the " Maestro di capelle " in Matera, who gave his sons first music lessons. From the age of nine, he studied in Naples at the Conservatorio di Santa Maria di Loreto and later at the Conservatorio della Pietà dei Turchini. When not secured the lesson applies to Francesco Durante, as mentioned in a 1775 publish eulogy.

Duni became known as the 26- year-old by his first opera Nerone, which was performed in 1735 in Rome and Giovanni Battista Pergolesi Olympics hit out of the field with her. Then he wrote for Naples, Venice, London and returned to extensive travels through Europe back to Naples. In 1748 he received from the Spanish Infante employment at the court of Parma. Here reigned before the French taste and so Duni, French opera began to write - first, the Opéra comique Ninette à la cour.

Their success led him in 1757 to move to Paris, where his lighter, more pleasing style corresponded exactly to the needs of the then French society. He brought an impressive series of 18 comic operas in the light style of the newer Neapolitan school of performance, which had extraordinary success, so Duni must be regarded as the real founder of the French comic opera.

The composer Antonio Duni (* 1700 in Matera; † after 1766 possibly in Schwerin ) was a brother of Egidio Duni. Egidio Duni's son, Jean -Pierre Duni (* 1759) was dedicated to the Princess de Poix, a collection of Trois Sonatas pour clavecin ou piano - forte avec du violon accomponpagnement.

Works (selection)

Italian operas

  • Nerone (Rome, 1735)
  • Adriano in Siria (1735-1736)
  • Giuseppe riconosciuto ( 1736)
  • La tirannide debellata ( 1736)
  • Demofoonte (London, 1737)
  • Abbandonata Didone ( 1739 )
  • Catone in Utica (1740 )
  • Bajazet ( 1743)
  • Antaserse (1744)
  • Ipermestra (1748 )
  • Ciro riconosciuto (1748 )
  • L' Olimpiade (Parma, 1755)
  • La buona figliuola (Parma, 1756 )
  • Alessandro nelle Indie
  • Adriano
  • Demetrio

French operas

  • Ninette à la cour (Parma, 1755)
  • La Chercheuse d'esprit (Paris, 1756 )
  • Le peintre amoureux de son modèle (Paris, 1757)
  • Le docteur Sangrado ( Saint Germain, 1758)
  • La fille mal gardée (Paris, 1758)
  • La veuve Indécise (Paris, 1759)
  • L'isle de foux (Paris, 1760)
  • Nina et Lindor (1761 )
  • Mazet (Paris, 1761)
  • La bonne fille (Paris, 1762)
  • Le retour au village (Paris, 1762)
  • La plaidreuse et le proces (Paris, 1763)
  • Le milicien (Versailles, 1763)
  • Les deux chasseurs et la laitière ( 1763)
  • Le rendez -vous (Paris, 1763)
  • La fée Urgèle ( Fontainebleau, 1765 )
  • L' école de la jeuness (Paris, 1765 )
  • La clochette (Paris, 1766 )
  • Les moissonneurs (Paris, 1768)
  • Les sabots (Paris, 1768)
  • Themire ( Fontainebleau, 1770)

Church Music

  • Gios re di Giuda ( Oratorio, 1749)
  • Giuseppe riconosciuto ( Oratorio, 1759)
  • Athalie ( oratorio, ? )
  • Le sacrifice d' Isaac ( Oratorio, 17? )
  • Fair ( five voices and orchestra, 17? )
  • Te Deum ( four voices and orchestra, 17? )
  • Litany ( four voices and orchestra, 17? )
  • Tantum ergo ( for soprano, alto, two violins and organ, 17? )

Instrumental music

  • 6 Trio Sonatas, op.1 (Rotterdam, 1738)
  • 30 Minuetti e contridanze (London, 1738)
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