1820 lithograph of Giuseppe Scarlatti by Heinrich E. Winter

Giuseppe Scarlatti (1718 or 18 June 1723, Naples – 17 August 1777, Vienna) was a composer of opere serie and opere buffe. He worked in Rome from 1739 to 1741, and from 1752 to 1754 in Florence, Pisa, Lucca and Turin. From 1752 to 1754, and again from 1756 to 1759, he worked in Venice and for short periods in Milan and Barcelona. In 1760 he moved to Vienna, where he enjoyed the friendship of Christoph Willibald Gluck. "The third most important musician of his clan",[1] it is still uncertain whether he was born on 18 June 1723 as the nephew of Alessandro or in 1718 as nephew of Domenico. Giuseppe Scarlatti was married to the Viennese singer Barbara Stabili who died about 1753. By 1767 he had married Antonia Lefebvre, who that year bore him a son; she died three years later. Scarlatti died intestate in 1777 in Vienna.[2]

Works

Operas

TitleGenreSub­divisionsLibrettoPremière datePlace, theatre
Meropedramma per musica3 actsApostolo Zeno23 January 1740Rome, Teatro Capranica
Dariodramma per musica3 actsG. Baldanzacarnival 1741Rome, Teatro Argentina
Arminio in Germaniadramma per musica3 actsC. Pasquini24 June 1741Florence, Teatro della Pergola
Siroedramma per musica3 actsMetastasioJune 1742Florence, Teatro della Pergola
Pompeo in Armeniadramma per musica3 actsBartolomeo Vitturicarnival 1744Pisa, Pubblico
Eziodramma per musica3 actsMetastasioautumn 1744Lucca, Civico
Olimpiadedramma per musica3 actsMetastasioautumn 1745Lucca, Pubblico
Il giocatorecommedia per musica2 acts carnival 1747Florence, Cocomero
Artasersedramma per musica3 actsMetastasio26 August 1747Lucca
Partenopedramma per musica3 actsSilvio Stampigliacarnival 1749Turin, Regio
Semiramide riconosciutadramma per musica3 actsMetastasiocarnival 1751Livorno, San Sebastiano
Adriano in Siriadramma per musica3 actsMetastasiocarnival 1752Venice, San Cassiano
Demetriodramma per musica3 actsMetastasio11 June 1752Padua, Nuovo
I portentosi effetti della Madre Naturadramma giocoso per musica3 actsCarlo Goldoni11 November 1752Venice, San Samuele
L'impostoreopera buffa  1752Barcelona, Santa Cruz
Alessandro nell'Indiedramma per musica3 actsMetastasio12 May 1753Reggio Emilia, Pubblico
De gustibus non est disputandumdramma giocoso per musica3 actsCarlo Goldonicarnival 1754Venice, San Cassiano
Caio Mariodramma per musica3 actsGaetano Roccaforte20 January 1755Naples, Teatro di San Carlo
Antigonadramma per musica3 actsGaetano Roccafortecarnival 1756Milan, Ducale
L'isola disabitata (La Cinese smarrita)dramma giocoso per musica3 actsCarlo Goldoniautumn 1757Venice, San Samuele
La serva scaltradramma giocoso per musica3 acts autumn 1759Venice, Teatro San Moisè
La clemenza di Titodramma per musica3 actsMetastasiocarnival 1760Venice, San Benedetto
L'Issipiledramma per musica3 actsMetastasioautumn 1760Vienna, Burgtheater
Pelopida (second act)dramma per musica3 actsGaetano Roccafortecarnival 1763Turin, Regio
Bajazetdramma per musica3 actsAgostino Piovenecarnival 1765Verona, Accademia Filharmonica
Gli stravaganti (La moglie padrona)commedia per musica2 actsAlcindo Isaurense11 February 1765Vienna, Burgtheater
Armidafesta teatrale Marco Coltellinicirca 1766Vienna, Burgtheater
Dove è amore è gelosiaintermezzo giocoso Marco Coltellini24 July 1768Český Krumlov, Český Krumlov Castle
L'amor gelosoazione teatrale comica  5 July 1770Vienna, Schönbrunn Palace
Amiti e Ontario, o I selvaggidramma per musica Ranieri de' Calzabigi1772Vienna, Burgtheater

Dubious attributions

  • La madamigella (libretto by Antonio Palomba, 1755, Naples)
  • Il mercato di Malmantide (dramma giocoso per musica, libretto by Carlo Goldoni, 1758, Venice)

Other works

  • La Santissima Vergine annunziata (oratorio, 1739, Rome)
  • Componimento per musica (serenata, 1739, Rome)
  • L'amor della patria (serenata, libretto by Carlo Goldoni, 1752, Venice)
  • Les aventures de Serail (ballet, 1762, Vienna)
  • Imeneo, sognando talora (cantata for tenor and basso continuo)
  • I lamenti d'Orfeo (cantata for 2 voices and orchestra)
  • Amor prigioniero (cantata for 2 sopranos and instruments)
  • Various arias
  • Sonata for clavicembalo

Selected recordings

  • Giuseppe Scarlatti: I portentosi effetti della Madre Natura Ensemble 1700 1CD DHM 2023

References

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