Vincenzo Manfredini

Vincenzo Manfredini ( born October 22, 1737 Pistoia; † August 16, 1799 in Saint Petersburg ) was an Italian harpsichordist, composer and music theorist. (Name and details of life in Russian: Винченцо Манфредини (* 22 X 1737 Пистоя, близ Флоренции; † 5 (16 ) VIII 1799 Петербург ). )

Life

The son of composer Francesco Manfredini first studied with his father, later he continued his studies in Bologna Giacomo Antonio Perti in (1661-1756) and in Milan with Giovanni Andrea Fiorini (1716-1778) continued. End of 1757 or early 1758 he was accompanied by his elder brother Giuseppe Manfredini, a castrato who worked in the opera troupe, Giovanni Battista Locatelli, to Saint Petersburg and remained until 1769 at the Imperial Court, where he served as Kapellmeister. In 1762 he led there on his opera Olimpiade. Shortly thereafter, he was appointed Head of the Italian opera of St. Petersburg, he was also harpsichord teacher of Tsarevich Paul. 1769 he returned to Bologna with a pension and composed two operas: Armida after the famous libretto by Duranti (not Durandi ), premiered in May 1770, the Nuovo Teatro Pubblico di Bologna, and Artaserse, dramma per musica, premiered in January 1772 during the Carnival in Venice at the Teatro San Benedetto. Soon after he left, however, from the Opera and devoted himself to music lessons and especially the music theory. Manfredinis first book Regole armoniche ( rules of harmony, Venice 1775) was later used by the composer Stepan Degtyaryov (* 1766, † May 5, 1813 ) translated. In addition, Manfredini published in 1776 a collection of symphonies and string quartets in 1781 more.

After the accession of Paul I who asked him to return to Russia. In September 1798 he arrived in St. Petersburg, but died a few months later.

Works

Manfredini composed operas, ballets, cantatas, church music ( musica sacra ), symphonies, concertos, string quartets and chamber music, including the following:

Operas for the Russian court

  • Semiramide riconosciuta ( Узнанная Семирамида ), dramma per musica libretto by Pietro Metastasio (1760, Oranienbaum )
  • La musica trionfante pastoral, Libretto: L. Lazzaroni (1761, St. Petersburg )
  • L' Olimpiade ( Олимпиада ), libretto by Pietro Metastasio ( 24 November 1762, Moscow); which 6 arias [ RISM M 344 ], and two arias in Recueil d' airs choisis lyrique (Paris 1772)
  • La pupilla (1763, St. Petersburg )
  • La finta ammalata, interludes, Libretto: Carlo Goldoni (1763, St. Petersburg )
  • Carlo Magno ( Карл Великий ) Libretto: L. Lazzaroni ( 24 November 1763, St. Petersburg, revision: 1764, St. Petersburg )

Other operas

  • Armida, libretto by Jacopo Duranti (not Giacomo; Durandi o ) after the poem Gerusalemme Liberata by Torquato Tasso (1762, Moscow, 1770, Bologna, Teatro Nuovo Pubblico )
  • Artaserse, libretto by Pietro Metastasio (1772, Venice, Teatro San Benedetto )

Sacred Music

  • Requiem, 1762, St. Petersburg
  • Esther, Oratorio, 1792, Venice
  • Messa funebre for 4 voices
  • Laudate Dominum for Soprano, Choir, Orchestra and Basso continuo

Other works

  • La pace degli eroi, cantata libretto: Lazzaroni ( June 1762, St. Petersburg )
  • Il consiglio delle muse, Serenata, libretto by Giovanni Battista Locatelli (1763, Moscow; uncertain )
  • Le rivali, cantata libretto: Lazzaroni ( 1765, St. Petersburg )
  • Duets
  • Canon
  • Arias

Ballets

  • Amour et psyché ( Амур и Психея ) ( October 1762, Moscow)
  • Les amants du réchappés naufrage ( 1766, St. Petersburg )
  • Le sculpteur de Carthage ( 1766, St. Petersburg )
  • La constance récompensée (1767, Moscow)
  • Pygmalion (1762, Saint Petersburg ) ( балеты " Пигмалион " 1762 Петербург ); ( uncertain )

Instrumental works

  • Harpsichord Concerto ( The Hague & Amsterdam [ RISM M 350 ], London [ RISM M 348, M 349 ]); modern edition: A. Toni, Milan 1957
  • 6 Sonatas for Harpsichord, 1765 [ RISM M 352 ]; modern edition: A. M. Pernafelli, 1975
  • 6 symphonies, Venice 1776 [ RISM M 345, M 346 ]
  • 14 Preludes for harpsichord, as a Part of: armoniche Regole, see below
  • 6 Quartetti for 2 Violins, Viola and Violoncello [ RISM M 351 ]
  • Fugue for Harpsichord

Writings on Music

  • Regole armoniche ( Гармонические правила ), also called tract Regole armoniche cited: 1st edition: Regole armoniche o siene precetti ragionati by apprendere i principj della musica, il portamento della mano, e l' accompagnamento del basso sopra gli strumenti da tasto, come l' organo, il cembalo ec, . Dedicate a Sua Altezza Imperiale Paul Petrovicz ... Appresso G. Zerletti (Venice), 1775, 78 pp.
  • 2nd edition: Regole armoniche o Sieno, Precetti ragionati by apprender la musica. 2nd ed, corr. ed accresciuta, Adolfo Cesare (Venice), 1797, 207 pp.
  • Facsimile: Vincenzo Manfredini, Regole armoniche. A facsimile of the 1775 Venice edition, Series Monuments of music and music literature in facsimile, Broude, New York 1966, 78 pp.
  • Russian translation: Stepan Degtyaryov ( Степан Аникиевич Дегтярев ), " Правила гармонические и мелодические для обучения всей музыке ", Санкт - Петербург, 1805.
  • Vincenzo Manfredini [ and Esteban de Arteaga ], Difesa della musica moderna e de ' suoi celebri Esecutori, Stamperia Trentino di Carlo, Bologna 1788, in -8. 207 pp.
  • Facsimile: Difesa della musica moderna e de ' suoi celebri Esecutori, series Bibliotheca musica bononiensis, n 73, Bologna, Ed. Forni 1972, 207 pp.
  • English Translation: A critical translation from the Italian of Vincenzo Manfredini 's Difesa della musica moderna / In defense of modern music ( 1788), translated by Patricia Howard, E. Mellen Press, Lewiston, NY 2002, 166 pp.
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