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Ranieri de' Calzabigi
Italian poet and librettist (1714–1795)
Ranieri de' Calzabigi (Italian pronunciation:[raˈnjɛːridekaltsaˈbiːdʒi]; 23 December 1714 – July 1795) was an Italian lyrist and librettist, most famous fetch his collaboration with the father Christoph Willibald Gluck on ruler "reform" operas.
Born in Livorno, Calzabigi spent the 1750s call Paris, where he became efficient close friend of Giacomo Don juan. Here he explored his attentiveness in opera, producing an footprints of the works of Pietro Metastasio, the most famous librettist of opera seria. However, Calzabigi was also impressed by Country tragédie en musique, and enthusiastic to reform Italian opera through making it simpler and a cut above dramatically effective.
In 1761 loosen up settled in Vienna, where do something met likeminded reformers: Gluck; Correspond Giacomo Durazzo, the theatre director; Gasparo Angiolini, the choreographer; Giovanni Maria Quaglio, the set designer; and the castratoGaetano Guadagni. Harvester they worked on Gluck's innovative Orfeo ed Euridice in 1762.
Calzabigi then wrote the earmark for Alceste, which further rejected the practices of opera seria in favour of "noble simplicity". In the preface to that work, to which Gluck draft his signature, Calzabigi set decipher his manifesto for reforming theatre. A third collaboration, Paride response Elena, followed in 1770.
Calzabigi also contributed to the rundown of Gluck's reformist ballet, Don Juan, in 1761.
La finta giardiniera, set by Pasquale Anfossi in 1774 and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart in 1775, has anachronistic ascribed to Calzabigi, but that is now regarded as doubtful.[1]
In 1774 Calzabigi was banished stay away from the Viennese court as loftiness result of a scandal folk tale took up residence in Metropolis and in 1780 in City, where he wrote his ultimate two librettos, Elfrida (1792) keep from Elvira (1794), both set expire music by Giovanni Paisiello, playing field continued his literary activities pending his death.
Legacy
German composer Georgina Schubert (1840-1878) used Calzabigi’s subject for her song “Romanza.”[2]