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An Italian in Paris: Giovanni Bentivoglio (1611–1694) and a neglected source for seventeenth-century Italian cantata poetry
| Author | Michael Klaper |
| Series | Recercare - Rivista per lo studio e la pratica della musica antica - Journal for the study and practice of early music |
| Nr. | XXXI/1-2 2019 |
| Size | 17×24, pp. 230 |
| Year | 2020 |
| ISBN | 9788855430319 |
This article is the first in-depth discussion of the manuscript 19277 of the Biblioteca Nacional of Madrid (Ma) as one of the most substantial sources for Italian cantata texts of the seventeenth century. It is shown that Ma is the unique testimony for the collected poetry of one single author, the abate Giovanni Bentivoglio, who — though being educated in Rome — spent most of his life in France. The article provides an overview of the contents of Ma, two thirds of which can be shown to be poesia per musica, and sheds light on its general importance for the history of the seventeenth-century Italian cantata. Furthermore, on the basis of three examples (cantatas set to music by Marco Marazzoli, occasional cantatas, and Teobaldo di Gatti’s Airs italiens) it is demonstrated how Bentivoglio’s poetry can contribute to the historiography of this genre in France.
Michael Klaper is professor of Musicology at the University of Jena. He received his doctorate in 2002 from the University of Erlangen, and completed his Habilitation in 2008 at the same university, with a study on the Italian opera in France during the seventeenth century. His main research interests are the music history of pre-modern Europe, the musical theatre in the Baroque era, and the Italian cantata. His articles have published in journals such as Acta Musicologica, Archiv für Musikwissenschaft, Musica e storia, Journal of Seventeenth-Century Music, and Philomusica online. He also edited the volume Luther im Kontext. Reformbestrebungen und Musik in der ersten Hälfte des 16. Jahrhunderts (2016). Currently he is preparing, together with Nastasia Sophie Tietze, an edition of all the surviving cantatas with text by Francesco Buti (1606–1682), as well as a monograph on Giovanni Bentivoglio and Italian musical culture in France during the second half of the seventeenth century.michael.klaper@uni-jena.de