Niccolò Antonio Zingarelli
Niccolò Antonio Zingarelli (Italian pronunciation: [nikkoˈlɔ anˈtɔːnjo ddziŋɡaˈrɛlli]; 4 April 1752 – 5 May 1837) was an Italian composer, chiefly of opera.
Life
Early career
Zingarelli was born in Naples, where he studied (from the age of 7) at the Santa Maria di Loreto conservatory under Fenaroli and Speranza.
In 1789–1790 Zingarelli went to Paris to compose Antigone. He left France hurriedly at the time of the revolution and eventually returned to Italy. He was appointed maestro di cappella at Milan Cathedral in 1793, and remained there until 1794, when he took up the prestigious post of maestro di cappella at the Basilica della Santa Casa, Loreto.[1]
Rome
In 1804, Zingarelli was appointed choir master of the
Naples
In 1813, Zingarelli moved to Naples, where he became director of the conservatory. Then in 1816 he replaced Giovanni Paisiello as choir master of Naples Cathedral, a position he held until his death in 1837.
He died at Torre del Greco in 1837. Donizetti wrote a sinfonia funebre for his funeral.[2]
Works
Opera
In his early career, Zingarelli concentrated on writing opera; his debut was with the opera seria Montezuma, given at San Carlo on 13 August 1781, which aroused some interest, although the public in Naples found it too “learned”. Haydn revived it at the Eszterháza theatre in 1785.
Antigone, in which Zingarelli adopted some of the reform principles of French opera, won little favour in Paris; after that he eschewed innovation and contented himself with tried and tested formulae.
Zingarelli wrote 37 mainly comic operas in a prolific career. Between 1785 and 1803 he wrote mainly for
Surviving operas include:
- Montezuma (1781)
- Alsinda (1785)
- Ifigenia in Aulide (1787)
- Artaserse (1789)
- Antigone (1790)
- La morte di Cesare (1790)
- Pirro re di Epiro (1791)
- Annibale in Torino (1792)
- L'oracolo sannita (1792)
- Il mercato di Monfregoso (1792)
- Apelle (1793, revised as Apelle e Campaspe (1795)
- Quinto Fabio (1794)
- Il conte di Saldagna (1794)
- Gli Orazi e i Curiazi (1795)
- Giulietta e Romeo(1796)
- La morte di Mitridate (1797)
- Ines de Castro (1798)
- Carolina e Mexicow (1798)
- Meleagro (1798)
- Il ritratto (1799)
- Il ratto delle Sabine (1799)
- Clitennestra (1800)
- Edipo a Colono (1802)
- Il bevitore fortunato (1803)
- Berenice regina d'Armenia (1811)
There are 4 doubtful works; and 17 operas were lost including:
- La secchia rapita (1793)
- Baldovino (1811) (libretto by Jacopo Ferretti)
Sacred music
Being a deeply religious
. For Loreto he composed 541 works, including 28 masses.In 1829, aged 80, he wrote a Cantata Sacra, based on
Less than a month before his death he produced an oratorio, The Flight into Egypt, and his
Educational works
Zingarelli wrote two influential books of partimenti, which are the biggest corpus of partimenti after those of Fedele Fenaroli.[5]
See also
References
- ISBN 0-02-870240-9.
- ISBN 978-0-521-27663-4.
- JSTOR 3356498.
- ^ A list may be found at nl:Nicola Antonio Zingarelli#Missen, cantates, oratoria en gewijde muziek on the Dutch Wikipedia.
- ISBN 978-0-19-539420-7.
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Herbermann, Charles, ed. (1913). "Niccolò Antonio Zingarelli". Catholic Encyclopedia. New York: Robert Appleton Company.
Further reading
- Caraci, Maria (1988). "Niccolò Zingarelli tra mito e critica". Nuova rivista musicale italiana. 22: 375–422.
External links
- Free scores by Niccolò Antonio Zingarelli in the Choral Public Domain Library (ChoralWiki)
- Free scores by Niccolò Antonio Zingarelli at the International Music Score Library Project (IMSLP)