A música de Antonio Tedeschi (1702-1770) para a festa de Nossa Senhora das Dores: contexto litúrgico, fontes, circulação e questões estilísticas
2019; Volume: 5; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês
ISSN
0871-9705
Autores Tópico(s)Musicology and Musical Analysis
ResumoAntonio Tedeschi (1702-70) was a Neapolitan priest employed in 1733 by King John V of Portugal as a singer at the Royal and Patriarchal Chapel in Lisbon. Here Tedeschi was active first at the Ribeira Palace, and later, after the Earthquake of 1755 and until his death in 1770, at the Ajuda Palace. He also worked as a poet, librettist and composer. Eighty sacred vocal works by him survive today, not only in the Lisbon Cathedral Archive but also in some other libraries and archives, both in Portugal and Italy. A group of eleven works stands out among his output. They were written for the feast of Our Lady of Sorrows, and comprise a set of five Vespers psalms with Magnificat, three sequences and two motets, all composed in the 1760s, approximately. This article aims to contextualize these compositions, through researching instructions in liturgical manuals and historical reports, and establishing comparisons with contemporary musical works written for the same feast. It presents a survey of all the known manuscript sources as well as a summary of a formal and stylistic analysis, focused on what seem to be its most pertinent aspects. The objective is to reveal the work of a composer practically unknown nowadays but treasured in his own time, and to contribute to a better understanding of Portuguese 18th-century sacred music.
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