Francesco Uttini
Encyclopedia
Francesco Antonio Baldassare Uttini (1723 Bologna
– 25 October, 1795) was an Italian composer
and conductor
who was active mostly in Sweden
.
He is best remembered today as a composer of opera
s in both the Italian and Swedish languages and for his five symphonies
. He provided the music for the first Swedish grand opera
, Thetis och Pelée, which was commissioned by Gustavus III
in 1772 and was successfully performed the following year.
He was married first to the opera singer Rosa Scarlatti
, and then to the opera singer Sofia Liljegren
. He was the father of the ballet dancer Carlo Uttini.
Bologna
Bologna is the capital city of Emilia-Romagna, in the Po Valley of Northern Italy. The city lies between the Po River and the Apennine Mountains, more specifically, between the Reno River and the Savena River. Bologna is a lively and cosmopolitan Italian college city, with spectacular history,...
– 25 October, 1795) was an Italian composer
Composer
A composer is a person who creates music, either by musical notation or oral tradition, for interpretation and performance, or through direct manipulation of sonic material through electronic media...
and conductor
Conducting
Conducting is the art of directing a musical performance by way of visible gestures. The primary duties of the conductor are to unify performers, set the tempo, execute clear preparations and beats, and to listen critically and shape the sound of the ensemble...
who was active mostly in Sweden
Sweden
Sweden , officially the Kingdom of Sweden , is a Nordic country on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. Sweden borders with Norway and Finland and is connected to Denmark by a bridge-tunnel across the Öresund....
.
He is best remembered today as a composer of opera
Opera
Opera is an art form in which singers and musicians perform a dramatic work combining text and musical score, usually in a theatrical setting. Opera incorporates many of the elements of spoken theatre, such as acting, scenery, and costumes and sometimes includes dance...
s in both the Italian and Swedish languages and for his five symphonies
Symphony
A symphony is an extended musical composition in Western classical music, scored almost always for orchestra. A symphony usually contains at least one movement or episode composed according to the sonata principle...
. He provided the music for the first Swedish grand opera
Grand Opera
Grand opera is a genre of 19th-century opera generally in four or five acts, characterised by large-scale casts and orchestras, and lavish and spectacular design and stage effects, normally with plots based on or around dramatic historic events...
, Thetis och Pelée, which was commissioned by Gustavus III
Gustav III of Sweden
Gustav III was King of Sweden from 1771 until his death. He was the eldest son of King Adolph Frederick and Queen Louise Ulrica of Sweden, she a sister of Frederick the Great of Prussia....
in 1772 and was successfully performed the following year.
He was married first to the opera singer Rosa Scarlatti
Rosa Scarlatti
Rosa Scarlatti was an Italian opera singer.Rosa Scarlatti was active in the Italian Opera in Sweden from 1754 to 1757. She also performed at Public concerts at the Swedish House of Lords....
, and then to the opera singer Sofia Liljegren
Sofia Liljegren
Sofia Ulrika Liljegren, married surname Uttini, , was a Swedish-Finnish soprano. She was likely the first professional opera singer from Finland, although she was active in Sweden. She was given the title Hovsångare.- Biography :...
. He was the father of the ballet dancer Carlo Uttini.
Works
- 1743: Alessandro nelle Indie, opera seriaOpera seriaOpera seria is an Italian musical term which refers to the noble and "serious" style of Italian opera that predominated in Europe from the 1710s to c. 1770...
, GenoaGenoaGenoa |Ligurian]] Zena ; Latin and, archaically, English Genua) is a city and an important seaport in northern Italy, the capital of the Province of Genoa and of the region of Liguria.... - 1748: Astianatte, dramma seria, CesenaCesenaCesena is a city and comune in the Emilia-Romagna region of northern Italy, south of Ravenna and west of Rimini, on the Savio River, co-chief of the Province of Forlì-Cesena. It is at the foot of the Apennines, and about 15 km from the Adriatic Sea.-History:Cesena was originally an Umbrian...
- 1750: Demofoonte, opera seria, FerraraFerraraFerrara is a city and comune in Emilia-Romagna, northern Italy, capital city of the Province of Ferrara. It is situated 50 km north-northeast of Bologna, on the Po di Volano, a branch channel of the main stream of the Po River, located 5 km north...
- 1752: Siroe, opera seria, HamburgHamburg-History:The first historic name for the city was, according to Claudius Ptolemy's reports, Treva.But the city takes its modern name, Hamburg, from the first permanent building on the site, a castle whose construction was ordered by the Emperor Charlemagne in AD 808...
- 1753: L'olimpiade, opera seria, CopenhagenCopenhagenCopenhagen is the capital and largest city of Denmark, with an urban population of 1,199,224 and a metropolitan population of 1,930,260 . With the completion of the transnational Øresund Bridge in 2000, Copenhagen has become the centre of the increasingly integrating Øresund Region...
- 1754: Zenobia, opera seria, Copenhagen
- 1755: La Galatea, opera seria, DrottningholmDrottningholmDrottningholm, literally "Queen's Islet", is a locality situated in Ekerö Municipality, Stockholm County, Sweden, with 410 inhabitants in 2005....
- 1755: L'isola disabitata, dramma per musicaDramma per musicaDramma per musica is a term which was used by dramatists in Italy and elsewhere between the late-17th and mid-19th centuries...
, Drottningholm - 1755: Il rè pastore, dramma per musica, Drottningholm
- 1757: L'eroe cinese, opera seria, Drottningholm
- 1757: Adriano in Siria, opera seria, Drottningholm
- 1762: Cythère assiégée, opéra comique, StockholmStockholmStockholm is the capital and the largest city of Sweden and constitutes the most populated urban area in Scandinavia. Stockholm is the most populous city in Sweden, with a population of 851,155 in the municipality , 1.37 million in the urban area , and around 2.1 million in the metropolitan area...
- 1764: Il sogno di Scipione, dramatic serenade, Stockholm
- 1765: Soliman II, ou Les trois sultanes, opéra comique, Stockholm
- 1766: Le gui de chène, opéra comique, Stockholm
- 1766: Psyché, tragédie lyrique, Drottningholm
- 1768: L'aveugle de Palmyre, opéra comique, Drottningholm
- 1773: Thetis och Pelée, grand operaGrand OperaGrand opera is a genre of 19th-century opera generally in four or five acts, characterised by large-scale casts and orchestras, and lavish and spectacular design and stage effects, normally with plots based on or around dramatic historic events...
, Stockholm - 1774: Aeglé, opéra-balletOpéra-balletOpéra-ballet was a popular genre of French Baroque opera, "that grew out of the ballets à entrées of the early seventeeth century". It differed from the more elevated tragédie en musique as practised by Jean-Baptiste Lully in several ways...
, Stockholm - 1774: Birger Jarl och Mechtilde, drama with divertissements, Stockholm
- 1776: Aline, drottning uti Golconda, opera, Stockholm
Sources
- Bertil H. van Boer, Martin Tegen. The New Grove Dictionary of OperaNew Grove Dictionary of OperaThe New Grove Dictionary of Opera is an encyclopedia of opera, considered to be one of the best general reference sources on the subject. It is the largest work on opera in English, and in its printed form, amounts to 5,448 pages in four volumes....
, edited by Stanley Sadie (1992), ISBN 0-333-73432-7 and ISBN 1-56159-228-5