Gioacchino Cocchi (circa 1712 – 11 September 1796) was a Neapolitan composer, principally of opera.
Cocchi was probably born in Naples in about 1712, although his place of birth has also been given as Padova.[1] His first works were performed in Naples and in Rome; the most successful was La maestra, written in Naples in 1747.[2] It was performed at the Teatro Nuovo sopra Toledo of that city in the spring of 1747, and at the Teatro Formagliari of Bologna in October of the same year; on 11 March 1749 it was given at the King's Theatre, and in 1752 at the Teatro de' Fiorentini of Naples, with the title La scaltra governante. As La scaltra governatrice it was given at the Académie de Musique in Paris on 25 January 1753, and as Die Schulmeisterin was performed in 1954 at the Schlosstheater in Berlin.[1] The work established a solid international reputation for Cocchi.
From 1749 to 1757 Cocchi was in Venice, where he became maestro di cappella of the Ospedale degli Incurabili, standing in for Vincenzo Legrenzio Ciampi, who had been given permission to visit London for an extended period.[3] Cocchi also taught composition to Andrea Luchesi (1756/57).[citation needed] In 1757 he travelled to London, where he stayed until about 1772, when he returned to Venice.[2] He died there on 11 September 1796.[2]
Works
edit- Sinfonia for 2 Mandolins & Continuo, in 3 parts, 1) Allegro assai, 2) Largo, 3) Allegro. (Gimo 76)[4]
- Siface, re di Numidia (1748)
- Siroe (1749)
- Alessandro nell'Indie (1761)
- Adelaide (libretto by Antônio Salvi of 1722), set to music by Cocchi as well as by Pietro Torri, Nicola Antonio Porpora, Georg Friedrich Handel (as Lotario), Giuseppe Maria Orlandini and Antonio Vivaldi.
References
edit- ^ a b Raoul Meloncelli (1982). Cocchi, Gioacchino (in Italian). Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani, volume 26. Roma: Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana. Accessed April 2014.
- ^ a b c Piero Weiss (2001). Cocchi, Gioacchino. Grove Music Online. Oxford: Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.article.06014. (subscription required).
- ^ Dennis Libby, Saskia Willaert, James L. Jackman (2001). Ciampi, Vincenzo (Legrenzio). Grove Music Online. Oxford: Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.article.05750. (subscription required).
- ^ Sandberg, Eric. "The Gimo Music Collection". mutopiaproject.org. Retrieved 18 May 2019.
Gimo 76: G. Cocchi, Allegro assai - Largo - Allegro (note: there are two mandolin parts, but they are almost identical)
External links
edit
- The Mutopia Project has compositions by Gioacchino Cocchi
- Free scores by Gioacchino Cocchi at the International Music Score Library Project (IMSLP)
 | This article about an Italian composer is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. |