Vincenzo Manfredini
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Vincenzo Manfredini (22 October 1737 – 5 or 16 August 1799) was an
music theorist
.
Biography
Manfredini was born in Pistoia, in Tuscany.
He studied music with his father,
Pavel Petrovich
, heir to the throne.
In 1769 he returned with a pension to
Mozart along with his father
a year later in 1770. After two attempts at opera, Manfredini devoted himself mainly to writing and teaching, also publishing a set of symphonies (1776) and string quartets (?1781).
When
Pavel Petrovich became Emperor in 1796, he invited his former teacher, who arrived in September 1798, but took up no post and died in St. Petersburg the next year. Manfredini's theoretical research Regole armoniche, o sieno precetti ragionevoli per apprendere la musica (Venice, 1775) has two parts, an introduction to the elements of music and to keyboard accompaniment. It was translated into Russian by Stepan Degtyaryov
, a Russian composer, conductor and singer.
The observations of Manfredini on the proper method of teaching singing aroused vigorous opposition from
concertos
, and chamber works.
Vincenzo Manfredini died on 16 August 1799 in
Operas written for Russian imperial court
- Semiramide (Узнанная Семирамида, 1760, St Petersburg)
- L'Olimpiade (Олимпиада, 24 November 1762 Moscow)
- La pupilla (1763, St Petersburg)
- La finta ammalata (1763, St Petersburg)
- Carlo Magno (Карл Великий, 24 November 1763 St Petersburg)
References
- ISBN 9780937832493.
- Jean Grundy Fanelli, The Manfredini Family of Musicians of Pistoia, 1684-1803, in : Studi musicali, 26 (1997), pp. 187–232.
- David J. Buch, Magic flutes and enchanted forests : The supernatural in eighteenth-century musical theatre, The University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 2008, 450 pp.
- Julianne Baird, An 18th-Century Controversy About the Trill: Mancini vs. Manfredini, in : Early Music, xxv (1987), pp. 36–45.
- Reinhard Strohm (ed.), The eighteenth-century diaspora of Italian music and musicians, Brepols Publishers, Turnhout (BE), 2001, 356 pp.
- Marina Ritzarev (Rytsareva), Anna Porfireva, The Italian diaspora in eighteenth-century Russia, in : « The eighteenth-century diaspora of Italian music and musicians », (cf. supra).
- Oscar George Theodore Sonneck, Catalogue of Opera Librettos printed before 1800, 2 vol.,
- Michael Talbot, Manfredini, Vincenzo, in : The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, Macmillan, London, 1980, vol. XI, p. 615.
- Dennis Libby, Manfredini, Vincenzo, in : The Grove Dictionary of Opera, Macmillan, London, vol. 3, p. 182.
External links
- Free scores by Vincenzo Manfredini at the International Music Score Library Project (IMSLP)
- YouTube Harpsichord Concerto in B flat major, Irini Shneyerova, harpsichord, Musica Petropolitana, on period instruments.
- YouTube Piano Concerto in B flat major, Felicja Blumental, piano, Mozarteum Orchestra of Salzburg, Michiyoshi Inoue, conductor.
- YouTube Sonata III in d minor, Falerno Ducande, harpsichord.
- YouTube Sonata IV in C major, Falerno Ducande, harpsichord.
- YouTube Quartetto n. 5 in Sol Maggiore: II. Adagio, Quartetto Eleusi.
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