Giovanni Battista Ferrandini
Giovanni Battista Ferrandini (c. 1710 – 25 October 1791), an Italian composer of the Baroque and Classical eras, was born in Venice, Italy and died in Munich, at the age of about 81. • Illustration — Interior of the Old Residenztheater, now Cuvilliés Theatre, which opened with Ferrandini's opera Catone in Utica in 1753 He was a child prodigy and entered the service of Duke Ferdinand Maria Innocenz of Bavaria at the age of 12 as an oboist. The newly constructed Bavarian Court Theatre (the Old Residenztheater, now known as the Cuvilliés Theatre after the architect) in Munich opened on 12 October 1753 with Ferrandini's opera Catone in Utica.
Giovanni Battista Ferrandini
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- 1791 · Munich.
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Giovanni Battista Ferrandini (c. 1710 – 25 October 1791), an Italian composer of the Baroque and Classical eras, was born in Venice, Italy and died in Munich, at the age of about 81. • Illustration — Interior of the Old Residenztheater, now Cuvilliés Theatre, which opened with Ferrandini's opera Catone in Utica in 1753 He was a child prodigy and entered the service of Duke Ferdinand Maria Innocenz of Bavaria at the age of 12 as an oboist. The newly constructed Bavarian Court Theatre (the Old Residenztheater, now known as the Cuvilliés Theatre after the architect) in Munich opened on 12 October 1753 with Ferrandini's opera Catone in Utica.
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1709
Giovanni Battista Ferrandini born at Venice.
1791
Giovanni Battista Ferrandini died at Munich.
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A recording of the opera made 250 years later in the same theatre is available (Oehms Classics OC 901). In 1755, Ferrandini retired to Padua, where in 1771, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and his father Leopold Mozart visited him in retirement.
• Operas • Giordo, 1727 • Il Sacrifico Invalido, 1729 • Adriano in Siria, 1737 • Catone in Utica, 1753 • Music for the coronation of Charles VII, Holy Roman Emperor in Frankfurt 1742 • Cantatas • Cantata Il pianto di Maria, 1739 (long misattributed to Handel as HWV 234: Il pianto di Maria or Giunta l'ora fatal) (Full recording.) • Cantatas for Holy Week: O spettacolo pur troppo funesto. Ecco quel tronco (recordings: Elisabeth Scholl, Echo du Danube on Accent Records, 2005)
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- 1.Bruce Haynes The eloquent oboe: a history of the hautboy 1640-1760 2001 Page 339 "Among the composers were Torri and Giovanni Battista Ferrandini. Ferrandini, a ' Wunderknabe', had first entered the service of Duke Ferdinand in Bavaria at the age of 12 in 1722. At that time he was an hautboy player." - this must be
- 2.Darwin Floyd Scott For the love of music: festschrift in honor of Theodore Front 2002 Page 52 "... Giovanni Battista Ferrandini (ca. 1710-1791) was active in Munich, where his opera seria Catone in Utica opened the new Cuvillies Theater at the Residenz in 1753.
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