Giovanni Andrea Bontempi

Giovanni Andrea Bontempi, actually GA Angelini (* 1624 in Perugia, † July 1, 1705 in BRUFA (part of Torgiano) at Perugia ) was an Italian castrato, music writer and composer.

Life

Angelini named after his guardian Cesare Bontempi. After his training in Rome as a student of Virgilio Mazzocchi, he joined in 1643 as Kastratensänger the chapel of San Marco in Venice at. 1650 he was appointed Johann Georg I as a composer and singer to go into the chapel of Elector. In 1657 he became Vice-Kapellmeister of the court orchestra in Dresden under Heinrich Schütz. In 1664 he became an architect and master machinist to the court theater of Johann Georg II and became the inspettore the Dresden comedy house. Three years later Bontempi was retired and spent the years 1668-1671 in Italy, where he worked as a composer and writer, but also as a historian and architect, was more active. In 1680 he retired to private life and lived until his death on his estate near Perugia.

Bontempi created three operas, an oratorio and other sacred music. In addition, he has written music theory works. He and his co- conductor Marco Giuseppe Peranda were the creators of the first fully preserved opera in German language. Your jointly composed musical spectacle of the Dafne was premiered in 1672 at the newly built Dresden opera house on mountain pocket of the Saxon Elector Johann Georg II.

1697 he was admitted because of his merits in the perugianische Accademia degli Insensati Historia dell ' Origine dei Sassoni.

Work

• Nova quatuor vocibus componendi methodus ( theory of composition ) (1660 Dresden)
• Il Paride (Opera in five acts ) ( November 3, 1662 in Dresden )
• Life and Martyrdom of St. Emiliano ( Oratorio ) (1662 Dresden)
• Musical spectacle of the Dafne ( opera ) ( February 9, 1672 in Dresden )
• Jupiter and Jo ( opera ) ( January 16, 1673 in Dresden ); also with Marco Giuseppe Peranda.