Francesco Manelli
Francesco Manelli (Mannelli) (c. 1595 – 1667) was a Roman Baroque composer, particularly of opera, and a theorbo player. He is most well known for his collaboration with fellow Roman composer Benedetto Ferrari in bringing commercial opera to Venice.
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Francesco Manelli
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- Died
- 1667 · Parma.
- Occupation
- composer · opera singer
- Fields
- opera · classical
- Movements
- Baroque music
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- Romano Micheli
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Francesco Manelli (Mannelli) (c. 1595 – 1667) was a Roman Baroque composer, particularly of opera, and a theorbo player. He is most well known for his collaboration with fellow Roman composer Benedetto Ferrari in bringing commercial opera to Venice.
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The first two works, in 1637 and 1638, to be put on commercially in the Teatro San Cassiano were both by Manelli – his L'Andromeda and La Maga Fulminata. For many years confused with the Franciscan friar Giovanni Battista Fasolo, because of the resemblances between Manelli's cantata Luciata (published in Musiche varie, op. 4 Venice, 1636), and Fasolo's dialogue Il carro di Madama Lucia (Rome, 1628), and the shared text of the first piece in both collections. In a comparison of the two cantatas Fasolo's version is "languid and melancholy", while Manelli's version is "spirited and biting". A mid-14th-century Florentine scholar of the same name, also called dei Pontigiano, was a close friend of Giovanni Boccaccio.
Operas, music for all of which is lost. • L'Andromeda (libretto: Benedetto Ferrari) (1637) • La maga fulminata (Ferrari) (1638) • Delia ossia La sera sposa del sole (Giulio Strozzi) (1639) • Il pastor regio (Ferrari) 1640 • L'Adone (Paolo Vendramin) (1640) • L'Alcate (Marc' Antonio Tirabosco) (1642) • Ercole nell'Erimanto (Bernardo Morando) (1651) • Le vicende del tempo (Morando) (1652) • Il ratto d'Europa (Paolo Emilio Fantuzzi / Elvezio Sandri) (1653) • La Filo, overo Giunone repacificata con Ercole (Francesco Berni) (1660) • La Licasta (Ferrari) (1664) Cantatas • Musiche varie Op. 4 (1636)
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• Duet - Ti lascio empia, inconstante. Musiche varie, Op. 4, Suzie LeBlanc (Soprano), Derek Lee Ragin (Countertenor), Love and Death in Venice, Teatro Lirico, dir. Stephen Stubbs, Virgin Classics, 1996
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- 1.Recorded on Il Fasolo, dir. Dumestre Alpha 2004
- 2.Recorded on Provenzale et al. Dialoghe. Cappella della Pietà de' Turchini dir. Florio. Symphonia 1995
- 3.Piero Mioli A voce sola: studi sulla cantata italiana del XVII secolo, Volume 1 p.332 1988
- 4.Dizionario biografico universale, Volume 3, by Felice Scifoni, David Passigli, publisher, Florence (1844); page 890.
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