Marianne Martines (1744-1812)
- Missa solemnis in D-Dur (1765)
Performers: Katharina Spiеlmann (soprano); Nina Amοn (mezzosoprano); Felix Riеnth (tenor); Michael Krеis (bass);
Chorgemeinschaft Kirchdοrf; Peter Lοοsli (conductor)
Painting: Anoniem - Angel playing music
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Austrian composer, singer and keyboardist. She was the daughter of a
Neapolitan who had come to Vienna as ‘gentiluomo’ to the papal nuncio.
She spent her childhood under the educational guidance of Pietro
Metastasio, a friend of the family who lived in the same house; she was
taught singing, the piano and composition by Nicola Porpora and Jospeh
Haydn, who were also living there, by Giuseppe Bonno and possibly by
J.A. Hasse. As a child she had attracted attention at court with her
beautiful voice and her keyboard playing, and in 1761 a mass by her was
performed in the court church. She acknowledged in 1773, when she became
an honorary member of the Bologna Accademia Filarmonica, that as a
composer she took as her principal models Hasse, Jommelli and Galuppi.
Not only did she possess a thorough understanding of imitation and
fugue, but she also knew how to set words in the Baroque manner. Her
predilection for coloratura passages, leaps over wide intervals and
trills indicate that she herself must have been an excellent singer. In
1772 Burney praised her singing for all the typical virtues of the
Italian school as well as for ‘touching expression’. Burney’s remark
that her vocal works were ‘neither common, nor unnaturally new’ applies
to her instrumental works as well. A typical composer of the early
Classical period in Vienna, she wrote in the Italian style. Her works
include four Masses, six motets, three litanies, numerous Psalms and
other sacred works, two oratorios, three keyboard sonatas, a keyboard
concerto, and a symphony, as well as songs.
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