Antonio Caldara (c.1670-1736)
- Te Deum laudamus (C-Dur) à 2. chori
Performers: lаrynx ensemble; Les Passions de l'Âmе; Mеrеt Lüthi (conductor)
Painting: Johann Adam Delsenbach (1687-1765) - Wien, Ansicht der Innenstadt vor dem Rotenturmtor (c.1750)
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Italian composer. He became a chorister at St Mark's in Venice, where he
learned several instruments, probably under the instruction of Giovanni
Legrenzi. In 1699 he relocated to Mantua, where he became maestro di
cappella to the inept Charles IV, Duke of Mantua, a pensionary of France
with a French wife, who took the French side in the War of the Spanish
Succession. Caldara removed from Mantua in 1707, after the French were
expelled from Italy, then moved on to Barcelona as chamber composer to
Charles III, the pretender to the Spanish throne (following the death of
Charles II of Spain in 1700 without any direct heir) and who kept a
royal court at Barcelona. There, he wrote some operas that are the first
Italian operas performed in Spain. He moved on to Rome, becoming
maestro di cappella to Francesco Maria Marescotti Ruspoli, 1st Prince of
Cerveteri. While there he wrote in 1710 La costanza in amor vince
l'inganno (Faithfulness in Love Defeats Treachery) for the public
theatre at Macerata. With the unexpected death of Emperor Joseph I from
smallpox at the age of 32 in April 1711, Caldara deemed it prudent to
renew his connections with Charles III – soon to become Holy Roman
Emperor Charles VI – as he travelled from Spain to Vienna via northern
Italy. Caldara visited Vienna in 1712, but found Marc'Antonio Ziani and
Johann Joseph Fux firmly ensconced in the two highest musical posts. He
stopped at the Salzburg court on his return journey to Rome, where he
was well received (and to which he subsequently sent one new opera
annually from 1716 to 1727). In 1716, following the death the previous
year of Ziani and the promotion of Fux to Hofkapellmeister, Caldara was
appointed Vize-Kapellmeister to the Imperial Court in Vienna, and there
he remained until his death. Caldara composed more than 70 operas, more
than 30 oratorios, and other works including motets and sonatas. Several
of his compositions have libretti by Pietro Metastasio, the court poet
at Vienna from 1729.
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