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2013-03-14 00:07:13
Mozart Meets Opera: Don Giovanni Part I
It’s been a week since our last meeting already! Time flies. I’ll make up for the absence this week. I even went through boxes of my old school binders to dig out my music history notes for this post! And it’s a good thing that I apparently took very thorough notes in my Music History class, because otherwise I would be pretty lost on today’s topic: opera. Just as a note, this post looks really long, but that’s just because there’s a lot of sung text reproduced. It’s not so scary, I promise. Opera and I have an even stranger relationship than I have with other genres of classical music. For the longest time, my exposure to opera consisted of overtures, the instrumental music that comes before the drama onstage actually begins. In high school, our band played a transcription of the overture to L’italiana in Algeri, or “The […]
2012-02-25 10:38:00
A little about Francesco Antonio Bonporti
To accompany Sankerib's Bonporti Week celebrations, you might like to read a little about this composer's life and career: (b Trent, bap. 11 June 1672; d Padua, 19 Dec 1749). Italian composer. Of good family, he was educated in his native city and Innsbruck in philosophical and humanistic subjects appropriate to the clerical vocation he was to follow. While studying theology at the Collegio Germanico in Rome in 1691–5 Bonporti took music lessons (presumably not his first). Corelli is said to have instructed him in violin playing, and Pitoni in the composition of sacred vocal music, but there is only slender evidence of this. Bonporti returned to Trent ordained as a priest and obtained a minor office in the cathedral in 1697. His op.1, a set of ten trio sonatas (he consistently grouped his instrumental works in tens rather than twelves), had been published the year before. On the […]
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