Giovanni Battista Volpe

Giovanni Battista Volpe (c.1620–1691)[1]:41 was an Venetian composer for operas during the Baroque period. He was also known as Rovetta and Rovettino.[2][3]:142

Volpe was an organist at St Mark's Basilica,[1]:41 and succeeded Giovanni Legrenzi as maestro di capella of the Cappella Marciana from 1690 until 1691.[4] His uncle was Giovanni Rovetta,[5]:139 a composer and former maestro di capella.[5]:135

He collaborated with the librettist Aurelio Aureli on several projects. Volpe composed the music for the opera La costanza di Rosmonda, which premiered in Venice's Teatro Santi Giovanni e Paolo in 1659.[3]:330 He then composed the music for the opera Gl'amori d'Apollo e di Leucotoe,[3]:39 which premiered in the same theatre in 1663.[3]:332 He composed at least one more opera for the theatre.[1]:41

Volpe was the preferred choice of composers in absentia when changes had to be made to their work.[3]:1667

Compositions

  • La costanza di Rosmonda, libretto by Aurelio Aureli (premiered 1659)
  • Gl'amori d'Apollo e di Leucotoe, libretto by Aurelio Aureli (premiered 1663)
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References

  1. Sadie, Julie Anne (1998). Companion to Baroque Music. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-816704-4. Retrieved 14 February 2020.
  2. Glixon, Jonathan E. (2017). Mirrors of Heaven Or Worldly Theaters?: Venetian Nunneries and Their Music. Oxford University Press. p. 244. ISBN 978-0-19-025912-9. Retrieved 14 February 2020.
  3. Glixon, Beth; Glixon, Jonathan (2007). Inventing the Business of Opera: The Impresario and His World in Seventeenth Century Venice. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-534297-0. Retrieved 14 February 2020.
  4. Alwes, Chester Lee (2015). A History of Western Choral Music. Oxford University Press. p. 186. ISBN 978-0-19-936193-9. Retrieved 14 February 2020.
  5. Fenlon, Iain; Carter, Tim; Fortune, Nigel (1995). Con Che Soavità: Studies in Italian Opera, Song, and Dance, 1580-1740. Oxford University Press. Retrieved 14 February 2020.
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