Bartolomeo Cordans ( Italian: Bartolomeo Cordans ; March 12, 1700 , Venice - May 14, 1757 , Udine ) - Italian composer and bandmaster of the Baroque era.
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| Date of Birth | May 12, 1700 |
| Place of Birth | Venice |
| Date of death | May 14, 1757 (57 years old) |
| Place of death | Udine |
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| Professions | composer , bandmaster |
| Instruments | Organ |
| Genres | opera , sacred music |
Biography
From 16 years old - a Franciscan monk in Venice. In 1724, he left the monastery by papal decree and served as an organist and taught spiritual singing at the Venetian church of San Giacomo di Rialto .
In 1735, he took up the position of cathedral bandmaster in Udine.
Creativity
B. Cordans is the author of a number of operas and sacred music.
Since 1728 he took up musical creativity, composing operas for the Venetian theaters. Dozens of these operas by Ormisda (1728), La generosita 'di Tiberio (1729), La Silvia (1730), Romilda (1731) and La Rodelinda (1732) are lost, but the libretto is preserved. He was a teacher in one of the four famous Venetian music schools.
He staged a number of operas in Venice, wrote many church compositions. Despite the fact that B. Cordans sold a whole series of his manuscripts , more than 60 of his masses (including San Romualdo (oratorio), Messa da Morti esequie a quattro con strumenti (1737), Messa da requiem in G minor (1738), Messa da Requiem, Missa due vocum aequalium ), more than 100 psalms (part of the two-seater), chants and litanies , as well as a large number of motets .
In Udine, Cordans focused exclusively on the composition of church and instrumental music. He expanded the orchestra in Udine, adding oboes , flutes , trombones and horns , which he used for special occasions.
Links
- Cordance // Musical Dictionary : in 3 volumes / comp. H. Riemann ; add. Russian department with staff. P. Weimarn and others; per. and all ext. under the editorship of Yu. D. Engel . - Per. from the 5th of it. ed. - Moscow — Leipzig: ed. B.P. Jurgenson , 1904 .
- Biography (Italian)
- Bartolomeo Cordans (Venice 1698 - Udine 1759) • Sonata in A major for Two Violins and Continuo