1669–1750, Italian The Venetian librettist Zeno was a librarian and historian, who sought to establish opera libretti as a recognized literary form. His first opera libretto, Lucio Vero, was a huge success at Venice in 1695. Zeno continued to write more libretti, although he had reservations about it affecting his scholarly credibility. In 1718, Zeno ...
at the Habsburg court across 20 years. Meanwhile, the prolific Caldara also composed several operas for Salzburg. He was the first composer regularly to set libretti by reformers Apostolo Zeno (1669–1750) and Metastasio. Caldara was one of the few composers of the era who regularly used choral forces in his operas, although his musical style for Vienna was required ...
exaggeration: over 50 printed libretti and about 20 musical scores have survived, although several exist only in an incomplete form. Introduction | Late Baroque | Opera Personalities | Apostolo Zeno | Late Baroque | Opera ...
younger sidemen who became major jazz stalwarts – Bunk Johnson, Joe ‘King’ Oliver, Sidney Bechet, Johnny Dodds and ‘Big Eye’ Louis Nelson. Drummers Baby Dodds, Henry Zeno and Abbey ‘Chinee’ Foster also played with the band. Duson was associated with the raggy and bluesy music of Bolden, and in the song ‘Buddy Bolden’s Blues’, retailed by ...
1716, and the title pages of the printed wordbooks state that he served the Duke of Mantua between 1699 and 1705. Silvani identified with the ‘reform’ librettists such as Zeno and Pariati, and his texts feature clearly motivated plots, elevated language and extensive recitatives. He occasionally based his libretti on literary sources such as Tasso, Seneca and ...
(Clarinet, alto saxophone, 1900–68) Lewis (born George Louis Francis Zeno) led bands in New Orleans in the 1920s, but he remained in the Crescent City while many of his colleagues headed north to Chicago, where the Jazz Age was being forged on the city’s South Side. Lewis did not record until the 1940s (in sessions that teamed ...
1700 attracted him to composing operas and oratorios. Most of Fux’s 18 operas are settings of libretti by Pietro Pariati (1665–1733), although he also set some texts by Stampiglia, Zeno and Metastasio. His greatest triumph was Costanza e Fortezza (1723), performed in Prague to celebrate his patron Charles VI’s coronation as King of Bohemia, although, owing to ill ...
years in an Italian prison. He lived in Venice for 15 years, until he was appointed a court poet at Vienna in 1714. While in Venice he worked with Zeno on several libretti, specialized in adapting recent tragedies into opera libretti and updated old seventeenth-century libretti. He gained celebrity for writing comic scenes and intermezzi, and drew on ...
of its tragedies. The result was opera seria – serious opera. Metastasio and Opera Seria The protagonists of opera seria were not composers, but two Italian librettists – Apostolo Zeno (1668–1750) and Pietro Metastasio (1698–1782). Metastasio was Italy’s most famous poet and, among composers, soon became its most popular librettist. This was how opera libretti acquired a new ...
mythology. Founder members included the librettist Silvio Stampiglia and Gian Vincenzo Gravina (the adoptive father of Metastasio). The Marcello brothers, Corelli and Scarlatti were also granted membership, and Zeno was the founder of an affiliated group in Venice. Handel’s patrons Cardinal Ottoboni, Cardinal Pamphili and Prince Ruspoli were all members, but although Handel composed some chamber cantatas ...
, but the ideas behind it were discussed in the writings of theorists such as Johann Mattheson (1681–1764). These ideas were put into practice on stage by the famous librettists Zeno and, in the following generation, Metastasio. The doctrine defined specific ‘affections’ or emotions, such as love, hate, sorrow, despair or hope. Each of these ...
1626–90, Italian Giovanni Legrenzi composed his first operas at Ferrara, where he became maestro di cappella at the Accademia dello Spirito Santo in 1656. He began with Nino il giusto (‘Nino the Just’, 1662) and in the next three years produced Achille in Sciro (1663) and Zenobia e Radamisto (1665). Subsequently, Legrenzi led a nomadic life, travelling ...
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