[?]ZINGARELLI, Niccolò 1752-1837

Fidati al braccio mio Aria Buffa. [Copyist musical manuscript full score]

Italy: ca. 1791.

Oblong quarto (187 x 264 mm). Bound with brown silk ribbons. [i] (title), 33, 1f. (blank) pp. Watermark "J.M."

Scored for bass (designated "[?]March:"), accompanied by flutes, horns, and strings.

Cancellation and modification to text on p. 13

This aria is not the work of the same name in Zingarelli's Pirro, re d'Epiro, first performed in Milan at the Teatro alla Scala on 26 December 1791); it may, however, be an alternate version of that aria, possibly composed by Zingarelli or a composer in his circle.

"Zingarelli was the last major composer of  opera seria. ... Many of his best operas, including Artaserse, Pirro, Giulietta e Romeo, Ines de Castro and Edipo a Colono, were revised by his contemporaries. Although he was not particularly inclined to comedy, he wrote at least two successful comic operas, Il mercato di Montefregoso (1792) and Il ritratto (1799), both performed at La Scala, Milan.” R.M. Longyear, revised by Rodobaldo Tibaldi in Grove Music Online


Comedic stuttering or stammering motifs make an appearance in the 17th and 18th measures.

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