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The biography:
Alessandro Melani was born in Pistoia in 1639 into an old musical family, the last born child of Domenico di Santi d’Antonio who was at that date the cathedral bell ringer. He was encouraged from an early age in his musical studies as were his other six brothers and sisters of whom one became a composer, four became sopranos and one a bell ringer.
Little is known about his musical education but he was registered in the cathedral of Pistoia as a singer between the years of 1650 and 1660. During the following years he worked as the kappelmeister in Orvieto and Ferrara and in 1667 returned to Pistoia in the same position. He then moved to S. Maria Maggiore at Rome and in 1672 transferred to S. Luigi dei Francesi wher he remained till his death in 1703. This latter position was probably gained through the offices of his brother Atto. Atto, singer and diplomat to the court of Louis XIV, was highly considered by this latter and also by Cardinal Giulio Rospigliosi, later to become Pope Clement IX in 1667.
In Rome Alessandro Melani worked as a composer both of sacred music and operas, and for the role he played in the musical scene there may be interpreted as the precursor to Alessandro...
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Alessandro
Melani
(Pistoia
1639 -
Roma
1703)
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Vocal music:
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Opere
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L’empio punito (F. Acciaiuoli), Roma, Teatro Colonna, 1669
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Il trionfo della continenza considerata in Scipione Africano (G. Monteverdi), Fano, 1677
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Roberto ovvero il carceriere di se medesimo
(F. Nencini), Siena, 1677 (col titolo Il sospetto senza fondamento, Firenze, 1691)
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Ama chi t’ama
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S. Dimna
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Idaspe
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(F. Nencini), Siena, 1677 (col titolo Il sospetto senza fondamento, Firenze, 1691)
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Intermezzi
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Capriccio a tre: bacchettone, soldato e giocatore
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Oratori
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La morte di Oloferne (F. Nencini), Roma, S. Giovanni de’ Fiorentini, 1675
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Il fratricidio di Caino (B. Pamphili), Roma, palazzo Pamphili, 1677
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S. Francesca Romana, Palermo, 1682
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Golia abbattuto, Roma, 1685
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Il giudizio di Salomone, Bologna, 1686
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Lo scisma del sacerdozio, 1691, perduto
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Giuditta, Firenze, 1693
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S. Eugenia(G. Bussi), 1686
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S. Rosa di Viterbo, Firenze, 1693
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S. Filippo Neri, libretto pubblicato a Lucca nel 1715
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Cantate e serenate
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Ventotto cantate in onore di Luigi XIV, Roma, 1678
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Orazio Coclite
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The catalogue is organised referring to The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, vol.XII, London, 1980 and Dizionario della musica e dei musicisti, Le Biografie, vol. V, Torino, 1980. |
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