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Italian composer (1743–1818)
Giuseppe Gazzaniga
Giuseppe Gazzaniga (5 October 1743 – 1 February 1818) was a member of the
Neapolitan school of opera
composers . He composed fifty-one
operas and is considered to be one of the last
Italian
opera buffa composers.
Biography
Born in
Verona , Gazzaniga was initially intended for the priesthood at the urging of his devout parents. He eventually convinced his father to allow him to pursue a career in music and began studies first in
Venice and then at the
Conservatorio di Sant'Onofrio a Porta Capuana in
Naples . While there, he was a pupil of
Niccolò Piccinni and
Nicola Porpora . Gazzaniga presented his first opera,
Il barone di Trocchia , at the
Teatro di San Carlo in 1768. He would spend the next several decades writing mostly operas in Italy with the exception of a few trips to
Dresden ,
Vienna , and
Prague . His most successful opera was his
Don Giovanni Tenorio written in 1787 to a libretto by
Giovanni Bertati , possibly an inspiration for the libretto of
Mozart 's
Don Giovanni . His last opera,
Martino Carbonaro , was performed at the
Teatro San Moisè in
Venice in 1801.
[1] He also wrote a symphony and three piano concertos.
[2]
In 1791, he became musical director of
Crema Cathedral in the
Lombardy region of northern
Italy , where he composed numerous sacred works including several
cantatas ,
oratorios , and
masses . He remained in that position until his death in 1818.
[3]
His life and works were the subject of a detailed study by the prominent 19th-century German critic
Friedrich Chrysander .
[1]
Works
Operas
Il barone di Trocchia (libretto by
Francesco Cerlone ,
intermezzo , 1768,
Naples )
La locanda (libretto by
Giovanni Bertati ,
opera buffa , 1771,
Venice )
Il Calandrino (libretto by
Giovanni Bertati , opera buffa, 1771,
Venice )
Ezio (libretto di
Pietro Metastasio ,
opera seria , 1772,
Venice )
La tomba di Merlino (libretto by
Giovanni Bertati , opera buffa 1772,
Venice )
L'isola di Alcina (libretto by
Giovanni Bertati , opera buffa, 1772,
Venice )
Zon-Zon (L'inimico delle donne) (libretto by
Giovanni Bertati , opera buffa, 1773,
Milan )
Armida (opera seria, 1773,
Rome )
Il matrimonio per inganno (opera buffa, 1773,
Pavia )
Il ciarlatano in fiera (libretto by
Pietro Chiari , opera buffa, 1774,
Venice )
Perseo ed Andromeda (libretto by
Vittorio Amedeo Cigna-Santi , 1775, opera seria,
Florence )
L'isola di Calipso (libretto by Giovanni Pindemonte, opera seria, 1775,
Verona )
Il re di Mamalucchi (opera buffa, 1775,
Prague )
Gli errori di Telemaco (libretto by Carlo Giuseppe Lanfranchi-Rossi, opera seria, 1776,
Pisa )
La bizzaria degli umori (opera buffa, 1777,
Bologna )
Il marchese di Verde Antico (composto in collaborazione con
Francesco Piticchio , opera buffa, 1778,
Rome )
La vendemmia (libretto by
Giovanni Bertati , opera buffa, 1778,
Florence )
Il re dei pazzi (opera buffa, 1778,
Venice )
La finta folletto o Lo spirito folletto (opera buffa, 1778,
Rome )
Il disertore (Il disertor francese) (libretto di Ferdinando Casoni, 1779,
Florence )
Antigono (libretto di
Pietro Metastasio , opera seria, 1779,
Rome )
Il ritorno di Ulisse e Penelope (libretto by Giovanni Andrea Monigalia, opera seria, 1779,
Rome )
La viaggiatrice (libretto by Francesco Saverio Zini, opera buffa, 1780,
Naples )
Antigona (libretto by Gaetano Roccaforte, opera seria, 1781,
Naples )
La stravagante (libretto by Francesco Saverio Zini, opera buffa, 1781,
Naples )
Amor per oro (libretto by Cerilo Arcomeno, opera buffa, 1782,
Venice )
La creduta infedele (libretto by
Francesco Cerlone , opera buffa, 1783,
Venice )
L'intrigo delle mogli (libretto by
Giuseppe Palomba , opera buffa, 1783,
Naples )
La dama contadina (opera buffa, 1784,
Rome )
Il serraglio di Osmano o le tre sultane (libretto by
Giovanni Bertati , opera buffa, 1784,
Venice )
Tulio Ostilio (libretto by Francesco Ballani, opera seria, 1784,
Rome )
La moglie capricciosa (opera buffa, 1785,
Venice )
Il finto cieco (libretto by
Lorenzo Da Ponte opera buffa, 1786,
Vienna )
Circe (libretto by Domenico Perelli, opera seria, 1786,
Venice )
La contessa di Novaluna (libretto by
Giovanni Bertati , opera buffa, 1786,
Venice )
Le donne fanatiche (libretto by
Giovanni Bertati , 1786,
Venice )
Don Giovanni Tenorio (libretto di
Giovanni Bertati , dramma giocoso, 1787,
Venice )
La Didone (opera seria, 1787,
Venice )
La cameriera di spirito (libretto by Gaetano Fiorio, opera buffa, 1787,
Venice )
L'amore costante (La costanza in amor rende felice) (libretto di
Giovanni Bertati , opera buffa, 1787,
Venice )
Erifile (opera seria, 1789,
Venice )
Gli Argonauti in Colco (libretto by
Antonio Simeone Sografi , opera seria, 1790,
Venice )
Idomeneo (libretto by Gaetano Sentor, opera seria, 1790,
Padua )
La disfatta dei Mori (libretto by Giandomenico Boggio, opera seria, 1791,
Turin )
La dama soldato (libretto by
Caterino Mazzolà , opera buffa, 1792,
Venice )
La pastorella nobile (opera buffa, 1793, Fortezza di Palma)
La donna astuta (opera buffa, 1793,
Venice )
Il divorzio senza matrimonio ossia La donna che non parla (libretto by Gaetano Sentor, opera buffa, 1794,
Modena )
Fedeltà e amore alla pruova (libretto by Giuseppe Foppa, 1798,
Venice )
Il marito migliore (libretto by Tomaso Menucci di Goro, opera buffa, 1801,
Milan )
Martino Carbonaro o sia Gli sposi fuggitivi (libretto by Giuseppe Foppa, farsa, 1801,
Venice )
Selected sacred music
San Mauro Abate (
oratorio )
Sansone (
oratorio )
I profeti al calvario (
oratorio )
Missa pro defunctis
Te Deum laudamus
Requiem
Gloria in excelsis Deo
Kyrie breve
Credo
Two different Tamtum ergo
Stabat Mater (1800)
Selected instrumental music
References
External links
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