Denkmäler der Tonkunst in Bayern (Neue Folge)
Band 21: Siroe (München 1767)
Jörg Riedlbaur (ed.)
Description
The “Dramma per musica” Siroe by Tommaso Trajetta (1739-1779), set to a libretto by Pietro Metastasio, was composed in 1767 as a commissioned work for the carnival season in Munich. The work was well received by the Munich audience; in contrast, scholars, especially Hugo Goldschmidt and Franz Michael Rudhardt, were rather critical of the work, as Trajetta had once again set an old Metastasio libretto, which other composers had already been working on for 40 years, after having achieved a new musical style in accordance with the Italian opera reform. Trajetta had to adapt to the conservative musical tastes of the Munich public and especially the Elector, but carefully extended the musical-dramaturgical boundaries. He frequently made use of the accompagnato recitative, and in the musical characterization of characters and situations he showed himself to be a precisely differentiating dramatist – within the traditional formal scheme of opera seria.
SON 251
EAN: 9790004802922
400 pages / 27 x 34 cm / 1869 g / softbound
Description
The “Dramma per musica” Siroe by Tommaso Trajetta (1739-1779), set to a libretto by Pietro Metastasio, was composed in 1767 as a commissioned work for the carnival season in Munich. The work was well received by the Munich audience; in contrast, scholars, especially Hugo Goldschmidt and Franz Michael Rudhardt, were rather critical of the work, as Trajetta had once again set an old Metastasio libretto, which other composers had already been working on for 40 years, after having achieved a new musical style in accordance with the Italian opera reform. Trajetta had to adapt to the conservative musical tastes of the Munich public and especially the Elector, but carefully extended the musical-dramaturgical boundaries. He frequently made use of the accompagnato recitative, and in the musical characterization of characters and situations he showed himself to be a precisely differentiating dramatist – within the traditional formal scheme of opera seria.
