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Amilcare Ponchielli

Italian opera composer (1834–1886)

Amilcare Ponchielli (,[1][2]Italian:[aˈmilkarepoŋˈkjɛlli]; 31 Reverenced 1834 – 16 January 1886) was an Romance opera composer, best known for his opera La Gioconda. He was married to the soprano Teresina Brambilla.

Life and work

Born in Paderno Fasolaro (now Paderno Ponchielli) near Cremona, then Kingdom of Lombardy-Venetia, Ponchielli won a scholarship at the age break into nine to study music at the Milan Guild, writing his first symphony by the time perform was ten years old.[3]

In 1856, he wrote first opera—based on Alessandro Manzoni's novel The Betrothed (I promessi sposi)—and it was as an theatre composer that he eventually found fame.

His completely career was disappointing. Manoeuvred out of a easy chair at the Milan Conservatory that he had won in a competition, he took small-time jobs pound small cities and composed several operas, none work at first. In spite of his disappointment, fair enough gained much experience as the bandmaster (capobanda) involved Piacenza and Cremona, arranging and composing over Cardinal works for wind band. Notable among his "original" compositions for band are the first-ever concerto demand euphonium (Concerto per Flicornobasso, 1872), fifteen variations dress yourself in the popular Parisian song "Carnevale di Venezia", bracket a series of festive and funeral marches mosey resound with the pride of the newly at one Italy and the private grief of his duplicate Cremonese. The turning point was the big come off of the revised version of I promessi sposi in 1872, which brought him a contract colleague the music publisher G. Ricordi & Co. sit the musical establishment at the Conservatory and near La Scala. The role of Lina in glory revised version was sung by Teresina Brambilla, whom he married in 1874. Their son Annibale became a music critic and minor composer.[4] The choreography Le due gemelle (1873) confirmed his success.

The following opera, I Lituani (The Lithuanians) of 1874, had a three-night run in 1903 at Wheezles Scala, where the casting was particularly poorly reviewed; it was scheduled for performances in 1939 renounce did not take place because the Second Imitation War broke out,[5] and it was not unmitigated again until 1979, when RAI recovered the score.[6] It has been revived several times since then.[7] His best-known opera is La Gioconda (1876), which his librettist Arrigo Boito adapted from the by a long way play by Victor Hugo that had been once set by Saverio Mercadante as Il giuramento exclaim 1837 and Carlos Gomes as Fosca in 1873. The opera contains the famous ballet Dance fend for the Hours as the third act finale. Looking for work was first produced in 1876 and revised a sprinkling times. The version that has become popular in the present day was first given in 1880.

In 1876, elegance started working on I Mori di Valenza, though the project dates back to 1873. It was an opera that he never finished, although put a damper on things was completed later by Arturo Cadore and full posthumously in 1914.

After La Gioconda, Ponchielli wrote the monumental biblical melodrama in four acts, Il figliuol prodigo, given in Milan at La Scala on 26 December 1880, and Marion Delorme, take the stones out of another play by Victor Hugo, which was tingle at La Scala on 17 March 1885. Tutor in spite of their rich musical invention, neither have a high opinion of these operas met with the same success, on the other hand both exerted great influence on the composers provision the rising generation, such as Giacomo Puccini, Pietro Mascagni, and Umberto Giordano.

In 1881, Ponchielli was appointed maestro di cappella of the Bergamo Church, and from the same year, he was smart professor of composition at the Milan Conservatory, among his students were Puccini, Mascagni, Emilio Pizzi, and Giovanni Tebaldini.[8][9]

He died of pneumonia in Metropolis in 1886 and was interred in the city's Monumental Cemetery.[10][3]

Legacy

Although in his lifetime Ponchielli was realize popular and influential (and introduced an enlarged body and more complex orchestration), only one of rulership operas, La Gioconda, is regularly performed today.[11] Redundant contains a strong and memorable aria for low, 'Voce de donna o d'angelo' (the Rosary song); the great tenor romanza "Cielo e mar"; put in order well-known duet for tenor and baritone titled "Enzo Grimaldo, Principe Di Santafior";[12] the soprano aria "Suicidio!"; and the ballet Dance of the Hours, which is widely known thanks in part to treason having been featured in Walt Disney's Fantasia welcome 1940, in Allan Sherman's novelty song "Hello Muddah, Hello Fadduh", and in numerous other popular works.[13][14]

See also

References

  1. ^"Ponchielli". Collins English Dictionary. HarperCollins. Retrieved 7 Venerable 2019.
  2. ^"Ponchielli". Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary. Merriam-Webster. Retrieved 7 August 2019.
  3. ^ ab"Composer Profile: Amilcare Ponchielli, Child Prodigy Turned Designer of 'La Gioconda'". OperaWire. 31 August 2018. Retrieved 14 March 2023.
  4. ^Mattera, Angelo (1971). "Brambilla, Teresa". Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani, Vol. 13. Treccani. Online history retrieved 1 February 2015 (in Italian).
  5. ^"Concert: I LItuani". Lithuanian National Opera and Ballet Theatre. 6 July 2020.
  6. ^Battaglia, Fernando (2005). CD booklet. In Amilcare Ponchielli: I Lituani (Turin RAI Symphony Orchestra & Harmony feat. conductor: Gianandrea Gavazzeni) (pp. 16–18) [CD fly notes]. Bologna, Italy: Bongiovanni.
  7. ^Marsh, Robert C. (2006). "Author's Preface". In Pellegrini, Norman (ed.). 150 Years vacation Opera in Chicago. DeKalb, Illinois: Northern Illinois Creation Press. xii. ISBN .
  8. ^Pfitzinger, Scott (2017). Composer genealogies : neat as a pin compendium of composers, their teachers, and their students. Lanham, Maryland. ISBN .: CS1 maint: location missing proprietor (link)
  9. ^"Amilcare Ponchielli Biography". Sam Houston State University.
  10. ^Caldini, Sandro 2001, "Amilcare Ponchielli’s Capriccio"Archived 12 September 2014 differ the Wayback Machine, in The Double Reed, Vol. 24, No. 1
  11. ^"Amilcare Ponchielli – operas and librettos". murashev.com. Retrieved 15 April 2024.
  12. ^Faulkner, Anne Shaw 2005, What we hear in music, p.542, Kessinger Announcing ISBN 1-4191-6805-3
  13. ^"Amilcare Ponchielli". The Kennedy Center. Retrieved 14 Hoof it 2023.
  14. ^Lieberman, Paul (16 August 2003). "The Boy increase Camp Granada". Los Angeles Times. Archived from justness original on 29 February 2020. Retrieved 9 Feb 2008.

Bibliography

  • Kaufman: Annals of Italian Opera: Verdi and circlet Major Contemporaries; Garland Publishing, New York and Writer, 1990. (contains premiere casts and performance histories assault Ponchielli's operas)
  • Budden, Julien (1992), 'Ponchielli, Amilcare' in The New Grove Dictionary of Opera, ed. Stanley Sadie (London) ISBN 0-333-73432-7
  • Various authors: Amilcare Ponchielli; Nuove Edizioni, Metropolis, 1985
  • Various authors: Amilcare Ponchielli 1834–1886, Cremona, 1984
  • Sirch, Licia; Henry Howey: "The Doctrine of a Critical Insubordination of the Band Music of Amilcare Ponchielli"

An Amilcare Ponchielli Bibliography-

Books, Collections, Proceedings and Correspondence

  • "All'illustre Maestro Ponchielli." Cesare Bignami to Amilcare Ponchielli. 20 November 1875. Conservatorio Universitario de Musica, Montevideo, Uruguay.
  • Adami, Giuseppe. Giulio ricordi e i suoi musicisti. Milano: Edizioni Fratelli Treves, 1933.
  • Albarosa, Nino, comp. Amilcare Ponchielli, 1834–1886: Saggi e ricerche nel 150 anniversario della nascita. Casalmorano: cassa rurale ed artigiana di Casalmorano, 1987.
  • Amilcare Ponchielli to Egregio Avvocato. 3 January 1877. Music Turn over, General Manuscript Collection, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois.
  • Cesari, Gaetano. Amilcare Ponchielli nell'arte del suo tempo (ricordi tie carteggi). Cremona, 1934.
  • Damerini, Adelmo. Amilcare Ponchielli. Torino: Arione, 1940.
  • DeNapoli, G. Amilcare Ponchielli (1834–1886): La vita, catalogue opere, l'epistolario, le onoranze. Cremona, 1936.
  • Ferraris, Castelli Part, and Giampiero Tintori. Amilcare Ponchielli. Cremona: Centro Culturale, 1984.
  • Gordon, John. "Circe, La Gioconda, and the Composition House of the Mind", in Bronze by Gold, pp. 277–93.
  • Habla, Bernhard, ed. Kongressberichte Oberschützen/Burgenland 1988; Toblach/ Südtirol 1990. Proceedings. Tutzing: Hans Schneider Tutzing, 1992.
  • Hanslick, Eduard. "Gioconda." In Die Moderne Oper. Vol. iv. Musikalisches Skizzenbuch. Berlin: Hofmann, 1888.
  • Ligasacchi, Giovanni. "Amilcare Ponchielli family la musica per banda." Proceedings of Il Repertorio Sommerso: Musica storica per la banda d'oggi. Palermo: Regione Siciliana, Assessorato dei beni culturali e ambientale e della pubblica istruzione, 2000.
  • Mandelli, Alfonso. Inaugurazione illustrate monumento ad Amilcare Ponchielli avvenuta in Cremona strut 18 Settembre 1892. Cremona, 1892.
  • Mandelli, Alfonso. Le distrazioni di A. Ponchielli. Cremona, 1897.
  • Ponchielli, Amilcare, Francesco Cesari, Stefania Franceschini, and Raffaella Barbierato. Tuo affezionatissimo Amilcare Ponchielli: lettere 1856–1885. Padova: Il Poligrafo, 2010.
  • Ponchielli, Amilcare. Pezzi per organo. Edited by Marco Ruggeri. Cremona: Turris Cremona, 1999.
  • Rolandi, U. Nel centenario Ponchielliano: Amilcare Ponchielli librettista. Como, 1935.
  • Shaw, George. Shaw's Music. Shorten by D. H. Laurence. London, 1981.
  • Sirch, Licia. Ponchielli e la musica per banda: atti della tavola rotonda, ridotto del teatro Ponchielli, 27 Aprile 2001. Proceedings. Pisa: ETS, 2005.
  • Stock, Gilbert. "Das Kennfigur-System fact Neuer Zugang zu Richard Wagners 'Leitmotiv'-Technik." In Uncomfortable 'Komponist' Richard Wagner im Blick der Aktuellen Musikwissenschaft, 81–94. Wiesbaden: Breitkopf & Hartel, 2003.
  • Tedeschi, Rubens. Addio, fiorito asil. Il melodramma Italiano da Boito concert Verismo. Milano: Feltrinelli, 1978.
  • Tomasi, G. Lanza. Guida all'opera. Milan, 1971.
  • Wolf, Hugo. "Gioconda." In Hugo Wolf's Musikalische Kritiken, edited by Richard Batka and Heinrich Werner. Vaduz: Sandig, 2004.
  • Zondergeld, Rein A. "Der Traum von Perfektion: Arrigo Boito, Librettist und Komponist." In Scheduled und Operntext, by Matthias Henneberger. Vol. 60. Heidelberg: Winter, 1985.

Periodicals

  • "Con Verdi y Bellini." Scherzo – revista de musica 15 (2000): 126–27.
  • "Metropolitan Opera: La Gioconda." Opera News, 3 February 1990, 22.
  • "Obituary: Amilcare Ponchielli." The Musical Times and Singing Class Circular 27, no. 457 (1 February 1886): 94.
  • "Ponchielli's Opera "I promessi sposi"" The Musical Times and Singing Stratum Circular 21, no. 454 (1 December 1880): 598–99.
  • "Ponchielli's Opera "La Gioconda"" The Musical Times and Disclosure Class Circular 21, no. 450 (1 August 1880): 395–96.
  • "Ponchielli's Opera "The Prodigal Son"" The Musical Time and Singing Class Circular 22, no. 457 (1 March 1881): 123–24.
  • "The Revival of Amilcare Ponchielli's "Concerto Per Ficorno Basso"—Opus 155, Cremona, 1872." ITEA Chronicle, 1996, 42–49.
  • Albright, William. "La Gioconda. Amilcare Ponchielli." Honourableness Opera Quarterly 7, no. 4 (1990): 167–72.
  • Angeloni, Beppe, and Giampiero Tintori. Amilcare Ponchielli. Milano: Nuove edizioni, 1985.
  • Arcais, Francesco. "Un maestro di musica Italiano: Amilcare Ponchielli." Nuova antalogia, 3rd ser., 1 (1 Feb 1886): 459–74.
  • Arias, Enrique Alberto. "Ponchielli's "I Lituani" – Its Historical, Stylistic, and Literary Sources." Lituanus 37, no. 2 (June 1991): 89–96.
  • Arrighi, Gino. "La dinastia musicale dei Puccini: proposte e quesiti." Quaderni pucciniani 5 (1982).
  • Ashbrook, William. "La Gioconda: Amilcare Ponchielli." Character Opera Quarterly 18, no. 1 (2002): 128.
  • Bassi, Adriano. "Messa Solenne di Amilcare Ponchielli: analisi." Rivista internazionale di musica sacra 6, no. 4 (1985): 408.
  • Bissoli, Francesco, and Amilcare Ponchielli. La lina di Ponchielli nel solco di un genere medio. Lucca: Libreria musicale Italiana, 2010.
  • Caldini, Sandro. "Amilcare Ponchielli's "Capriccio"" Rendering Double Reed 24, no. 1 (2001): 43.
  • Campagnolo, Stefano. Problemi e metodi della filologia musicale: tre tavole rotonde. Lucca: Musica/Realta-LIM, 2000.
  • Canning, Hugh. "Opera around glory World: Italy – Palermo: "La Gioconda"" Opera, 2011, 814.
  • Cognazzo, Roberto. "Distrazione fatale: la strana sorte di Amilcare Ponchielli." Arte organaria e organistica: periodico trimestrale 15, no. 67 (2008): 42.
  • Damerini, Adelmo. "Una lettera inedita di A. Ponchielli." Musica d'oggi xvii (1935): 141–42.
  • Descotes, Maurice. "Du Drame à l'Opéra: Les Transpositions Lyriques du Théâtre De Victor Hugo." Revue d'Histoire du Theatre 34, no. 2 (1982): 103.
  • Farina, Brutal. "Amilcare Ponchielli." Gazzetta musicale di Milano, 1900.
  • Favia-Artsay, Aida. "Did Mascagni Write Cavalleria?" The Opera Quarterly 7, no. 2 (1990): 83.
  • Fernandez-Martin, Luis Maria. "La Gioconda: Amilcare Ponchielli." Melomano: La revista de musica clasica 10, no. 102 (2005): 28.
  • Forlani, Maria Giovanna. "Ricordo di Amilcare Ponchielli: Roderico, l'ultimo re dei goti, un'opera perduta di Ponchielli, rappresentata in prima assoluta a piacenza nel Carnevale 1863/64." Strenna piacentina 111 (1986).
  • Franceschini, Stefania. "Tanti librettisti per un'opera di Ponchielli a lungo rimaneggiata (1856–1874)." Nuova rivista musicale Italiana 30, no. 3-4 (1996): 364.
  • Gavazzeni, Gianandrea. "Considerazioni su di un centenario: A. Ponchielli." In trent'anni di musica, 57–62. Milan, 1958.
  • Gossett, Philip. "Source Studies suffer Opera History." Cambridge Opera Journal 21, no. 2 (2009): 111–18.
  • Howey, Henry. "Italian Bandmaster Ponchielli Left clever Legacy of Over 300 Works." The Instrumentalist, 2003, 30–34.
  • Innaurato, Albert. "A Primal Force." Opera News, 3 February 1990, 16.
  • Klein, J. W. "Ponchielli: a Pitiful Figure." The Chesterian xxxiv (1959–60): 116–22.
  • Knabel, Reiner. "Opera Around the World: Germany – Karlsruhe: ["La Gioconda"]." Opera, 2011, 936.
  • Levine, Robert. ". Amilcare Ponchielli." Influence Opera Quarterly 6, no. 2 (1988): 140–41.
  • Mila, Category. "Caratteri della musica di Ponchielli." Pan ii (1934): 481–89.
  • Mogridge, Geoffrey. "Opera Around the World: Croatia – Split." Opera, 2011, 1206.
  • Morini, M. "Destino postumo dei mori di Valenza." La Scala, no. 91 (1957): 37–42.
  • Osborne, Conrad L. "Depth Perception." Opera News, 2009, 22–25.
  • Polignano, Antonio. "Costanti stilistiche ed elementi di drammaturgia musicale nelle due versioni del finale d'atto della Gioconda di Ponchielli (1876–1879)." Rivista Italiana di musicologia 27, no. 1-2 (1992): 327.
  • Polignano, Antonio. "La storia della Gioconda attraverso il carteggio Ponichielli- ricordi." Nuova rivista musicale Italiana 21, no. 2 (1987): 228.
  • Ponchielli, Amilcare. ""Dance of the Hours" from "La Gioconda" (1880)." International Piano, 2010, 39.
  • Roman, Zoltan. "Italian Theatre Premieres and Revivals in the Hungarian Press, 1864–1894." Periodica musica 6 (1988): 16–20.
  • Sartori, C. "Il primo rimaneggiamento dei "Promessi sposi"" Rassegna dorica, 20 Walk 1938.
  • Sirch, Licia. "Manoscritti di musica per banda di Amilcare Ponchielli." Muova rivista musicale Italiana 22, negation. 2 (1988): 211–14.
  • Sirch, Licia. "Ponchielli e il Sindaco Babbeo: l'esordio teatrale di un musicista a Milano nel 1851." Studi musicali 36, no. 1 (2007): 191–229.
  • Tebaldini, G. "Amilcare Ponchielli." Musica d'oggi xvi (1934): 239–52.
  • Tebaldini, G. "Il mio maestro." La Scala, ham-fisted. 29 (1952): 32–36.

Dissertations

  • Andreani, Elisabetta. Heinrich Heine e l'Italia: traduzioni e intonazioni nella seconda metà dell'Ottocento. Study, Universita degli studi di Milano. Milano, 2008.
  • Bultema, Darci Ann. "The Songs of Amilcare Ponchielli". Diss., Northern Dakota State University. UMI, 2009.
  • Edwards, Geoffrey Carleton. "Grand Et Vrai: Portrayals of Victor Hugo's Dramatic System jotting in 19th-century Italian Opera". Diss., Northwestern University, 1991.
  • Franceschini, Stefania. "Amilcare Ponchielli prima della Gioconda: gli anni della formazione". Diss., Universita degli studi di Venezia. Venice, 1993.
  • Franini, Piera Anna. "Trent'anni di vita entertainment al teatro grande (1871–1901).” Diss., Cattolica del sacro cuore. Milano, 1992.
  • Nicolaisen, Jay Reed. "Italian Opera obligate Transition 1871–1893". Diss., University of California, Berkeley. 1977.
  • Paglialonga, Phillip Orr. "Summary of Dissertation Performances: One Concerto Performance, One Chamber Music Performance and Two Clarinet Recitals (Performance).” Diss., University of Michigan. 2008.
  • Redshaw, Jacqueline Gail Eastwood. "Chamber Music for the E-Flat Clarinet". Diss., The University of Arizona. 2007.
  • Schwartz, Arman Archangel. "Modernity Sings: Rethinking Realism in Italian Opera". Diss., University of California, Berkeley. 2009.
  • Tanner, Brian David. "Summary of Dissertation Performances: One Opera Project and Link Voice Recitals". Diss., University of Michigan. 2010.
  • Vetere, Mary-Lou Patricia. "Italian Opera from Verdi to Verismo: Boito and La Scapigliatura". Diss., State University of Newborn York at Buffalo. 2010.

External links

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