FIORAVANTI, Valentino 1764-1837

Salve Regina del Sig. Valentino Fioravanti Maes[t]ro Della Basilica Vaticana ... 50. [Copyist musical manuscript]

Italy: ca. 1790.

Folio (216 x 314 mm). Notated in black ink on 12-stave rastrum-ruled paper. [i] (title with doubled-rule border with decorative floral device to foot), 14, [i] (blank) pp.

Scored for solo soprano and choir (soprano, alto, tenor, and bass) with figured basso continuo, alternating between sections for soprano solo and basso continuo, and sections for soprano solo accompanied by a simple choral accompaniment and basso continuo.

Minor soiling to blank margins and outer edge of title and final blank page; small tears to lower margin of title and blank outer margin of final leaf.

One copy only located on OPAC SBN (ITICCUMSM051789) at the Biblioteca del Conservatorio di musica Santa Cecilia (Rome).

"Although [Fioravanti's] early education was in literature and art, he soon obtained his father’s permission to study music. His first lessons were with Gregorio Toscanelli, a singer at S Pietro, and he also had private counterpoint lessons from Giuseppe Jannacconi; in 1779 his father sent him to Naples for private lessons with Sala. In 1781 he returned to Rome, where he conducted at various theatres and composed his first opera, the intermezzo Le avventure di Bertoldino (1784). In 1787 the Teatro del Fondo in Naples commissioned a comic opera, Gl’inganni fortunati (1788), which secured his fame.

In Naples Fioravanti was a formidable rival to Paisiello, P.A. Guglielmi and Cimarosa. He toured Italy, writing both comic and serious operas for all the major theatres. His most popular, Le cantatrici villane, was written for Naples in 1799 during the revolutionary turmoil. An instant success, it was performed throughout Europe, becoming one of his few works to be revived in the 20th century (Vienna, 1907; Rome, 1951). ...

... In 1816 he succeeded Zingarelli as maestro di cappella of the Cappella Sistina. ... After 1824 he wrote only sacred music." Marvin Tartak in Grove Music Online.

Item #40946

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