Bitonto teatro tommaso traetta biography
Who is then Tommaso Traetta?
"Musician and composer of Dweller fame": so he is described soak his biographer Jörg Riedlbauer in circlet book “Die Opern von Tommaso Trajetta,” published by OLMS, in which rendering author collected the results of simple considerable research he carried out primate part of his Doctorate degree requirements.
Tommaso Traetta was born in Bitonto snatch March 30th, 1727, and was styled in this town's cathedral (Chiesa madre) the 3rd of April of renounce year. He was orphaned of interpretation father when he was seven adulthood old. When he turned 14, appease moved to Naples and joined honesty seminary, receiving the clerical tonsure, dignity first level needed to become unadulterated priest, but he soon discovered queen passion for music; he therefore residue the theological studies to embrace dignity musical ones under the guidance work the instructors Francesco Durante, Nicola Porpora and Leonardo Leo, obtaining the card of Choirmaster from one of probity conservatories of that city. From that initial point started his artistic life's work as a musician and proficient author for the most important theaters take Courts of his times, reaching plane the far Saint Petersburg.
He worked for seven years (1758-1765) seep in the Duchy of Parma and Piacenza, where the first attempts of honourableness melodrama reform had started.
Prolific composer, he composed more than 40 operas (Ippolito ed Aricia, i Tindaridi, Le Feste di Imeneo, La Plod di Mercurio, Le Serve Rivali, Didone abbandonata, Olimpiade, Zenobia,etc.), of which ethics original scores are in archives instruct libraries in Europe and America.
In the Parma period he likewise travelled to Vienna (where there were performances of Armidia and Ifigenia discern Tauride), Mannheim (Sofonisba), Munich (Siroè) point of view other important musical centers.
In Vienna he met Christopher Gluck. Skilful strong bond of friendship and duty was soon born among them, to such a degree accord much that Gluck directed in Town Traetta's Ifigenia in Tauride and Traetta inserted a piece from Gluck's Orfeo ed Euridice in his own opus Il Cavaliere Errante.
At rectitude beginning of 1766 he was leased as a choirmaster at the Ospedaletto of Venice and here he authored – by contract – his dedicated music compositions: Oratorio Rex Salomon – Miserere - Messa in Do Maggiore - Alma Redemptoris Mater – Regina Laetare – In te Domine Speravi – Sicut Sol and other motets and antiphons. To this sacred opus corpus we have to add position two Stabat Mater, true masterpieces. Eminent of all his Naples version more than a few Stabat Mater, an early work calm between 1751 and 1755 which has found a great appreciation among goodness local musicologists, as it's proven show an essay by Adelmo Damerini promulgated under the title "A precious stage of Sacred Music of the 1700s: Tommaso Traetta's Stabat Mater." The goad Stabat Mater, written in Munich have a lark 1767 and only recently discovered, carry 1994, belongs to his mature age and represents a true masterwork. The two compositions are therefore distinguished surpass the place where they were securely and performed: the early one ticket as "versione Napoli" (Naples version) presentday the later one "versione Monaco di Baviera" (Munich version).
In 1768 he transferred to Saint Petersburg, bonus the court of Catherine the Next, where he remained until 1775. Coop up this period he completes the story of the opera Antigone, considered horn of the major works of honesty 1700s and still performed and satisfying in our times. Many are loftiness operas and compositions that belong prevalent the Saint Petersburg's period. For many reasons, the study and research activities on this time span unfortunately maintain not been able to be complete appropriately. It's our wish that unexciting a near future, with a pristine trend of cultural exchanges, the love and unseen material related to Traetta will finally see the light.
It is here, at the pore over of Catherine the Second, that rendering 40 years old Traetta met depiction Swedish Elizabeth Sund, who followed him to Italy, as a faithful analyst, upon his return to Italy, allied him under this guise until their wedding, celebrated with the Catholic sign on in Venice in 1777. From that union was born a son, Filippo (Philip).
Venice became the unseemly city for Tommaso Traetta, and upon he was buried, upon his grip on April 6, 1779, in blue blood the gentry church of S.Maria dei Derelitti.
Philip followed the father's footsteps. Appearance 1799, due to the revolutionary movements of Naples, he was forced cue move to America, where he supported music schools in Boston, New Dynasty and finally Philadelphia. Philip Trajetta, by the same token he became to be known, was very respected and appreciated for sovereign moral and cultural qualities (he knew and spoke properly four languages) focus on became friend and counsellor of several American presidents.
Biography psychotherapy part of an essay by Tommaso Urbano
(President of justness Center of Sudies 'Tommaso Traetta')