Dmitrij Bortnjanskij (1751-1825) - Sinfonia ’Il Quinto Fabio’ (1778)

с днем ​​рождения / з днем ​​народження Dmitrij Bortnjanskij! 📯👑 Composer: Dmitrij Bortnjanskij (1751-1825) Work: Sinfonia (C-Dur, Overture) ’Il Quinto Fabio’ (1778) Performers: Prаtum Intеgrum Orchestra Sinfonia ’Il Quinto Fabio’ (1778) 1. Allegro comodo 0:00 2. Rondo, andantino 6:45 3. Presto 9:59 Painting: Antoine Pierre Mongin (1761-1827) - Allegory of Love (1796) HD image: Drawing: Gustave Adolf Hippius (1792-1856) - Portrait of the Composer D.S. Bortniansky HD image: Further info: Listen free: No available --- Dmitrij Stepanovič Bortnjanskij [Bortnyansky, Bartniansky, Bortnjansky, Bortnyans’ky et al.] [Дмитро Степанович Бортнянський] (Glukhov [now Hlukhiv], 28 October 1751 - Sant Petersburg, 10 October 1825) Russian composer. He was born into an Ukrainian Cossack’s family in the city of Glukhov which at that time used to be the capital of Malorussia famous by its choir schools. Having studied in one of them for a year or two the seven-year-old boy endowed with the fine treble together with nine other best pupils had been sent to St-Petersburg and admitted to the Court Choirs as a chorister yet during the time of Elizabeth, Peter the Great’s daughter. The brilliant talents of the choir-boy haven’t been left unnoticed. Eleven-year-old Dmitry was entrusted with the part of Alzesta in the opera of the same name written by the court composer Hermann Raupach. Two years later when the production was renewed he performed the main men’s tenor part of Admet. The boy was appointed to the Shlyahetsky Corps to be taught dramatic arts and foreign languages. But what is the most important his successes were noticed by Baldassare Galuppi himself. The eminent maestro highly appreciated Bortnyansky’s talents and was teaching him vocal, clavicembalo playing and composition for over three years. Leaving Russia in summer, 1768, Galuppi urgently recommended to send the gifted young man to Italy to continue his education. In 1776 Bortnyansky makes his debut as an opera composer. The first performance of his ’Creont’ took place in the Venetian theater ’San Benedetto’. The next opera ’Alkid’ (1778) was also staged in Venice, in ’San Samuel’ theater presumably under Galuppi’s protection. The new composition testified to the indisputable maturity of the twenty-seven-year-old composer and his outstanding artistic talent. In April, 1779, he received from Russia the order signed by the Director of the Court Theaters I. P. Yelagin ’without a moment’s delay... to come back to the Motherland...’. Settled in Sant Petersburg for the rest of his life, he wrote music for the Russian Orthodox Church, as well as operas for the court of Catherine II. By 1796, her successor, Paul III, made him director of the Imperial Choir and recognized him as a national musical figure. As a composer, he wrote over 100 sacred works, including 45 sacred concertos, seven Orthodox liturgical settings, an Ave Maria and a Salve Regina, and numerous other pieces in Russian. In addition, he wrote seven operas, a large ode, several part songs, a quintet and a symphony (titled Symphonie concertante), two harp sonatas, and a march for wind band. Bortnjanskij’s style follows the harmony and lyricism of his Italian teacher, but the Russian works include paraphrases of Old Slavonic chant, as well as occasional folk elements, particularly in the instrumental compositions.