Giovanni Battista Volpe
Giovanni Battista Volpe (c. 1620–1691) was a Venetian composer for operas during the Baroque period. He was also known as Rovetta and Rovettino.
Also recorded as Giovanni Battista Rovetta · Rovettino
Giovanni Battista Volpe
- Born
- 1620 · Venice.
- Died
- 1691 · Venice.
- Nationality
- Republic of Venice
- Occupation
- composer
- Fields
- opera
- Movements
- Baroque music
- Teachers
- Francesco Cavalli · Giovanni Rovetta
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Giovanni Battista Volpe (c. 1620–1691) was a Venetian composer for operas during the Baroque period. He was also known as Rovetta and Rovettino.
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Volpe was an organist in St Mark's Basilica, and succeeded Giovanni Legrenzi as maestro di capella of the Cappella Marciana from 1690 until 1691. His uncle was Giovanni Rovetta, a composer and former maestro di capella. He collaborated with the librettist Aurelio Aureli on several projects. Volpe composed the music for the opera La costanza di Rosmonda, which premiered in Venice's Teatro Santi Giovanni e Paolo in 1659. He then composed the music for the opera Gl'amori d'Apollo e di Leucotoe, which premiered in the same theatre in 1663. He composed at least one more opera for the theatre. Volpe was the preferred choice of composers in absentia when changes had to be made to their work.
• La costanza di Rosmonda, libretto by Aurelio Aureli (premiered 1659) • Gl'amori d'Apollo e di Leucotoe, libretto by Aurelio Aureli (premiered 1663)
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- 1.Sadie, Julie Anne. Companion to Baroque Music. Oxford University Press. 1998. 978-0-19-816704-4.
- 2.Glixon, Jonathan E. Mirrors of Heaven Or Worldly Theaters?: Venetian Nunneries and Their Music. Oxford University Press. 244. 2017. 978-0-19-025912-9.
- 3.Alwes, Chester Lee. A History of Western Choral Music. Oxford University Press. 186. 2015. 978-0-19-936193-9.
- 4.Fenlon, Iain. Con Che Soavità: Studies in Italian Opera, Song, and Dance, 1580-1740. Oxford University Press. 1995. 9780198163701.
- 5.Glixon, Beth. Inventing the Business of Opera: The Impresario and His World in Seventeenth Century Venice. Oxford University Press. 2007. 978-0-19-534297-0.
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