Domenico Cimarosa (1749-1801) - Symphonie concertante pour Deux Flutes (1793)

Buon compleanno Domenico Cimarosa! 🎭🥂 Composer: Domenico Cimarosa (1749-1801) Work: Symphonie concertante (en Sol majeur) pour Deux Flutes (1793) Performers: Robert Dohn (1936-2015, flute); Helmut Steinkrаus (flute); Württеmbеrgisches Kammerorchester; Jörg Faerber (1929-2022, conductor) Symphonie concertante pour Deux Flutes (1793) 1. Allegro 0:00 2. Largo 9:47 3. Allegretto 13:57 Painting: Saverio della Gatta (1777-1829) - View of Naples at Beverello from the side of Palazzo Reale (1813) HD image: Painting: Francesco Saverio Candido (1768-1807) - Domenico Cimarosa HD image: Further info: Listen free: No available --- Domenico Cimarosa (Aversa, 17 December 1749 - Venice, 11 January 1801) Italian composer. Born into poverty, his family sent him to Naples to be educated. There his musical talent was recognized by a priest, Padre Polcano, who arranged for him to attend the Conservatorio di Santa Maria de Loreto, where his teachers included Niccolò Piccinni and Antonio Sacchini. In 1772 he had his first success at the Teatro Fiorentini with a pair of operas, Le stravaganze de conte and Le magie de Merlina e Zoroastro. Thereafter, he became one of the most popular and successful composers of opera buffa, working in virtually all of the major cities in Italy, beginning with Rome. In 1779 he was appointed as organist at the Cappella Reale in Naples. His fame grew internationally, so that in 1788 Russian empress Catherine II called him to St. Petersburg to write opera for the court. In 1792, however, economic circumstances forced her to reduce her theatre personnel, and Cimarosa left to accept an invitation of Holy Roman Emperor Leopold II to write for Vienna. Traveling to the Imperial capital, he sojourned in Warsaw, where he composed three operas, before continuing on to Vienna, where his opera Il matrimonio segreto was a stunning success. Upon his return to Naples, he joined with the opposition to the French occupation, eventually in 1799 being imprisoned and condemned to death. The sentence was commuted to banishment, and an intended return to St. Petersburg was thwarted by his death in Venice on his journey. It was suspected that he had been poisoned by rivals, but an inquest revealed no hint of foul play. Cimarosa was once of the most prolific composers of the Classical period in terms of opera buffa. He wrote almost 100 operas (mostly buffa but also including the late intermezzo), six oratorios, 17 Masses, 16 miscellaneous sacred works, 10 solo motets, two Requiems, 10 secular cantatas, eight duets, seven patriotic hymns, 88 keyboard sonatas, six string quartets, two symphonies, two concertos (one for harpsichord, one for two flutes), two sextets (including one with lyra organizzata), and several partimenti. His style is fluid and facile, with a special focus on lyricism. Cimarosa solidified the potpourri opera buffa overture as a sequence of non-sequitur material in a single movement. He was a central figure in opera of the late 18th century.