VICENTE MARTIN Y SOLER
Martín y Soler studies music in Bologna with Giovanni Battista Martini. His first opera, Il Tutore burlato (The Mocked Tutor), an adaptation of La Frascatana by Giovanni Paisiello himself taken from the play, of the same name, by Filippo Livigni, is created in 1775. The libretto was then translated into Spanish and adapted as a zarzuela entitled La Madrileña o El tutor burlado, which premiered in Madrid in 1778. En 1777, he goes to Naples to compose his first ballet for the Teatro San Carlo. During this period, he works with choreographer Charles Le Picq to compose four action ballets : La Griselda (1779, after Apostolo Zeno), Il ratto delle Sabine (17), La Belle Arsène (1781), and Tamas Kouli-Kan (1781, after Vittorio Amedeo Cigna-Santi). He also composed two ballets mezzocarattere ("Half-character"), The sposa persiana (1778) and Il Barbiere di Siviglia (1781, after the play by Beaumarchais). In Naples he also works with the court librettist, Luigi serio, to the composition of opera serie, producing Ifigenia (1779) and Ipermestra (1780). En 1785, he moved to Vienna, where he met with great success thanks to the operas he composed on libretto by Lorenzo da Ponte, who collaborates simultaneously with Mozart and Antonio Salieri. The music of Una cosa rara is also cited by Mozart in the final scene of Don Giovanni (1787). En 1788, he is invited to the imperial court of Russia in St. Petersburg, where he composed the operas in Russian L'Infortuné Héros Kosmetovich (1789, libretto written in part by Catherine II), Melomania (90), and Fedul and his children (1791, with Vassili Pachkevich). During this period, he also completed two operas in Italian : The capricciosa corretta (1795, libretto by da Ponte, probably adapted from Shakespeare's The Tame Shrew) and La festa del villaggio (1798). He also composed a number of tragic ballets including Dido abandonne (1792), Love and Psyche (1793, inspired by the Psyche of Molière, Corneille and Philippe Quinault), Tancrède after Voltaire and The Return of Poliorcète (1799). He died in his post as court composer in 1806, contributing with Sarti to create Russian opera, according to the wishes of Catherine II. His opera Una cosa rara, very spectacular because of its style combining the buffa (food style) Neapolitan and Spanish vigor, is still today registered and represented, especially in Barcelona and Italy. Google machine translation: VICENTE MARTIN Y SOLER's original bio |
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| VICENTE MARTIN Y SOLER Publisher : Boosey Genre : Chamber Music Group : Ensemble of various instruments |
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| VICENTE MARTIN Y SOLER Publisher : Boosey Genre : Chamber Music Group : Ensemble of various instruments |
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| VICENTE MARTIN Y SOLER Publisher : De Haske Genre : Chamber Music Group : Ensemble of various instruments |
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