Stanislao Mattei

Padre Stanislao Mattei ( born February 10, 1750 in Bologna, † May 17, 1825 ) was an Italian composer, music theorist and music teacher of the 18th century.

Life

Stanislao Mattei occurred in 1765 in the Minorit and became a pupil of Giovanni Battista Martini. 1776, he was officially succeeded him as conductor at the Basilica of San Petronio. In 1799 he became a member of the Accademia Filarmonica, whose Principe he was in the years 1803, 1806 and 1818. He was a teacher at the Liceo Musicale di Bologna (now Conservatorio Giovanni Battista Martini), where, among other Donizetti and Rossini were his pupils. The Liceo Musicale, he bequeathed his entire library in 1816. Mattei in 1824 was admitted as a member of the Académie des beaux -arts, royal at the Institute de France.

Works

Mattei composed numerous exhibitions and an extensive work on church music (over 300 works ), as well as cantatas, oratorios and Passions, partly after libretti by Metastasio, as well as secular arias. Its 27 mostly one-movement symphonies operas created 1786-1804. Matteis work remains unpublished and largely unexplored.

As a music theorist, he wrote the message " Practica d' accompagnamento sopra bassi numerati, e più voci contrapunti a sulla scala ascendente e discendente Maggiore e Minore, various con fughe a 4 ea 8" in 1788 and a second edition by Schott, Mainz, Germany in 1826.