Vincenzo righini biography
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24 Variations on the arietta "Venni Amore" by Vincenzo Righini for piano (D major) WoO 65
Listening samples
Dedication
Composition
1790-91
Beethoven wrote the Righini Variations in 1790-91 while he was still in Bonn. In the summer of 1791 his friend Franz Gerhard Wegeler commented on a public performance by the young composer (Biographische Notizen, Koblenz, 1838, pp. 16f): Beethoven, until then not having heard a great pianist, was unaware of the instrument's finer nuances. His playing was harsh and rough. On a journey from Bonn to Mergentheim, where the Elector resided, Beethoven and his orchestra came to Aschaffenburg, where he was introduced to the pianist Franz Xaver Sterkel by Ries, Simrock and the Rombergs. Sterkel gave a light and pleasant performance and, according to father Ries, played like a lady. During the performance Beethoven stood next to him, listening closely. Now it was his turn, but he did so on
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Vincenzo Righini
Vincenzo Maria Righini (Bolonia, 22 de enero de 1756 – 19 de agosto de 1812) fue un compositor, cantante y maestro de capillaitaliano. En 1776 compuso la música de Il convitato di pietra, una dem las primeras ópera sobre el mito de Don Juan.[1]
Óperas seleccionadas[2]
[editar]- La vedova scaltra (1774)
- La bottegha del caffe osia Il maldicènte (1776)
- Il convitato di pietra osia Il dissoluto (1777)
- Armida (1782)
- L'incontro inaspettato (1785)
- Il Demogorgone ovvero Il filosofo confuso (1786)
- Enea del Lazio (1793)
- Il trionfo d'Arianna (1793)
- Tigrane (1795)
- La selva incantata (1803)
Referencias
[editar]- ↑The Hutchinson. Encycopedia of Music. Edited by David Cummings, 1995.
- ↑Righini, Vincenzo en el Dizionario dell'Opera lirica, Firenze: Vallecchi, 1974.
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Righini, Vincenzo
Righini, Vincenzo , Italian tenor, conductor, singing teacher, and composer; b. Bologna, Jan. 22, 1756; d. there, Aug. 19, 1812. He was a choirboy at Bologna’s S. Petronio, making his debut in Parma (1775). He then became a member of Bustelli’s opera company in Prague (1776), the same year that he wrote for it his first opera, Il Convitato di pietra, which proved successful. He abandoned his singing career and went to Vienna as a singing master to Princess Elisabeth of Württemberg and director of the Italian Opera (1780). From 1787 to 1793 he was Kapellmeister at the Mainz electoral court. In 1788 he married the contralto Anna Maria Lehritter (1762–93). In 1793 he became court Kapellmeister and director of the Italian Opera in Berlin, where he was an influential figure. In 1793 he married the singer Henriette Kneisel (1767–1801); they divorced in 1800. After the Italian Opera was dissolved in the wake of war in 1806, he bided his time until the royal theater