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Johann(es) Simon Mayr, also known in Italian as Giovanni Simone Mayr or Simone Mayr, was a German composer. His music reflects the transition from the Classical to the Romantic musical era. In 1805 he founded the Bergamo Conservatory. He was an early inspiration to Rossini and taught and advocated for Donizetti.
Robert Merwald is a German baritone active in opera, oratorio, and lied, primarily in Germany and Austria.
Telemaco nell'isola di Calipso is dramma per musica opera by Mayr to a libretto by Antonio Simone Sograffi, composed for the Venice Carnival, 1797. The cast featured the castrato Girolamo Crescentini.
Demetrio, Re di Siria is an 1823 Italian language opera by Mayr, staged in Turin. It was Mayr's last opera, followed only by the Oratorio Gioas in 1824. The libretto is a revision of Metastasio's 1732 libretto originally set by Hasse.
Gioas re di Giuda is an Italian-language oratorio libretto by Pietro Metastasio written in 1735 for imperial court composer Georg Reutter the younger and later set by at least 25 composers. The plot is based on the life of King Joash of Judah.
Tobiae matrimonium, actio sacra pro filiabus chori S. Lazari is a 1794 oratorio by Simon Mayr to a Latin libretto by Giuseppe Maria Foppa. It was the third of Mayr's works written for the Ospedale dei Mendicanti. No exact date or circumstances for the original performance are known.
David in spelunca Engaddi is a 1795 oratorio by Simon Mayr. The librettist is unknown, but is possibly Giuseppe Maria Foppa who supplied the Latin texts for Iacob a Labano fugiens (1791), Sisara (1793), and Tobiae matrimonium (1794).
Iacob a Labano fugiens is a 1791 oratorio by Simon Mayr to a libretto by Giuseppe Maria Foppa for the Conservatorio dei Mendicanti, Venice.
Sisara is a 1793 Latin oratorio by Simon Mayr to a libretto by Giuseppe Foppa who also supplied the Latin texts for Iacob a Labano fugiens (1791) and Tobiae matrimonium (1794).
La passione di Gesù Cristo, is a 1794 Italian-language oratorio for soloists, choir and orchestra by Simon Mayr, to an adapted version of the famous libretto La passione di Gesù Cristo by Metastasio. Unlike Mayr's four Latin-language oratorios to librettos by Giuseppe Foppa for the Conservatorio dei Mendicanti, La passione was written for a church, and not limited to girls voices.
Samuele is an 1821 Italian-language oratorio by Simon Mayr to a libretto by Bartolomeo Merelli. It was performed on 2 June 1821 in Bergamo's Congregazione della Carità by pupils of the Lezioni caritatevoli to welcome the arrival of the new bishop Pietro Mola.
Il sagrifizio di Jefte is a 1795 oratorio by Simon Mayr to a libretto by Giuseppe Foppa performed in Forlì.
Atalia is an Italian-language oratorio by Simon Mayr to a libretto by Felice Romani, premiered in Naples, 1822.
Arianna in Nasso is an 1815 "azione drammatica", or scenic cantata in one act by Simon Mayr to a libretto by Giovanni Schmidt. It was premiered at the Teatro San Carlo, Naples, on 19 February 1815 with the role of Ariadne sung by Isabella Colbran who had requested Mayr to compose the piece for her to showcase her skills.
I cherusci is a dramma per musica in 2 acts by Simon Mayr to a libretto by Gaetano Rossi. It was first performed at the Teatro Argentina, Rome, for Carnival 1808. The plot is at the time of the battles between the Germanic tribes the Marcomanni and Cherusci.
Elena also known as Elena e Costantino is an 1814 opera semiseria by Johann Simon Mayr to a libretto by Leone Tottola. The opera premiered in Naples in 1814 and was later adjusted for La Scala in 1816 where Meyerbeer may have heard it using the same plot in Emma di Resburgo. Goethe and Zelter's correspondence makes mention of the sextet in Act 2, as reported by Stendhal.
Le due duchesse or La caccia dei lupi is a semiseria opera in two acts by Johann Simon Mayr to a libretto by Felice Romani which was premiered 7 November 1814 at La Scala in Milan and revived in 1819 at the Teatro San Carlo, Naples. Romani used his libretto again with a few changes for a new setting by Filippo Celli (1782–1856) for Florence on 8 September 1824.
Le due duchesse, ossia La caccia dei lupi is an 1814 opera in 2 acts, a dramma semiserio per musica, by Johann Simon Mayr to a libretto by Felice Romani after Edgar ou La chasse aux loups by Louis-Charles Caigniez premiered 7 November 1814 Milan, Teatro alla Scala. The plot is based on a French melodrama set in Saxon England during the reign of King Edgar the Peaceful.
Alfredo il grande is an 1819 opera, melodramma seria in 2 acts, by Johann Simon Mayr to a libretto by Bartolomeo Merelli after Eraldo ed Emma by Gaetano Rossi. It premiered 26 December 1819 at Bergamo, Teatro della Società.
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- ↑ Franz Hauk, Iris Winkler Johann Simon Mayr und Wien 2005 "una serenata e l'oratorio Gioas composti per la Corte imperiale di Vienna rispettivamente nel 1825 e nel 1826."
- ↑ Stendhal Memoirs of Rossini "...the “Misteri Eleusini,” which made as much noise in that day, as “Il Don Giovanni” has in our own; but the latter opera was not then known in Italy, and was considered as of too difficult execution. “I Misteri Eleusini,” passed for the most brilliant and powerful work of that period."
- ↑ booklet essay by Anja Morgenstern in Naxos recording
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