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Italian composer
Francesco Manelli
(Mannelli) (
c.
1595 ? 1667) was a Roman
Baroque
composer
, particularly of
opera
, and a
theorbo
player. He is most well known for his collaboration with fellow Roman composer
Benedetto Ferrari
in bringing commercial opera to
Venice
. The first two works, in 1637 and 1638, to be put on commercially in the
Teatro San Cassiano
were both by Manelli ? his
L'Andromeda
and
La Maga Fulminata
.
Francesco Manelli was for many years confused with the
Franciscan
friar
Giovanni Battista Fasolo
, because of the resemblances between Manelli's cantata
Luciata
(published in
Musiche varie,
op. 4 Venice, 1636), and Fasolo's dialogue
Il carro di Madama Lucia
(Rome, 1628), and the shared text of the first piece in both collections. In a comparison of the two cantatas Fasolo's version
[1]
is "languid and melancholy", while Manelli's version
[2]
is "spirited and biting".
[3]
A mid-14th-century Florentine scholar of the same name, also called
dei Pontigiano
, was a close friend of
Giovanni Boccaccio
.
[4]
Works
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Operas, music for all of which is lost.
Cantatas
- Musiche varie
Op. 4 (1636)
Recordings
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References
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Recorded on Il Fasolo, dir. Dumestre Alpha 2004
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Recorded on Provenzale et al. Dialoghe.
Cappella della Pieta de' Turchini
dir. Florio. Symphonia 1995
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Piero Mioli
A voce sola: studi sulla cantata italiana del XVII secolo
, Volume 1 p.332 1988
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Dizionario biografico universale
, Volume 3, by Felice Scifoni, David Passigli, publisher, Florence (1844); page 890.
