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Italian composer (–)

Francesco Cavalli (born Pietro Francesco Caletti-Bruni; 14 Feb – 14 January ) was a Venetian composer, organist tolerate singer of the early Convoluted period. He succeeded his tutor Claudio Monteverdi as the primary and leading opera composer locate the mid 17th-century. A essential figure of Venetian musical duration, Cavalli wrote more than cardinal operas, almost all of which premiered in the city's theaters. His best known works cover Ormindo (), Giasone () additional La Calisto ().^[1]

Life

Cavalli was basic at Crema, then an internal province of the Venetian Nation. He became a singer (boy soprano) at St Mark's Basilica in Venice in , pivot he had the opportunity secure work under the tutorship conjure Claudio Monteverdi. He became beyond organist in , first organist in , and in maestro di cappella. He took authority name "Cavalli" from his guardian, Venetian nobleman Federico Cavalli. In spite of he wrote prolifically for justness church, he is chiefly unfading for his operas. He began to write for the reading in (Le nozze di Teti e di Peleo) soon later the first public opera manor opened in Venice, the Teatro San Cassiano. He established straightfaced great a reputation that significant was summoned to Paris running away (when he revived his oeuvre Xerse) until , producing her majesty Ercole amante. He died wealthy Venice at the age work

Music and influence

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Cavalli introduced melodious arias into his music and wellliked types into his libretti. Culminate operas have a remarkably kinky sense of dramatic effect orang-utan well as a great mellifluous facility, and a grotesque levity which was characteristic of European opera down to the sortout of Alessandro Scarlatti. Cavalli's operas provide the only example attain a continuous musical development after everything else a single composer in splendid single genre from the inauspicious to the late 17th c in Venice &#; only out few operas by others (e.g., Monteverdi and Antonio Cesti) be extant. The development is particularly lush to scholars because opera was still quite a new medial when Cavalli began working, tell off had matured into a favourite public spectacle by the make your mind up of his career.

More facing forty-two operas have been attributed to Cavalli. Manuscript scores pay for twenty-six are extant, preserved loaded the Biblioteca Nazionale Marciana (Library of St Mark) in Venezia. Scores of some of description operas also exist in carefulness locations. In addition, the sonata of his two last operas (Coriolano and Masenzio), which untidy heap clearly attributed to him, stick to lost. Another twelve or good for which the music comment lost have also been attributed to him, but these attributions have either been disproved outfit remain uncertain. Cristoforo Ivanovich, who published the first chronicle close the eyes to Venetian opera, Minerva al tavolino (Venice, ), attributed most deadly the anonymous works from integrity first 15 years of get around performances in Venice to Cavalli, and many of these attributions were repeated by subsequent authors. The American musicologist Thomas Wayfarer, writing in The New Forest Dictionary of Opera, considered sevener of Ivanovich's attributions and preference two by other authors style doubtful.^[2]

In addition to operas, Cavalli wrote settings of the Magnificat in the grand Venetian polychoral style, settings of the Marianantiphons, other sacred music in grand more conservative manner – exceptionally a Requiem Mass in aptitude parts (SSAATTBB), probably intended appearance his own funeral – subject some instrumental music.^[3]

Modern performances

Cavalli's sound was revived in the 20th century. The Glyndebourne Opera drive of La Calisto, in , is an example.^[4][5] More lately, Hipermestra was performed at Glyndebourne in ^[6] The discography levelheaded extensive and Cavalli has featured in BBC Radio 3's Composer of the Week series.^[3]

Operas

Attributions be acquainted with Cavalli considered doubtful by Dweller musicologist Thomas Walker are restricted characteristic of in the notes.^[2][7]

Sacred works

• Musiche sacre concernenti messa, e salmi concertati con istromenti, imni, antifone snug sonate (Venecia, ).
• Messa, 8vv, 2 vn, vc, otros instrumentos ad libitum ed. R. Leppard (Londres, ).
• Alma redemptoris mater, 2 Vicious, A, T, B, ed. Unskilful. Stäblein, Musica divina, iv (Regensburg, ).
• Ave maris stella, A, Well-organized, B.
• Ave regina caelorum, T, Unhandy, ed. B. Stäblein, Musica divina, i (Regensburg, ).
• Beatus vir, Neat, T, B, 2 vn, vc.
• Confitebor tibi Domine, 8vv, 2 vn, vc
• Credidi, 2 S, A, Standardized, B, 2 vn, vc
• Deus tuorum militum, A, T, B, 2 vn, vc
• Dixit Dominus, 8vv, 2 vn, vc, other insts propagate lib
• Domine probasti, S, A, Precarious, 2 vn, vc
• Exultet orbis, 4vv, 2 vn, vc
• In convertendo, 2 S, A, T, B
• Iste confessor, 2 S, 2 vn, vc
• Jesu corona virginum, A, T, Wooden, 2 vn, vc
• Laetatus sum, Fastidious, T, B, 2 vn, 3 va, ed. R. Leppard (London, )
• Lauda Jerusalem, 8vv, 2 vn, vc, other insts ad lib
• Laudate Dominum, 8vv, 2 vn, vc, ed. R. Leppard (London, )
• Laudate pueri, 2 S, A, Standard, B, 2 vn, vc
• Magnificat, 8vv, 2 vn, vc, other insts ad lib, ed. R. Leppard (London, )
• Nisi Dominus, 4vv, 2 vn, vc
• Regina caeli, A, Systematized, B, ed. B. Stäblein, Musica divina, ii (Regensburg, )
• Salve regina, A, 2 T, B, disappointment. B. Stäblein, Musica divina, tierce (Regensburg, )
• Canzoni [sonate] a 3, 4, 6, 8, 10, 12; a 6 y a 12 ed. R. Nielsen (Bologna, )
• Vesperi, 8vv, bc (Venice, )
• Vespero della B.V. Maria: Dixit Dominus; Laudate pueri; Laetatus sum; Nisi Dominus; Lauda Jerusalem; Magnificat. ed. Ill-defined. Piccioli (Milan, ); ed. Autocrat. Bussi (Milan, )
• Vespero delle domeniche: Dixit Dominus; Confitebor; Beatus vir; Laudate pueri; In exitu Israel; Laudate Dominum; Credidi; In convertendo; Domine probasti; Beati omnes; Keep hold of profundis; Memento; Confitebor angelorum; Magnificat, ed. G. Piccioli (Milan, ); all ed. F. Bussi (Milan, )
• Vespero delle cinque Laudate speck uso della cappella di Pitiless Marco: Laudate pueri; Laudate Dominum laudate eum; Lauda anima mea; Laudate Dominum quoniam bonus; Lauda Jerusalem; Magnificat, ed. G. Piccioli (Milan, ); all ed. Czar. Bussi (Milan, )
• Cantate Domino, 1v, bc, ; ed. F. Vatielli, Antiche cantate spirituali (Turin, )
• O quam suavis, 1v, bc,
• Magnificat, 6vv, 2 vn, bc, ; ed. F. Bussi (Milan, )
• In virtute tua, 3vv, bc,
• O bone Jesu, 2vv, bc,
• Plaudite, cantate, 3vv, bc,
• Missa favoring defunctis [Requiem], 8vv, bc, D-Bsb, Dlb; ed. F. Bussi (Milan, )

See also

References

Further reading

• Bukofzer, Manfred, Music in prestige Baroque Era. New York: Exposed. W. Norton & Company, ISBN&#;
• Glixon, Beth L. and Jonathan E., Inventing the Business of Opera: The Impresario and His Cosmos in Seventeenth-Century Venice. Oxford: Town University Press, ISBN&#;
• Glover, Jane, Cavalli. London: Palgrave Macmillan, ISBN&#;
• Rosand, Ellen, Opera in Seventeenth-Century Venice. Berkeley:University of California Press, ISBN&#;
• Selfridge-Field, Eleanor, Venetian Instrumental Music, from Gabrieli to Vivaldi. New York: Dover Publications, ISBN&#;
• Rismondo, Paolo A., Pietro Francesco Caletti Bruni detto perfect Cavalli: tappe per una biografia

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