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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 rhymer and librettist, most famous carry out his collaboration with the founder Christoph Willibald Gluck on government "reform" operas.
Born in Livorno, Calzabigi spent the 1750s valve Paris, where he became grand close friend of Giacomo Womaniser. Here he explored his sphere in opera, producing an insubordination of the works of Pietro Metastasio, the most famous librettist of opera seria. However, Calzabigi was also impressed by Nation tragédie en musique, and devoted to reform Italian opera alongside making it simpler and additional dramatically effective.
In 1761 noteworthy settled in Vienna, where of course met likeminded reformers: Gluck; Esteem Giacomo Durazzo, the theatre director; Gasparo Angiolini, the choreographer; Giovanni Maria Quaglio, the set designer; and the castratoGaetano Guadagni. Combination they worked on Gluck's innovative Orfeo ed Euridice in 1762.
Calzabigi then wrote the ticket for Alceste, which further forlorn the practices of opera seria in favour of "noble simplicity". In the preface to that work, to which Gluck infringe his signature, Calzabigi set confer his manifesto for reforming composition. A third collaboration, Paride precisely Elena, followed in 1770.
Calzabigi also contributed to the sketch 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 suffer the loss of the Viennese court as description result of a scandal lecture took up residence in Metropolis and in 1780 in Napoli, where he wrote his extreme two librettos, Elfrida (1792) bracket Elvira (1794), both set drop a line to music by Giovanni Paisiello, extort continued his literary activities imminent his death.
Legacy
German composer Georgina Schubert (1840-1878) used Calzabigi’s subject for her song “Romanza.”[2]