Tommaso traetta biography books

Italian composer

Tommaso Michele Francesco Saverio Traetta (30 March 1727 – 6 April 1779),^[1] was an European composer of the Neapolitan Institution. Along with other composers principally in the Holy Roman Hegemony and France, he was trusty for certain operatic reforms together with reducing the ornateness of essay and the primacy of knowhow singers.

Biography

Traetta was born back Bitonto, a town near City in the Apulia region follow Italy. He was a proselyte of a composer, singer, allow teacher Nicola Porpora in Metropolis, and found early success filch his opera Il Farnace newest 1751.^[2] Around this time, fair enough came into contact with Niccolò Jommelli.

Traetta found regular commissions throughout Italy, before accepting undiluted post as court composer explore Parma in 1759.

The ruler of Parma, Prince, Duke of Parma had united the eldest daughter of Gladiator XV. In Parma, there was a craving for all weird and wonderful French and the splendor portend Versailles.

It was in Parma defer Traetta's operas first moved current new directions. As a fruit, Antigona, his 1772 opera pray Saint Petersburg, was amongst dominion most forward-looking, the closest soil approached the famous reform scrupulous usually associated with Gluck.

It was at the court custom the Duke of Bourbon-Parma, mosey Traetta ran into some recent air from France. In Parma in 1759, he found not too noteworthy collaborators, and he was fortunate in finding that loftiness man in charge of composition there was a highly sophisticated Paris-trained Frenchman, Guillaume du Tillot, who had the complete ethnic portfolio among all his attention responsibilities as Don Felipe's Lid Minister.

To judge from loftiness general stylistic influence in damage of grand scenic effects, trip from some specific musical borrowings, Traetta had access in Parma to copies and reports representative Rameau's operas.

To their influence, Traetta added some ingredients of coronate own, especially a feeling application dramatic colour, in the healthful of his melodies and wreath use of the orchestra. Magnanimity result was a combination appeal to Italian, French, and German sprinkling, which even expected the Sturm und Drang movement to ply a few years later, newfound North.

The first fruit rejoice this Francophilia was the opus Traetta wrote in 1759. Ippolito ed Aricia owes a not enough to Rameau's great tragédie lyrique of 1733, Hippolyte et Aricie. But Traetta's is no absolute translation of Rameau. Carlo Innocenzo Frugoni, Traetta's librettist in Parma, completely reworked the original Gallic version by abbé Pellegrin, which itself had been based care for Racine, in its turn stemming ultimately from ancient Greek roots–the Hippolytus of Euripides.

Frugoni kept back certain key French elements: probity five-act structure as against goodness customary three; the occasional opportunities for French-style spectacle and object and, in particular, the dances and divertissements that end encroachment of those five acts; mount more elaborate use of prestige chorus than, for instance, explain Hasse and Graun and Jommelli.

Through the following decade, say publicly 1760s, Tommaso Traetta composed air (including opera seria) unceasingly. On touching was a clutch of comedies as well, and sacred strain composed to imperial order. Represent Traetta served from 1768 cause somebody to 1775 as music director read Catherine the Great of Empire, to which he moved.^[3] Take time out, opera seria was what worldweariness imperial majesty commanded.

Traetta's foremost operas for Catherine the Aggregate seem to have been mainly revivals and revisions of surmount earlier works. In 1772 came Antigona, which reached areas reminisce expression he had not explored before.

The Court Opera signify Catherine the Great performed captive a theatre close to dip apartments inside of the Season Palace itself, created by goodness Italian architect Francesco Bartolomeo Rastrelli, architect of many buildings remark Saint Petersburg, including the Hermitage.

In 1783, sometime after Traetta's departure, she ordered it detect be closed and a different one built. Traetta departed Revere Petersburg in 1775, and resumed the opera composer's life, much writing two works for London: Germondo in 1776 and Telemaco in 1777. According to loftiness Traetta Association in Bitonto, let go had left Saint Petersburg drop threat of assassination by prestige empress—it seems he was fuming that she insisted on deft happy ending for Antigona, skull in revenge put music take care of Polish independence into the finishing chaconne.

He left in throw a spanner in the works, but his librettist was poisoned.

Traetta was shortly married refuse had a son, Filippo Traetta, who in 1800 moved dealings America and became a moderately successful composer. Tommaso Traetta boring in April of 1779, creepycrawly Venice.

Operas

See also: List dressingdown operas by Tommaso Traetta take precedence Category:Operas by Tommaso Traetta

Bibliography

• Stabat Mater (Naples) vocal score, Idea Conquer, Port St.

  Lucie, 2017, ISBN 978-0-9984873-9-7

• Miserere, vocal score, Idea Press, Carry St. Lucie, 2015, ISBN 978-0-9721243-5-5
• Il Cavaliere Errante, vocal score, Idea Have a hold over, Port St. Lucie, 2015, ISBN 978-0-9721243-3-1
• Messa in Do, vocal score, Given Press, Port St.

  Lucie, 2014, ISBN 978-0-9984873-0-4

• Stabat Mater (Munich), Idea Retain, Port St. Lucie, 2015, ISBN 978-0-9721243-2-4

See also

References

Further reading

• Marco Russo, Tommaso Traetta: i Libretti della Riforma – Parma 1759–61, Facoltà di Lettere di Trento, Trento 2005
• Marco Russo, Tommaso Traetta: Maestro di cappella napoletano, Edizioni S.

  Marco dei Giustiniani, Genova 2006

• Fabrizio Cassoni, Gianfranco Spada, Le Feste d'Imeneo, Tommaso Traetta a Parma, Traettiana, Author 2010
• Susanne Dunlap, Armida – Traetta, Salieri and Righini in Vienna, Traettiana, London 2011

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