FARINELLI, Giuseppe 1769-1836

Duetto Amore vi chiedo from the opera Teresa e Claudio. [Copyist manuscript full score]

Ca. 1802.

Folio (239 x 298 mm). Sewn. [i] (title), 21 pp. Notated in brown ink on 10-stave rastrum ruled paper, on J. Larking paper with watermark dated 1802.

Scored for soprano and bass voices, accompanied by strings, oboes, bassoons, and horns.

With small oval handstamp of the Glasgow Society of Musicians and "82" in contemporary manuscript to lower inner corner of title; "2" in contemporary manuscript to head of title.

Teresa e Claudio was first performed in Venice at the Teatro S Luca on 9 September 1801.

"Among the minor masters of opera buffa who bridged the 18th and 19th centuries, Farinelli stands out for his rich and facile invention, which very quickly made his success rival that of his older contemporary Cimarosa, whose successor and cleverest imitator he was generally considered to be. .... Nearly two-thirds of his theatrical output was written during the decade 1800–10, the period of his greatest success, before Rossini threw his generation into the shade and probably contributed to the total cessation of Farinelli’s operatic composition after 1817. A typical practitioner of the Neapolitan opera style of the end of the 18th century, he remained largely untouched by Rossini’s influence." Giovanni Carli Ballola in Grove Music Online.

Item #40220

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