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Giuseppe Scarlatti

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1820 lithograph of Giuseppe Scarlatti by Heinrich E. Winter

Giuseppe Scarlatti (1718 or 18 June 1723, Naples – 17 August 1777, Vienna) was a composer of opere serie and opere buffe. He worked in Rome from 1739 to 1741, and from 1752 to 1754 in Florence, Pisa, Lucca and Turin. From 1752 to 1754, and again from 1756 to 1759, he worked in Venice and for short periods in Milan and Barcelona. In 1760 he moved to Vienna, where he enjoyed the friendship of Christoph Willibald Gluck. "The third most important musician of his clan",[1] it is still uncertain whether he was born on 18 June 1723 as the nephew of Alessandro or in 1718 as nephew of Domenico. Giuseppe Scarlatti was married to the Viennese singer Barbara Stabili who died about 1753. By 1767 he had married Antonia Lefebvre, who that year bore him a son; she died three years later. Scarlatti died intestate in 1777 in Vienna.[2]

Works

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Operas

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Title Genre Sub­divisions Libretto Première date Place, theatre
Merope dramma per musica 3 acts Apostolo Zeno 23 January 1740 Rome, Teatro Capranica
Dario dramma per musica 3 acts G. Baldanza carnival 1741 Rome, Teatro Argentina
Arminio in Germania dramma per musica 3 acts C. Pasquini 24 June 1741 Florence, Teatro della Pergola
Siroe dramma per musica 3 acts Metastasio June 1742 Florence, Teatro della Pergola
Pompeo in Armenia dramma per musica 3 acts Bartolomeo Vitturi carnival 1744 Pisa, Pubblico
Ezio dramma per musica 3 acts Metastasio autumn 1744 Lucca, Civico
Olimpiade dramma per musica 3 acts Metastasio autumn 1745 Lucca, Pubblico
Il giocatore commedia per musica 2 acts   carnival 1747 Florence, Cocomero
Artaserse dramma per musica 3 acts Metastasio 26 August 1747 Lucca
Partenope dramma per musica 3 acts Silvio Stampiglia carnival 1749 Turin, Regio
Semiramide riconosciuta dramma per musica 3 acts Metastasio carnival 1751 Livorno, San Sebastiano
Adriano in Siria dramma per musica 3 acts Metastasio carnival 1752 Venice, San Cassiano
Demetrio dramma per musica 3 acts Metastasio 11 June 1752 Padua, Nuovo
I portentosi effetti della Madre Natura dramma giocoso per musica 3 acts Carlo Goldoni 11 November 1752 Venice, San Samuele
L'impostore opera buffa     1752 Barcelona, Santa Cruz
Alessandro nell'Indie dramma per musica 3 acts Metastasio 12 May 1753 Reggio Emilia, Pubblico
De gustibus non est disputandum dramma giocoso per musica 3 acts Carlo Goldoni carnival 1754 Venice, San Cassiano
Caio Mario dramma per musica 3 acts Gaetano Roccaforte 20 January 1755 Naples, Teatro di San Carlo
Antigona dramma per musica 3 acts Gaetano Roccaforte carnival 1756 Milan, Ducale
L'isola disabitata (La Cinese smarrita) dramma giocoso per musica 3 acts Carlo Goldoni autumn 1757 Venice, San Samuele
La serva scaltra dramma giocoso per musica 3 acts   autumn 1759 Venice, Teatro San Moisè
La clemenza di Tito dramma per musica 3 acts Metastasio carnival 1760 Venice, San Benedetto
L'Issipile dramma per musica 3 acts Metastasio autumn 1760 Vienna, Burgtheater
Pelopida (second act) dramma per musica 3 acts Gaetano Roccaforte carnival 1763 Turin, Regio
Bajazet dramma per musica 3 acts Agostino Piovene carnival 1765 Verona, Accademia Filharmonica
Gli stravaganti (La moglie padrona) commedia per musica 2 acts Alcindo Isaurense 11 February 1765 Vienna, Burgtheater
Armida festa teatrale   Marco Coltellini circa 1766 Vienna, Burgtheater
Dove è amore è gelosia intermezzo giocoso   Marco Coltellini 24 July 1768 Český Krumlov, Český Krumlov Castle
L'amor geloso azione teatrale comica     5 July 1770 Vienna, Schönbrunn Palace
Amiti e Ontario, o I selvaggi dramma per musica   Ranieri de' Calzabigi 1772 Vienna, Burgtheater

Dubious attributions

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  • La madamigella (libretto by Antonio Palomba, 1755, Naples)
  • Il mercato di Malmantide (dramma giocoso per musica, libretto by Carlo Goldoni, 1758, Venice)

Other works

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  • La Santissima Vergine annunziata (oratorio, 1739, Rome)
  • Componimento per musica (serenata, 1739, Rome)
  • L'amor della patria (serenata, libretto by Carlo Goldoni, 1752, Venice)
  • Les aventures de Serail (ballet, 1762, Vienna)
  • Imeneo, sognando talora (cantata for tenor and basso continuo)
  • I lamenti d'Orfeo (cantata for 2 voices and orchestra)
  • Amor prigioniero (cantata for 2 sopranos and instruments)
  • Various arias
  • Sonata for clavicembalo

Selected recordings

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  • Giuseppe Scarlatti: I portentosi effetti della Madre Natura Ensemble 1700 1CD DHM 2023

References

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  1. ^ Malcolm Boyd and Gordana Lazarevich: "Scarlatti." in Grove Music Online (subscription required)
  2. ^ Roberto Pagano, et al.: "Scarlatti." in Grove Music Online (subscription required)
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