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The biography:
Born in Arezzo in 1623 Antonio Cesti started his musical career early performing as a cantor in the churches of his home town. At the tender age of fourteen he took the cassock entering the junior Franciscan monastery of S. Francis of Arezzo under the name of Brother Antonio (instead of Pietro as had been posited originally) and where his presence was documented until 1643.
Information is scarce about his musical education: it may be that he had been a student under Carissimi and Abbatini in Rome, but no definite proof of his having lived in the capital exists.
Transferred to the Franciscan monastery in Volterra he assumed the position of organist, of kappelmeister of the cathedral, of the music master of the seminary and at the same time that of organist of the church of The Holy Cross (S. Croce) in Florence. His friendships with the comedist, Ricciardi and Salvator Rosa, the painter, with whom he carried out a lengthy correspondence important for the re-construction of many details of Cesti’s life and the reception of his work, date from his time in Volterra.
In the years 1649-50 he was in Pisa as a tenor in the cathedral choir, then at Florence and Lucca where he met France...
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Antonio
Cesti
(Arezzo
1623 -
Firenze
1669)
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The cantatas where there is no note to the contrary, were written for voice and bass continuo.
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Vocal music:
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Opere
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Orontea (G. A. Cicognini), Teatro SS. Apostoli, Venezia, 1649 [Innsbruck, 1656, con modifiche]
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Alessandro vincitore di se stesso (F. Sbarra), Teatro SS. Apostoli, Venezia, 1651 [Lucca, 1654, con musiche anche di M. Bigongiari]
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Il Cesare amante (D. Varotari), Teatro SS. Apostoli, Venezia, 1651
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La Cleopatra (D. Varotari), Teatro del Serenissimo Arciduca, Innsbruck, 1654
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L’Argia (G. F. Apolloni), Innsbruck, 1655
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La Dori (G. F. Apolloni), Innsbruck, 1657
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Venere cacciatrice (G. F. Apolloni), Innsbruck, 1659
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La magnanimitą di Alessandro (F. Sbarra), Innsbruck, 1662
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Il Tito (N. Berengan), Teatro Grimani, Venezia, 1666
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Nettuno e Flora festeggianti (F. Sbarra), Vienna, 1666
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Le disgrazie d’amore (F. Sbarra), Vienna, 1667
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La Semirami (G. A. Moniglia), Vienna, 1667 [Modena, 1674, col titolo La schiava fortunata]
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Il pomo d’oro (F. Sbarra), Vienna, 1668
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Azioni e feste teatrali
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La Germania esultante (F. Sbarra), balletto equestre, Vienna, 1667.
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Cantate e serenate
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Alma sol vive
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Alpi nevose
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Amante gigante [3 vv.]
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Amanti, io vi disfido
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Aspettate
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Bella Clori
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Reference is made to the organisation of the works as is presented in The New Grove Dictionary of music and musicians, vol. iv, London, 1980, and in the Dizionario della musica e dei musicisti, Le Biografie”, vol. I, Torino, 1988. |
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