Giuseppe Sarti

Giuseppe Sarti (born the December 28th 1729 with Faenza, Emilie-Romagna, Italy - died the July 28th 1802 with Berlin) was an Italian type-setter of the 18th century, author of many operas, whose somewhat nowadays forgotten name, knew a certain celebrity thanks to allusion to the air of its opera FRA I due litiganti , “ Like a agnello ”, that Mozart quoted at the time of the final banquet of Don Giovanni.

Biography

Giuseppe Sarti, attracted very young by the music, went to Padoue, where he studied it with the Father Francesco Antonio Vallotti (who codified the theory of the dissonance), then to Bologna with the famous Padre Martini.

Of return in its birthplace, it was first of all named Organiste of the cathedral, then in 1752, director of the theater. Its first opera, Pompeo in Armenia was represented there the same year. The following year, the second, It Re pastore was created with Venice, for the Carnaval, and there gained a sharp success.

At the end of this same year 1753, Giuseppe Sarti was invited to Copenhagen and was charged with directing the troop of Pietro Mingotti. The October 14th 1754 is created in the Danish capital its opera Antigono . Its operas ( Vologeso , Antigono , Ciro Riconosciuto ) rained with the king Frederic V, who named it Choirmaster of the court, then directing of the Italian opera. There will remain twelve years with the Denmark and will compose forty scenic works there. With the closing of the Italian opera (in 1763), it was named director of the music of court.

In 1765, whereas he travelled to Italy in order to engage of the singers, the death of Frederic V brings a brutal change of its situation. Losing its station with Copenhagen, Sarti was engaged like maestro di coro with the Conservatoire della Pietà of Venice, where there will remain two years (of 1766 with 1768).

In 1769, it went to London, where it managed to remain only by giving lessons.

In 1770, it went back to Copenhagen and took again its functions of director of the royal vault until in 1775.

In 1775, named directing of the Ospedaletto of Venice, Giuseppe Sarti returned to Italy and was fixed in the city of the Doge S with his wife, the professional singer Camilla Passi.

In 1779, it gained recruitment competition for the post of choirmaster of the Cathédrale of Milan in front of Giovanni Paisiello, which was then the choirmaster of the tsarina Catherine II of Russia. It preserved this function until in 1784 and had, during its stay in the capital lombarde, as raises Luigi Cherubini.

In January 1781, its opera Giulio Sabino was created on the scene of the Teatro San Benedetto with Venice for the Carnival.

The court of Russia cultivated the music and the opera, inviting Italian type-setters of which Francesco Araja was the first. Giuseppe Sarti itself was invited to the Russian imperial court in 1785, as that had been the case before Baldassare Galuppi, Tommaso Traetta and Giovanni Paisiello, and as it will be the case after him for Domenico Cimarosa and Vicente Martin there Soler, Spanish of birth, but Italian of heart.

During its voyage to take its functions of director of the imperial vault of Saint-Pétersbourg, it stopped some time with Vienna, where it was accepted by the emperor Joseph II. It met there Mozart, which appreciated his music, very known in the Austrian capital, where its operas triumphed with the Burgtheater .

With Saint-Pétersbourg was created, in January 1786 its Armida E Rinaldo , according to its Armida Abbandonata created in Copenhagen. The intrigues of prima donna Luiza Todi, moved away it from Catherine II. Sarti entered then to the service of the prince Potemkine, favorite of the tsarina, whom it will follow even at the time of his countryside against the Turks! After the death of Potemkine in 1791, and a period of teaching, it found in 1793 its functions of type-setter of the court. The assassination of the tsar Paul I {{er}} in 1801, made him leave the Russia definitively.

It is during its return voyage towards Italy, at the time of a halt with Berlin, which he died the July 28th 1802.

Works

Pompeo in Armenia , opera, (1752)
It Re pastore , opera, (1753)
It Vologeso , opera, (1754)
Antigono , opera, (1754)
Ciro riconosciuto , (1755)
Arianna E Teseo , opera, (1756)
Anagilda , opera, (1758)
Armida abbandonata , opera, (1759)
Achilles in Sciro , opera, (1759)
Andromaca , opera, (1759-1760)
Filindo , opera, (1760)
Didone abbandonata (1762)
It gran Tamerlano (1764)
the gelosy villane (1776)
Medonte, Re di Epiro (1777)
Giulio Sabino , opera, (1781)
FRA I due litiganti it terzo gode , opera, (1782)
Gli Amanti Consolati , opera (1784)
Armida E Rinaldo , opera (1786)

External bonds

Article " Giulio Sabino de Sarti (1781), the European destiny of a rebel langrois" on the site Odb-opera (a biography of Sarti includes/understands)
Article of Wil Crutchfield, '' Opera: “I due litiganti”, year 18th-century story '', New York Times, March 20th, 1987

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