Johannes Colizzi (c.1742-1808)
- Concerto in B flat major
Performers: Gert Oost (organ)
Painting: Jan ten Compe (1713-1761) - The Korte Vijverberg in The Hague, viewed from the Plaats (1747)
Further info: Dutch Royal Organs
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Composer and keyboard player, possibly of Italian origin. He lived at
Leiden from at least 1766, when a song anthology to which he contributed
appeared. On 15 June 1766 he obtained the appointment as an Italian
language teacher at Leiden University. The Leiden art society
Kunstgenootschap 'Kunst Wordt Door Arbeid Verkreegen' published his
bundle with songs and dances on the occasion of the wedding of
prince-stadtholder William V of Orange and princess Wilhelmina of
Prussia. His orchestral works were written in the Leiden years. Among
these works are the 'Ouverture Slavonne' and the 'Quattro Concerti
Barbari'. He also married there on 11 May 1772 as the music teacher Jan
Collizzi with Cornelia Maria van Dinter, one of the daughters of the
Leiden physician Dr. Hermanus van Dinter. In 1774 his 'Dissertatio
Philosophica De Sono' was published based on a manuscript that he had
completed six years earlier. The book was followed by several other
music theory works of his hand. In April and May 1777 Colizzi moved
because of his appointment as harpsichordist at the stadtholderly Music
Chapel in The Hague and music teacher of, among others, the future Dutch
King William I and his mother princess Wilhelmina. In the years
1762-1787 hymns of the Amsterdam reverend Rutger Schutte (1708-1784)
were published. Colizzi was asked to write melodies in Italian style for
the fourth volume. After the Music Chapel was disbanded, because of the
flight of the prince-stadtholder in 1795, Colizzi remained in The
Hague. From 1797 dates the composition for singing voice with keyboard
accompaniment on the occasion of the silver wedding anniversary of the
Danish envoy, baron Herman Schubart (1756-1832) and his wife, celebrated
in The Hague. Colizzi died in The Hague on 15 August 1808. He was
buried in the cemetery Eik en Duinen (now Oud Eik en Duinen). An auction
catalog of the estate was published shortly after his death by The
Hague bookseller Scheurleer. The estate included dozens of compositions
and various etched cards.
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