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
editOperas
edit| 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
edit- La madamigella (libretto by Antonio Palomba, 1755, Naples)
- Il mercato di Malmantide (dramma giocoso per musica, libretto by Carlo Goldoni, 1758, Venice)
Other works
edit- 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
edit- Giuseppe Scarlatti: I portentosi effetti della Madre Natura Ensemble 1700 1CD DHM 2023
References
edit- ^ Malcolm Boyd and Gordana Lazarevich: "Scarlatti." in Grove Music Online (subscription required)
- ^ Roberto Pagano, et al.: "Scarlatti." in Grove Music Online (subscription required)