Niccolò Jommelli

Niccolò Jommelli (born the September 10th 1714 with Aversa, in Campania, Italy - died the August 25th 1774 with Naples) was a Italian Compositeur of the 18th century.

Biography

Jommelli started to compose of the Ballet S and a Cantate of church, which pointed out it. In 1737, it the USA of a pseudonym for its first Opera, the errore amoroso , so much it was dubious of its talent. The first execution, in Naples, was a success which encouraged it to compose its second opera, Odoardo .

In 1740, Jommelli gained Rome and wrote Ricimero and Astianatte , two operas which increased its fame. Jommelli then accepted a ordering of the town of Bologna, which gave the opportunity to him to meet Padre Giovanni Battista Martini - the most famous Italian musician of then, whose Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was pupil. In 1747, its prestige was so large that it was asked to him to select the candidate for the post of choirmaster in Naples.

In 1748, creation, Vienna, of its opera Didone ensured to him the admiration of Marie-Therese of Austria and Pietro Metastasio. Metastasis claimed that its music “precisely surprised and had enchanted the city as well as the court. It is full with grace, depth, innovation and harmony, and over all, with expression. Very expresses itself, of the violins to the double basses. Until now, I did not understand anything of also convainquant. ” The César of the poets wrote, at the request of the emperor Charles VI of Austria, the booklet of the oratorio Impassions It di nostre Signore Gesù Cristo (1749), initially put in music by the famous Venetian type-setter Antonio Caldara (1670-1736).

Jommelli returned to Rome in 1749, where it was named substitute teacher of vault. In 1753, it was called by the duke of Württemberg with Stuttgart, where, sixteen years during, it was Oberkapellmeister of its court, with exceptional annual salary of 4000 guilders. It composed in Stuttgart in 1756, to commemorate the death of the mother of its employer, his Requiem in major E flat for soli , chorus and orchestra. The health of his wife brought back it to Italy, in 1769. The king of the Portugal invited it to compose of the operas but, too tired, it had to decline the offer and continued to compose in Aversa. In 1770, its opera Armida was heard in Naples by Mozart, then fourteen years old, who appreciated it much. In 1771, the opera Ifigenia was a failure which diverted Jommelli of the kind. It was devoted then to the sacred music, producing splendid a Miserere .

Niccolò Jommelli bequeathed us a hundred varied works: Opera S, serenade S, Cantata S and various liturgical parts, such attaching them Lamentations of Jérémie (1750).

Principal works

Its operas:

  • the errore amoroso (1737)

  • Ricimero (1740)
  • Astianatte (1740)
  • Ezio (1741)
  • Merope (1741)
  • Demofoonte (1743)
  • Cajo Mario (1746)
  • Gift Trastullo (1746)
  • Didone abbandonata (1747)
  • Didone (1748)
  • Artaserse (1749)
  • Demetrio (1749)
  • Ifigenia (1751)
  • Attilio Regolo (1753)
  • Enea nel Lazio (1755)
  • Olimpiade (1761)
  • Fetonte (1768)
  • Armida abbandonata (1770)

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