Pedro António Avondano
Illustration — Pedro Avondano - Il mondo della luna - title page of the libretto - Lisboa 1765 Pedro António Avondano (16 April 1714 - 1782) was a Portuguese composer of Italian parentage. Pedro António was born and died in Lisbon. His father Pietro Giorgio Avondano of Genoa, was a violinist at the court of João V, one of many Italian musicians at the Portuguese court.
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Pedro António Avondano
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Illustration — Pedro Avondano - Il mondo della luna - title page of the libretto - Lisboa 1765 Pedro António Avondano (16 April 1714 - 1782) was a Portuguese composer of Italian parentage. Pedro António was born and died in Lisbon. His father Pietro Giorgio Avondano of Genoa, was a violinist at the court of João V, one of many Italian musicians at the Portuguese court.
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Mainly noted, like Domenico Scarlatti, for his harpsichord sonatas and sacred music.
• comic opera Il mondo della luna, with libretto by Carlo Goldoni • oratorio Il voto di Jefte • oratorio Adamo ed Eva • sacred works, inc. Tantum ergo • sinfonie Editions • Forty-nine Lisbon minuets by Pedro Antonio Avondano ed. Mary Farrar Hatchette, Tulane University of Louisiana, 1971 - 334 pages. Recordings • Avondano. Sonata in C major. Sousa Carvalho. Toccata in G minor, Allegro in D major. Ruggero Gerlin (harpsichord). Philips © 835769I.Y LP, 1967 • Harpsichord works. Rosana Lanzelotte. Portugaler, 2006. • Il mondo della luna, Naxos, 2020 • La Morte d'Abel, Presto Music, 2023 Some of Avondano's works were revived at the Festival d'Ambronay in 2006.
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- 1.Pedro António Avondano (1714-1782).
- 2.CD resgata legado musical português. Trabalho instrumental e vocal do século XVIII surpreende ao pôr em foco raízes do País. Por João Marcos Coelho. Estadão, 2 de maio de 2012.
- 3.Howard E. Smither A history of the oratorio: vol 3 p 42 1977 "Among the oratorio composers active in Lisbon were Pedro Antonio Avondano (1714-82), Giuseppe Scolari (?1720- after 1774), ..."
- 4.ANDRADE, A.A.S. A presença da flauta traversa em Portugal de 1750 a 1850. Universidade de Aveiro, 2005.
- 5.Manuel Carlos de Brito - Opera in Portugal in the Eighteenth Century (Book Review) G PONTIERO - Bulletin of Hispanic Studies, 1992 "The opening chapters establish the all-important influence of Spanish and Italian models before Portuguese composers such as Pedro Antonio Avondano, Luciano Xavier dos Santos and the much praised José de Sousa Carvalho became established in their own right in the ..."
- 6.JANEIRO, J.P. Contributo para o estudo da música religiosa de Francisco António de Almeida. Universidade Nova de Lisboa, 2004, pp viii, ix "... tipo de tratamento não pode deixar de causar estranheza, sobretudo quando comparamos com as entradas de outros compositores, nomeadamente, as bolseiros joaninos, António Teixeira e João Rodrigues Esteves, ou até de Pedro António Avondano, manifestamente mais .."
- 7.Sociabilidades mundanas em Lisboa: Partidos e Assembleias, c. 1760-1834". Por Maria Alexandre Lousada. Penélope: revista de história e ciências sociais, 19-20, 1998, pp. 129-160 "... Após o terramoto, o primeiro espaço público lisboeta vocacionado para o recreio, a primeira assembléia pública de que há notícia certa, funcionou precisamente em casa de um músico, concretamente do compositor e violinista da Real Câmara, Pedro Antônio Avondano"
- 8.Divino Sospiro leva ao CCB uma oratória de Avondano que é quase uma ópera. Orquestra apresenta hoje e amanhã um drama sacro assinado por um dos maiores compositores portugueses do século XVIII. Por Lucinda Canelas. Público, 21 de setembro de 2013
- 9.Obras de Referência da Cultura Portuguesa. Os Minuetes de Lisboa, de Pedro António Avondano (1714-1782).
- 10.O século dos portugueses. Entrevista com Massimo Mazzeo, diretor artístico do Divino Sospiro.
- 11.Biografia
- 12.Harpsichord and fortepiano 11-12 2006 Pedro Avondano: Sonatas Rosana Lanzelotte, harpsichord Portugaler 2014-2 Reviewed by John Collins "Only two volumes devoted to keyboard music are known to have been published in Portugal during the eighteenth century,.."
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