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Appunti sui libretti per musica di Gioacchino Pizzi
2017
In recent years historians of the literature, culture and sociality of the academies have shown a renewed interest in Gioacchino Pizzi (Nivildo Amarinzio), who was the Custode of Arcadia from 1772 to 1790. On the other hand, there have been no specific studies of his relations with the world of music. The first part of the article offers a first inventory of Nivildo’s printed libretti, belonging to the genres of encomiastic cantata, sacred composition and dramma per musica. The second part illustrates the ideas on Italian and French theatre expounded by Pizzi in his "Ragionamento sulla tragica e comica poesia" (1772). It also reconstructs his relationship with Pietro Metastasio, and explore…
Anfione e Nivildo. Nota sui rapporti di Niccolò Jommelli con l'arcade Gioacchino Pizzi
2017
The Roman poet Gioacchino Pizzi (1716-1790) was a leading figure of the Accademia dell’Arcadia in the second half of the Eighteenth Century. His relationship with the composer Niccolò Jommelli (1714-1774) is investigated for the first time. Their collaboration started in 1751 in the occasion of the creation of a “componimento drammatico” for the birthday of King Joseph I of Portugal. They worked together again in 1757, when they wrote “Il Creso”, a three-acts opera performed at the Teatro di Torre Argentina. The friendship between the man of letters and the musician is clearly described in Pizzi’s undated ode “Per la venuta in Roma del celebre maestro di cappella il signor Niccolò Jommelly”…