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Paolo Scalabrini

Paolo Scalabrini (* 1713; † 1803 or 28 February 1806 in Lucca) was an Italian opera composer. Life

From 1742 Scalabrini worked as Kapellmeister for Pietro Mingotti's opera company, with which he travelled through Germany and Austria. In this function he composed and arranged numerous operas. In 1747 he and Mingotti arrived in Copenhagen, where they gave annual performances until 1756. In 1748 he married the soprano Grazia Mellini. When Johann Adolf Scheibe lost his position as Court Kapellmeister in Copenhagen in the same year, Scalabrini became his successor, until Giuseppe Sarti took over this position in 1753. Scalabrini continued to stay in Copenhagen and composed operas, but also intermezzi and Singspiele, which were translated into Danish. He later resumed his travels for a few years, but returned to Copenhagen in 1768 as the director of an opera company he had put together himself in Italy. From 1775 until the death of his wife in 1781, he again took over the position of Court Kapellmeister. He then returned to Italy. There he married the singer Teresa Torre, who had already come with him to Copenhagen in 1768. He died in 1806 in Lucca [1][2].

On the occasion of the imperial coronation of Francis I Stephen in September 1745, a special ceremony was held on his birthday on 8 September 1745. The opera La clemenza di Tito was performed by Mingottis Operngesellschaft in Hamburg on his birthday on December 8, 1745, framed by two works by Scalabrini: the "prologo" Per l'esaltazione al trono imperiale di Francesco re di Gierusalemme based on a text by Francesco Darbes and an "epilogo" without its own title, with a text by Barthold Heinrich Brockes[3][4]. Works

Only a few of Scalabrini's compositions have survived, including the operas Den forliebte Skildrer, Kærlighed uden Strømper, Oraklet and the Sinfonia zu Artaserse. In addition, twenty arias and six symphonies have survived.[1] According to the information in the librettos, in many of his operas the music of some of the arias was written by other composers. Thus, at least some of them are pasticci arranged by Scalabrini [A 1].

oratorios

Il Giuseppe riconosciuto, componimento sagro per musica; libretto: Pietro Metastasio; 1742, Venice, Oratorio di San Filippo Neri; also on 24 March 1746 in Hamburg; 1750 in the oratorio di San Filippo Neri in Bologna [Digitalisat 1].

Didone. Title page of the libretto, Hamburg 1744

stage works

Sirbace, dramma per musica; libretto: Claudio Nicola Stampa; Carnival 1742, Graz, Theater am Tummelplatz; some arias were written by other composers [Digitalisat 2].

Oronte, re de Sciti, dramma per musica; libretto: Carlo Goldoni; 1 September 1742, Graz, Theater am Tummelplatz; also on 21 January 1745 at the Opera on Gänsemarkt in Hamburg; some arias were written by other composers such as Niccolò Jommelli and Johann Adolf Hasse [2].

Venceslao, dramma per musica; libretto: Apostolo Zeno; 1743, Linz, Theater im Ballhaus; also on 31 October 1743 at the Opera on Gänsemarkt in Hamburg; 1748 at the Kongelige Teater in Copenhagen; some arias were written by other composers [Digitalisat 3].

Caio Fabrizio, dramma per musica; libretto: Apostolo Zeno; Carnival 1743, Graz, Theater am Tummelplatz; some arias were written by other composers [Digitalisat 4].

La Semiramide riconosciuta, dramma per musica; libretto: Pietro Metastasio; Carnival 1743, Graz, Theater am Tummelplatz; also on 9 February 1745 at the Opera on Gänsemarkt in Hamburg; some arias were written by other composers [Digitalisat 5].

L'asilo d'Amore, festa teatrale; libretto: Pietro Metastasio; libretto printed in Vienna 1743 [5].

Artaserse, dramma per musica; libretto: Pietro Metastasio; 13 November 1743, Hamburg, Opera on Gänsemarkt; revived on 24 October 1746; on 29 January 1749 at Charlottenborg Palace in Copenhagen; some arias were written by other composers [Digitalisat 6].

Siroe, re di Persia, dramma per musica; libretto: Pietro Metastasio; 1743, Prague, Theater im Ballhaus; also on 14 December 1743 at the Opera on Gänsemarkt in Hamburg; Carnival 1744 in Prague; 1749 at the Kongelige Teater in Copenhagen.

Antigono, dramma per musica; libretto: Pietro Metastasio; Lent 1744, Prague, Nuovo Teatro; also on 10 September 1744 and on 11 November 1747 at the Opera on Gänsemarkt in Hamburg; some arias by other composers [Digitalisat 7].

Adelaide, dramma per musica (pasticcio based on the Ottone by Gennaro D'Alessandro); [6] Libretto: Antonio Salvi; 23 July 1744, Hamburg, Opera on Gänsemarkt; in the same year also at the Theater im Reithaus in Leipzig [Digitalisat 8].

Didone, dramma per musica; libretto: Pietro Metastasio; 6 August 1744, Hamburg, Opera on the Gänsemarkt; revived on 9 November 1746; also in Munich in 1747; [7] 1748 at the Kongelige Teater in Copenhagen; some arias were written by other composers [Digitalisat 9].

Demetrio, dramma per musica; Libretto: Pietro Metastasio; 4 November 1744

Il Catone in Utica, dramma per musica; libretto: Pietro Metastasio; 25 December 1744, Hamburg, Opera at the Gänsemarkt; some arias were written by other composers

Diomeda, dramma per musica; libretto: Francesco Passarini; 28 July 1745, Hamburg, Opera on Gänsemarkt; also in 1753 at the Kongelige Teater in Copenhagen; some arias were written by other composers [Digitalisat 11].

Per l'esaltazione al trono imperiale di Francesco re di Gierusalemme. Prologue; libretto: Francesco Darbes; 8 December 1745, Hamburg, Opera on the Gänsemarkt [digitalization 12].

Per l'esaltazione al trono imperiale di Francesco re di Gierusalemme.] Epilogo; libretto: Barthold Heinrich Brockes; 8 December 1745, Hamburg, Opera on the Gänsemarkt [digitalization 13].

L'Arminio principe de Cauci e de Cherusci, dramma per musica; libretto: Antonio Salvi; 12 January 1746, Hamburg, Opera at the Gänsemarkt [digitalization 14].

La gara, o sia La pace degl'eroi, componimento drammatico; libretto: Francesco Darbes; 24 February 1746, Hamburg, Opera on the Gänsemarkt.

Angelica e Medoro, serenata; libretto: Pietro Metastasio; 25 April 1746, Hamburg, Opera on the Gänsemarkt.

Il tempio di Melpomene su le rive dell'Alstra; libretto: Francesco Darbes and Friedrich von Hagedorn; 31 January 1747, Hamburg, Opera on Gänsemarkt; with music by Georg Philipp Telemann, Filippo Finazzi, Carl Christoph Hachmeister and Cyrill von Wich. [Digitalisat 15].

Merope, dramma per musica; libretto: Apostolo Zeno; 8 February 1747, Hamburg, Opera on Gänsemarkt; also in Dresden; some arias were written by other composers [Digitalisat 16].

Adriano, dramma per musica; Libretto: Pietro Metastasio; 1749, Copenhagen, Det Kongelige Teater.

Alessandro nell'Indie, dramma per musica; Libretto: Pietro Metastasio; 1749, Copenhagen, Det Kongelige Teater.

Il marito vizioso, intermezzo; Libretto: Francesco Darbes; 1750, Copenhagen, Det Kongelige Teater.

Don Chisciotte, intermezzo per musica; libretto: Francesco Darbes; autumn 1752, Copenhagen; also 1753 in Hamburg [Digitalisat 17].

Lucio Vero, dramma per musica; libretto: Apostolo Zeno; November 1746, Braunschweig, Hoftheater; authorship doubtful; German translation of the libretto presumably by Georg Caspar Schürmann; arias by Carl Heinrich Graun; also on 28 November 1746 at the Opera on Gänsemarkt in Hamburg; at the Winter Mass 1756 again in Braunschweig [8][9].

The one skildrer loved; after Molière: Le Sicilien; 1756, Copenhagen.

Koerlighed uden strømper (Love without stockings); Libretto: Johan Herman Wessel; 1773, Copenhagen. [1]

oracle; Libretto: Saint Foix, Gellert; 1776, Copenhagen. [1]

Anagilda, azione drammatica; 1772, Copenhagen, Det Kongelige Teater

Instrumental works

Six symphonies in D major, C major, G major, D major, F major and B major

literature

Scalabrini, Paolo. In: Grove Music Online (English; subscription required).

Nils Schiørring: Scalabrini, Paolo. In: Ludwig Finscher (Ed.): Music in history and present. Second edition, personal part, volume 14 (Riccati - Schönstein). Bärenreiter/Metzler, Kassel et al. 2005, ISBN 3-7618-1134-9, Sp. 1062 (online edition, subscription required for full access).

Paolo Scalabrini. In: Austrian encyclopedia of music. Online edition, Vienna 2002 ff., ISBN 3-7001-3077-5; printed edition: Volume 4, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 2005, ISBN 3-7001-3046-5.

Carlo Schmidl: Dizionario universale dei musicisti, Milan 1887.

Web links

Literature by and about Paolo Scalabrini in the catalogue of the German National Library

Works by and about Paolo Scalabrini in the German Digital Library

Sheet music and audio files by Paolo Scalabrini in the International Music Score Library Project

List of stage works by Paolo Scalabrini based on the MGG at Operone

Search for operas by Paolo Scalabrini (search term in the Autore field: "Scalabrini Paolo") in the Corago Information System of the University of Bologna

Digital copies

Il Giuseppe riconosciuto. Libretto (Italian), Venice 1742, digitized by the Biblioteca Nazionale Braidense. Sirbace. Libretto (Italian/German), Graz 1742. digitised by the Austrian National Library. Venceslao. Libretto (Italian/German), Hamburg 1743. digitised by the Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin. Caio Fabrizio. Libretto (Italian/German), Graz 1743. digitised by Google Books. La Semiramide riconosciuta. Libretto (Italian/German), Graz 1743, digitized by Google Books. Libretto (Italian/German), Hamburg 1743. digitized by Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin. Antigono. Libretto (Italian/German), Hamburg 1744. digitized by Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin. Adelaide. Libretto (Italian/German), Hamburg 1744. digitised by the Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin. Didone. Libretto (Italian/German), Hamburg 1746. digitised by the Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin. Demetrio. Libretto (Italian/German), Hamburg 1744. digitised by the Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin. Diomeda. Libretto (Italian/German), Copenhagen 1753. digitised by the Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin. Per l'esaltazione al trono imperiale di Francesco re di Gierusalemme. Prologo. Libretto (Italian/German), Hamburg 1745. Digitised by the Austrian National Library. Per l'esaltazione al trono imperiale di Francesco re di Gierusalemme. Epilogo. Libretto (Italian/German), Hamburg 1745. Digitised by the Lower Saxony State and University Library, Göttingen. L'Arminio principe de Cauci e de Cherusci. Libretto (Italian/German), Hamburg 1746. digitized by the Berlin State Library. Il tempio di Melpomene su le rive dell'Alstra. Libretto (Italian), Hamburg 1747. digitized by the Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin. Merope. Libretto (Italian/German), Dresden c. 1747. digitized by the Dresden State and University Library. Don Chisciotte. Libretto (Italian/German), Copenhagen 1752. digitized by the State and University Library of Lower Saxony, Göttingen.

Notes

In the textbooks the exact wording is: "The music is written by Mr. Paulo Scalabrini, except for some arias written by different authors".

Itemized bills

Nils Schiørring, Hans-Ewald Brennecke, Scalabrini, Paolo. In: Friedrich Blume (eds.): Music in History and Present (MGG). First edition, volume 11 (Rasch - Schnyder von Wartensee). Bärenreiter/Metzler, Kassel et al. 1963, DNB 550439609, Sp. 1470 (= Digital Library Volume 60, p. 66047-66048). nn.: Scalabrini, Paolo. In: Grove Music Online (English; subscription required). Roland Dieter Schmidt-Hensel: "La musica è del Signor Hasse detto il Sassone..." Johann Adolf Hasse's 'Opere serie' of the years 1730 to 1745, sources, versions, performances. Part II: List of works, sources and performances. V&R unipress 2009, ISBN 978-3-89971-442-5, p. 430. Dorothea Schröder: Contemporary history on the opera stage. Baroque music theatre in Hamburg in the service of politics and diplomacy (1690-1745). Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 1998, ISBN 3-525-27900-0, S. 282-284. Alfred Noe: The Italian court poets. The end of an era. In: Elisabeth Fritz-Hilscher (Ed.): In the service of a state idea. Arts and Artists at the Viennese Court around 1740 (= Wiener Musikwissenschaftliche Beiträge Volume 24). Böhlau, Vienna 2013, ISBN 978-3-205-78927-7. p. 38. Giovanni Tribuzio: L'opera ritrovata di Gennaro D'Alessandro e Carlo Goldoni: dall'"Ottone" per Federico Cristiano Leopoldo di Sassonia (Venezia, 1739-1740) all'"Adelaide" della compagnia di Pietro Mingotti (Praga, Lipsia e Amburgo, 1744). In: Galliano Ciliberti, Giovanni Tribuzio (eds.): O celeste armonia di lieta sorte. Lectures, lezioni e ricerche di musicologia. Morlacchi Editore University Press, Perugia 2019, ISBN 978-889392124-4, pp. 25-140 (online). Christine Fischer: Instrumented visions of female power. Maria Antonia Walpurgis' works as a stage for political self-dramatization (= Swiss contributions to music research. Volume 7). Bärenreiter, Kassel 2007, ISBN 978-3-7618-1829-9, p. 81. Lucio Vero (Paolo Scalabrini) in the Corago Information System of the University of Bologna. Retrieved on 15 December 2015. Lucius Verus. Library record of the Herzog August Bibliothek Wolfenbüttel. Retrieved December 15, 2015.

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