Francesco Maria Veracini
Francesco Maria Veracini ( born 1 February 1690 in Florence, † October 31, 1768 ) was an Italian violinist and composer.
Life
Veracini was the son of a pharmacist and learned to play the violin by his uncle Antonio Veracini with whom he often gave concerts. 1711 Veracini wrote a oboes, trumpets and strings accompanied Violin Concerto, with the coronation feast in honor of Emperor Charles VI. was listed in the Frari church. The young Giuseppe Tartini heard 1712 Veracini game for the first time and was so impressed that he retired for a time from active musical life, to devote himself to improving his own violin playing, especially the clean sheet guide before he appeared publicly again.
1714 Veracini lived for a time in London, where he afforded as interludes in various operas at the Kings Theatre 's violin solos, where he among other things, Georg Friedrich Handel should have known. 1715 he spent some time in Dusseldorf in the service of the Elector Johann Wilhelm and returned to Venice in 1716. Here he created his six lavish orchestral and harmonic boldly conceived overtures that his reputation as a composer again very elevated, and here he devoted a violin sonata Opus the Crown Prince Frederick Augustus, son of the King of Saxony. In 1721 he dedicated to the Prince another sonata opus. The prince, who was a great connoisseur of music itself, Veracini brought in his Dresden Royal, so he performed chamber music, played with him and took care of the appointing Italian singer for the Dresden Opera House. Over time, a dispute erupted over the outrageously expensive Italian operas with composer Johann David Heinichen and the castrato Senesino, in which Veracini jumped with fury from the window of the second stick, possibly sustain a hip fracture and who healed poorly why he limped ever since.
Back in his hometown of Florence in 1723, he played church music and composed an oratorio; during this time he made a bad reputation and earned the nickname of " capo pazzo " ( madman ). The Veracini regarded as eccentric and arrogant named the two best of his ten violins of Jacob Stainer " Peter & Paul ".
In 1733 he moved back to London to perform there in many concerts. He wrote many of his famous contemporaries there several operas, including " Adriano in Siria ", " La Clemenza di Tito" and 1738 " Rosalinda " and in 1744, the oratorio " L' errore di Salomono ". He left in 1744, the city whose music scene was now dominated by Handel's music.
On the journey he was victim of a shipwreck in the English Channel, he survived miraculously, two of his violins were lost. He returned to Florence, where he was Assistant Conductor at several churches where he fully concentrated on church music. In his last years he had many appearances as a violinist and conductor.
While Veracini followed the prevailing taste in his violin concertos, his music -historical legacy lies primarily in the virtuoso sonatas op 2
Some works
Instrumental
Operas
All operas were premiered in London's Kings theater.
- Adriano in Siria ( 1735)
- La Clemenza di Tito (1737)
- Partenio ( 1738)
- Rosalinda (1741 )