PAISIELLO, GIOVANNI - Portrait. Copy from the library of the Ist. di Arch. e st. dell'arte, music section - Rome.
PAISIELLO, GIOVANNI. - Musician, b. in Taranto on 9 May 1740, d. in Naples on 5 June 1816. He did his first studies in his homeland and then completed them in Naples at the Conservatory of S. Onofrio.
His first compositions were some masses, psalms and motets, remarkable for originality of form, which were followed by some operas that enjoyed lively success not only in Naples but also in other cities of Italy and Europe. Summoned to St. Petersburg by Catherine II, he remained there 8 years
(1776-84), having Il barbiere di Siviglia performed there. In 1784, on the return journey, he stopped over in Warsaw and in Vienna, received enthusiastically. In Naples he held the post of maestro di cappella at court and in 1802 he was summoned to Paris by Napoleon, but after a year he returned to Naples as maestro di cappella at court until his death.
A composer of incomparable brio, creator of the semiseria opera, P. wrote the oratorio La Passione di Cristo (Warsaw 1784), some sacred cantatas, about thirty-five masses, a Miserere, a Te Deum, sonatas, symphonies, concertos, chamber arias, etc., in which the harmony is always original, the instrumentation expressive and full of lively naturalness.
Bibliography7 worksF. Schizzi, Della vita e degli studi di G. P., Milano 1833; S. Panaro, P. in Russia, dalle sue lettere, in Rassegna pugliese, 25 (1910), p.
BIBL.: F. Schizzi, Della vita e degli studi di G. P., Milano 1833; S. Panaro, P. in Russia, dalle sue lettere, in Rassegna pugliese, 25 (1910), p. 215 ff.; A. Della Corte, P., Torino 1922; id., L'Opera comica italiana nel '700, II, Bari 1923, p. 232 ff.; F. Barberio, I primi dieci anni di vita artistica di G. P., in Ric. mus. ital., 29 (1923), p. 264 ff.; A. Cametti, P. alla Corte di Vienna, Roma 1920; E. Faustini-Fasini, Opere teatrali, oratori e cantate di G. P. (1764-1803), Bari 1940.
Mattei, Silverio. “Paisiello, giovanni.” In Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. IX, coll. 557–558. Città del Vaticano: Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1952. https://azioneromana.com/article/paisiello-giovanni.
MLA
Mattei, Silverio. “Paisiello, giovanni.” Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. IX, Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1952, coll. 557–558. Azione Romana, https://azioneromana.com/article/paisiello-giovanni.
BibTeX
@incollection{ec9_paisiello_giovanni,
author = {Mattei, Silverio},
title = {Paisiello, giovanni},
booktitle = {Enciclopedia Cattolica},
volume = {IX},
pages = {557--558},
note = {Cited by column},
publisher = {Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico},
address = {Città del Vaticano},
year = {1952},
url = {https://azioneromana.com/article/paisiello-giovanni}
}
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