Gennaro Manna
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Background information | |
Born | Naples, Italy | 12 December 1715
Died | 28 December 1779 Naples, Italy | (aged 64)
Genres | Opera |
Occupation(s) | Composer, teacher |
Gennaro Manna (12 December 1715 - 28 December 1779) was an Italian composer based in Naples. He was a member of the Neapolitan School. His compositional output includes 13 operas and more than 150 sacred works, including several oratorios.[1]
Life
The son of Giuseppe Maria Manna and Caterina Feo (sister of the composer
After his return to Naples, he composed Festa teatrale per la nascita dell'Infante with
Within his family his brother Giacinto Mannait and his cousin Cristoforo Manna also gained fame as musicians.
Style
Unlike his contemporaries Niccolò Jommelli, Gaetano Latilla and Girolamo Abos, he left the field of opera buffa to deal only with that of the opera seria, in which he was much appreciated by the composers of his time. In his compositional style there are elements of both the galant style and pre-classicism.
Works
Theatrical works
- Tito Manlio (opera seria, libretto by Gaetano Roccaforte, 1742, Rome)
- Siroe re di Persia (opera seria, libretto by Pietro Metastasio, 1743, Venice)
- Festa teatrale per la nascita dell'Infante (serenata, in collaboration with Nicola Bonifacio Logroscino, 1743, Naples, never staged)
- Artaserse (opera seria, revision of the opera of the same name by Leonardo Vinci, libretto by Pietro Metastasio, 1743, Naples)
- Achille in Sciro (opera seria, libretto by Pietro Metastasio, 1745)
- L'Impero dell'universo con Give (componimento drammatico, libretto by Ranieri de' Calzabigi, 1745, Naples)
- Lucio Vero ossia Il Vologeso (opera seria, libretto by Gaetano Majorano ed Annibale Pio Fabri)
- Arsace (opera seria, 1746, Naples)
- La clemenza di Tito (opera seria, 1747, Messina)
- Adriano placata (opera seria, 1748, Ferrara)
- Lucio Papirio dittatore (opera pastorale, libretto by Apostolo Zeno, 1748, Roma)
- Il Lucio Papirio (opera seria, 1749, Palermo)
- Eumene (opera seria, libretto by Apostolo Zeno, 1750, Turin)
- Didone abbandonata (opera seria, libretto by Pietro Metastasio, 1751, Venice)
- Demofoonte (opera seria, libretto by Teatro Regio di Torino directed by Giovanni Battista Somis)
- Enea in Cuma (serenata, 1760, Naples)
- Il Sacrificio di Melchisedec (componimento drammatico, libretto by M. Tarzia, 1776, Naples)
Sacred music
Oratorios
- Gios re di Giuda (1747, Naples)
- Sepultra Sarae sive Pietas in mortuos (1748)
- Davide (Palermo, 1751)
- Rubri maris trajectus (Monte Reale, 1761)
- Debora (1769)
- Esther (1770)
- Il Seraficio Alverna (Naples)
- Israelis liberato sive Esther (Monte Reale)
Other sacred music
- 12 masses
- 7 Gloria
- Domine ad adiuvantum for 5 voices
- 2 Credo
- 2 Magnificat
- 3 Te Deum
- 14 Lamentations
- Christus
- 2 Lezioni per la notte del Santissimo Natale
- 3 Jube Domine benedicere for solo voice
- 3 Benedictus Dominus
- Confitebor for solo voice
- 12 Dixit
- 2 Laudate pueri for solo voice
- Gloria patri for solo voice
- 2 Veni sponsa
- Lauda Sion for 5 voices
- Pange lingua
- 4 Inni
- Tantum ergo for solo voice
- Cori di anime penanti for 5 voices
- 35 motets with choir
- 14 motets and arias for solo voice
- Passion according to John
- Other minor works
References
- ^ Rochus Freiherr von Liliencron; Franz X. von Wegele; Anton Bettelheim (1884). Allgemeine deutsche Biographie ...: Auf Veranlassung ... Duncker & Humblot. p. 374.