Marco Uccellini

Marco Uccellini (* 1603 or 1610 in Forlimpopoli at Forli, † September 11, 1680 ibid ) was an Italian violinist, conductor and composer of the Baroque.

Life

After his training in Assisi in 1639, he moved to Modena. In 1641 he was given there, the musical directorship of Francesco I d' Este in 1647 and also the function of Kapellmeister at the San Geminianus Cathedral. He held until 1665 these items. After that he was Kapellmeister at the court of Ranuccio II Farnese in Parma, who had married Isabella d' Este. Its all there composed operas and ballets are lost.

Uccellini was also an important composer of instrumental music, leaving more than 300 works. In some of these works, he used the Scordatura, these works are among the first publications in which this technique was applied.

From the music he wrote for the two noble families, in whose service he was, did not get anything. Only the printed works allow for a music-historical classification. Here he plays an important role in the development of the violin sonata, while his early sonatas had in common with the works of Giovanni Maria Bononcini, Giovanni Battista Vitali or Maurizio Cazzati. Uccellini Sonatas Opp 4 and 5 achieved the highest technical level of development of violin playing, in front of the sonatas by Johann Heinrich Schmelzer and Heinrich Ignaz Franz Biber.

Works

Instrumentals

  • Sonata, symphony et correnti, a 2-4, bc, libro II ( 1639 )
  • Sonata, aria et correnti, a 2-3, bc libro III (1642 )
  • Sonata, correnti et arie, a 1-3, bc, op 4 (1645 )
  • Sonata, et canzoni, vn, bc, Opus 5 ( 1649)
  • Salmi, 1, 3 - 5vv, bc, concertante parte con instrumenti e parte senza, con Letanie della beata virgine, 5vv, bc, op 6 (1654 )
  • Ozio regio: compositioni armoniche sopra il violino e altri strumenti diversi, a 1-6, bc, libro VII (1660 )
  • Sinfonici concerti brevi e facili, a 1-4, Op 9 ( 1667)
  • Symphony boscareccie, vn, bc, 2 vn ad lib, Op 8 (Antwerp, 1669)

Operas and ballets

  • Le navi d' Enea; Ballet, Parma, 1673
  • Gli eventi di Filandro ad Edessa; Opera Parma, in the Collegio dei Nobili 1675
  • Giove Il d' elide fulminato; Ballet, Parma, 1677
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