Nicola Fiorenza (c.1700-1764)
- Concerto (en re maggiore) per il flauto obligato (c.1730)
Performers: Bettina Benziger (flute); Orchestre De Chambre De La Sarre;
Karl Ristenpart (1900-1967, conductor)
Further info: Musique A Naples
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Italian violinist and composer. His earliest dated composition is a
concerto for flute, two violins and continuo of 1726. For some years
this highly talented but rather tumultuous individual was teacher of
string instruments at the Neapolitan music conservatory S Maria di
Loreto. He was elected to this post by a curious procedure. Unable to
decide between five candidates for the post, the Loreto governors at
their meeting of 22 May 1743 finally put the five names in a box and
selected one at random; Fiorenza's name was drawn. He was dismissed on
the last day of 1762 after complaints extending over several years that
he was maltreating his students. Fiorenza was also a violinist in the
Neapolitan royal chapel, to which he was appointed some time before
1750. Records of salary payments to chapel members (I-Na) show that he
received pay increases on 23 April 1750, 22 May 1756, 24 April 1758
(when he was appointed head violinist of the chapel in succession to
Domenico de Matteis, who had just died), and 14 February 1761. His
surviving music is in manuscript at the Naples Conservatory S Pietro a
Majella. The bulk of it consists of 15 concertos for various
combinations of instruments and nine symphonies (many of them containing
important solos for string or wind instruments and coming close to
belonging to the concerto category). Nine of the concertos are dated and
were composed during 1726-28. Several other concertos and symphonies
may be assigned to the same approximate period on the evidence of their
style and structure. Though a minor figure in the history of
instrumental music, Fiorenza deserves more credit than he receives for
his part in the development of the concerto and the symphony in southern
Italy during the first half of the 18th century.
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