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Negri, Francesco(b Verona, ?c1609; d after 1635). Italian composer. For a time he was maestro di cappella of S Bernardino, Verona. In 1635 he was a canon of S Pietro, Guastalla. As a composer he is known only by Arie musicali … a una e doi voci, con alcune cantate in stille recitativo, op.1 (Venice, 1635); he stated that some of the texts were by Prince Vincenzo Gonzaga, the dedicatee. The three ‘cantatas’ are in fact long recitatives, the first a lament for a pet, the second a scena for an enraged lover, the third a setting of a madrigal text. The music is unremarkable, as is that of the seven short strophic arias. The most interesting music occurs in two of the other three pieces in the book. One is a setting of two ottavas, the music of the first of which is by another, anonymous composer and is in a simple, unadorned style, quite different from Negri’s own music for the second ottava, which is extravagantly ornamented. The other more interesting piece is the only duet in the volume, Ginevra, ah nò, which is not only founded on the same chaconne bass as Monteverdi’s duet Zefiro torna (first published in 1632) but also looks as if it was influenced by that great work; Negri may have deliberately chosen a sonnet as his text the more closely to emulate Monteverdi. It says something for Negri that his piece is not completely outclassed in comparison. BIBLIOGRAPHYE. Schmitz: ‘Zur Geschichte des italienischen Kammerduetts im 17. Jahrhundert’, JbMP 1916, 43–60, esp. 52 J. Racek: Stilprobleme der italienischen Monodie (Prague, 1965) J. Whenham: Duet and Dialogue in the Age of Monteverdi (Ann Arbor, 1982) NIGEL FORTUNE Negri, Gino(b Perledo, nr Como, 25 May 1919; d Montevecchia, nr Como, 19 July 1991). Italian composer and critic. He studied at the Milan Conservatory, where his teachers included Renzo Bossi. He taught at the Scuola del Piccolo Teatro in Milan from 1954 to 1959 and later at the Nuova Accademia, Milan. He was music critic of Panorama until 1984 and also worked for the RAI. In 1967 he was awarded the Premio Italia for his radio opera Giovanni Sebastiano. Negri composed almost exclusively for the theatre, particularly works for small forces, which he found most congenial. The first, Divertimenti di Palazzeschi (composed 1943), for soprano, tenor and eight instruments, from Palazzeschi’s Visita alla contessa and Lasciatemi divertire, exemplifies his surreal and abrasive irony. The characteristic form of Negri’s ‘chamber theatre’ was developed in a series of one-act operas. In Vieni qui, Carla (1956) Negri used an idiom based on 12-note technique to treat a morally dubious episode from Alberto Moravia’s Gli indifferenti. Massimo and Il tè delle tre (both 1958) tend towards an often bitter social satire and a striking juxtaposition of educated and working-class speech suggestive of Kurt Weill’s musical theatre. Negri’s fairly limited orchestral, vocal and chamber output dates mostly from the period when he first came to attention immediately after World War II. In particular, his Antologia di Spoon River for solo voices, chorus and orchestra (1946), on texts by Lee Masters, had a certain resonance at the time. An interest in poetry was a constant feature of Negri’s work and reappeared in Sangue tuo nelle mie vene (1977), on texts by Montale. His non-stage works display an eclectic, independent style, though less original than that of his chamber dramatic pieces.
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WRITINGSwith M. Visconti: Roses (Milan, 1969) Guida alla musica vivente (Milan, 1974) Casa sonora (Pordenone, 1978) with M. Martini: Il suono del delitto (Milan, 1978) La scala si è rotta (Milan, 1984) L’opera italiana: storia, costume, repertorio (Milan, 1985) BIBLIOGRAPHYDEUMM (R. Cognazzo) M. Mila: ‘A Scandalous Musician’, Score, no.15 (1956), 31–8 M. Mila: ‘Le opere impossibili di Gino Negri’, Cronache musicali 1955–1959 (Turin, 1959), 189–96 F. D’Amico: I casi della musica (Milan, 1962), 132–4, 267–9, 307–8 R. Zanetti: La musica italiana nel Novecento (Busto Arsizio, 1985), 1314–15 RAFFAELE POZZI Yüklə 10,2 Mb. Dostları ilə paylaş:
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