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Overture to 'Il filosofo innamorato'
for orchestra
edited by Allan Badley
orchestra
Edition: Performance material
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Like many of Vienna’s most prominent musicians, Florian Leopold Gassmann (1729-1774) was a Bohemian by birth. Comparatively little is known about his early life and training although he was well enough established in Italy as a composer to secure a commission to compose his first opera, Merope, for the Teatro S Moisè, Venice, in the Carnival season of 1757. The work was a success and Gassmann composed a new opera annually for the next five years. His third opera, Gli uccelatori, was the first of his many settings of libretti by Carlo Goldoni. In 1763 he succeeded Gluck (as ballet composer) in Vienna and in 1772 succeeded Georg Reutter the Younger as Hofkapellmeister. His premature death in 1774 as a result of a fall from a carriage was regretted by many, including Joseph II who admired his music very much. Il filosofia innamorato (The Philosopher in Love) is a setting of Coltellini’s reworking of a Goldoni libretto which Gassmann had set earlier in his career as Filosofia ed amore. The new opera was given its premiere at the Burgtheater in 1771 and, unusually, the overture was advertised the following year in the Breitkopf Catalogue as one of three symphonies by Gassmann. Gassmann’s elegance and skill as a composer of theatrical music is evident at every turn in this sparkling overture.
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Title:
Overture to 'Il filosofo innamorato'
for orchestra
edited by Allan Badley
Edition:
Performance material
Publisher/Label:
Artaria Editions
Directory:
Hill 157
Duration:
5 ′
Technical Details
Product number:
LAE 158-01
Delivery rights:
Worldwide
Performances
Overture to 'Il filosofo innamorato'
Conductor: Anita Jehli
Orchestra: Orchestrina Chur
February 4, 2024 |
Sent (Switzerland)
Overture to 'Il filosofo innamorato'
Conductor: Anita Jehli
Orchestra: Orchestrina Chur
February 3, 2024 |
Thusis (Switzerland)
Overture to 'Il filosofo innamorato'
Conductor: Anita Jehli
Orchestra: Orchestrina Chur
February 2, 2024 |
Chur (Switzerland)
Overture to 'Il filosofo innamorato'
Conductor: Anita Jehli
Orchestra: AltstadtOrchester Zürich
June 24, 2018 |
Zürich (Switzerland) , Grossmünster
11:30
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