Mattei, Stanislao. (1750 - 1825). Autograph Letter regarding Martini. A rare and important autograph letter from the influential Italian teacher and composer, a student and close friend of Martini who founded the Liceo Filarmonico of Bologna where he was professor of counterpoint and composition . His most famous students included, among others, Donizetti, Rossini, and Morlacchi and his treatise "Pratica d'accompagnamento sopra bassi numerati," was widely used throughout the 19th century.
Autograph letter. 1 page. Dated 3 June, 1812. To Giovanni Agostino Perotti, director of the Capella di San Marco [integral address leaf, verso]. 25 x 19 cm. Small losses at margins, affecting one word of text at right. Scattered foxing, otherwise fine.
The addressee, Giovanni Agostino Perotti (1769 - 1855), was Mattei's student in Bologna and was himself an important Italian composer, teacher and writer on music, who "as the maestro di cappella of S Marco...promoted several reforms concerning the re-ordering and expansion of the chapel’s music archive, the use of women’s voices in performances of old sacred music, the singing school for young choristers and the re-creation of the Società di S Cecilia (1832)." (Grove Online)
The letter concerns Mattei's former teacher, Padre Giovanni Battista Martini (1706 - 1784), one of the central figures in 18th century music. In a recently published critical volume by a certain Angeloni, Martini has been unfairly slandered over his ommission of Guido Arentino from his "Storia della Musica." Mattei furiously defends his teacher against the "idiot," who does not see the impossibility of including Aretino in a history which does not even touch the first century of Church music, not to mention the 11th century in which Aretino was active. Mattei concludes that Angeloni is "incongruente, maligno...e senza logica" [incongruent, mean-spirited, and without logic].
In Italian, in part: "Stampato in Parigi è uscito d'un certo Angeloni italiano in lode di Guido Aretino. Verso la metà del libro inveisce contro il P.m. Martini chiamandolo incongruente, privo d'amor patrio, e con tutto il dispreggio; ... perchè? per non aver parlato a lungo di Guido Aretino. oh che minchione. Come doveva parlare di Guido (senza incidenza) quando che Guido viveva ne Secolo undecimo, ed il P. Martini n'è arrivato nemmeno al primo secolo della Chiesa. Ne avrebbe parlot a lungo (come trovo nei suoi scritti) se avesse potuto presguire la stampa della sua Storia. Vorrei che V.S. giacchè vuole dare alle stampe l'elogio del P. Martini, prendesse con calore le sue diffese..."
The subject of the letter is Luigi Angeloni (1759 - 1842), author of "Sopra la vita ed il sapere di Guido d'Arezzo restauratore della scienza e dell'arte musica" in 1811, a work which Carlo Schmidl describes as a "dissertazione non troppo esatta" [dissertation not so exact].
Autograph letter. 1 page. Dated 3 June, 1812. To Giovanni Agostino Perotti, director of the Capella di San Marco [integral address leaf, verso]. 25 x 19 cm. Small losses at margins, affecting one word of text at right. Scattered foxing, otherwise fine.
The addressee, Giovanni Agostino Perotti (1769 - 1855), was Mattei's student in Bologna and was himself an important Italian composer, teacher and writer on music, who "as the maestro di cappella of S Marco...promoted several reforms concerning the re-ordering and expansion of the chapel’s music archive, the use of women’s voices in performances of old sacred music, the singing school for young choristers and the re-creation of the Società di S Cecilia (1832)." (Grove Online)
The letter concerns Mattei's former teacher, Padre Giovanni Battista Martini (1706 - 1784), one of the central figures in 18th century music. In a recently published critical volume by a certain Angeloni, Martini has been unfairly slandered over his ommission of Guido Arentino from his "Storia della Musica." Mattei furiously defends his teacher against the "idiot," who does not see the impossibility of including Aretino in a history which does not even touch the first century of Church music, not to mention the 11th century in which Aretino was active. Mattei concludes that Angeloni is "incongruente, maligno...e senza logica" [incongruent, mean-spirited, and without logic].
In Italian, in part: "Stampato in Parigi è uscito d'un certo Angeloni italiano in lode di Guido Aretino. Verso la metà del libro inveisce contro il P.m. Martini chiamandolo incongruente, privo d'amor patrio, e con tutto il dispreggio; ... perchè? per non aver parlato a lungo di Guido Aretino. oh che minchione. Come doveva parlare di Guido (senza incidenza) quando che Guido viveva ne Secolo undecimo, ed il P. Martini n'è arrivato nemmeno al primo secolo della Chiesa. Ne avrebbe parlot a lungo (come trovo nei suoi scritti) se avesse potuto presguire la stampa della sua Storia. Vorrei che V.S. giacchè vuole dare alle stampe l'elogio del P. Martini, prendesse con calore le sue diffese..."
The subject of the letter is Luigi Angeloni (1759 - 1842), author of "Sopra la vita ed il sapere di Guido d'Arezzo restauratore della scienza e dell'arte musica" in 1811, a work which Carlo Schmidl describes as a "dissertazione non troppo esatta" [dissertation not so exact].
Mattei, Stanislao. (1750 - 1825). Autograph Letter regarding Martini. A rare and important autograph letter from the influential Italian teacher and composer, a student and close friend of Martini who founded the Liceo Filarmonico of Bologna where he was professor of counterpoint and composition . His most famous students included, among others, Donizetti, Rossini, and Morlacchi and his treatise "Pratica d'accompagnamento sopra bassi numerati," was widely used throughout the 19th century.
Autograph letter. 1 page. Dated 3 June, 1812. To Giovanni Agostino Perotti, director of the Capella di San Marco [integral address leaf, verso]. 25 x 19 cm. Small losses at margins, affecting one word of text at right. Scattered foxing, otherwise fine.
The addressee, Giovanni Agostino Perotti (1769 - 1855), was Mattei's student in Bologna and was himself an important Italian composer, teacher and writer on music, who "as the maestro di cappella of S Marco...promoted several reforms concerning the re-ordering and expansion of the chapel’s music archive, the use of women’s voices in performances of old sacred music, the singing school for young choristers and the re-creation of the Società di S Cecilia (1832)." (Grove Online)
The letter concerns Mattei's former teacher, Padre Giovanni Battista Martini (1706 - 1784), one of the central figures in 18th century music. In a recently published critical volume by a certain Angeloni, Martini has been unfairly slandered over his ommission of Guido Arentino from his "Storia della Musica." Mattei furiously defends his teacher against the "idiot," who does not see the impossibility of including Aretino in a history which does not even touch the first century of Church music, not to mention the 11th century in which Aretino was active. Mattei concludes that Angeloni is "incongruente, maligno...e senza logica" [incongruent, mean-spirited, and without logic].
In Italian, in part: "Stampato in Parigi è uscito d'un certo Angeloni italiano in lode di Guido Aretino. Verso la metà del libro inveisce contro il P.m. Martini chiamandolo incongruente, privo d'amor patrio, e con tutto il dispreggio; ... perchè? per non aver parlato a lungo di Guido Aretino. oh che minchione. Come doveva parlare di Guido (senza incidenza) quando che Guido viveva ne Secolo undecimo, ed il P. Martini n'è arrivato nemmeno al primo secolo della Chiesa. Ne avrebbe parlot a lungo (come trovo nei suoi scritti) se avesse potuto presguire la stampa della sua Storia. Vorrei che V.S. giacchè vuole dare alle stampe l'elogio del P. Martini, prendesse con calore le sue diffese..."
The subject of the letter is Luigi Angeloni (1759 - 1842), author of "Sopra la vita ed il sapere di Guido d'Arezzo restauratore della scienza e dell'arte musica" in 1811, a work which Carlo Schmidl describes as a "dissertazione non troppo esatta" [dissertation not so exact].
Autograph letter. 1 page. Dated 3 June, 1812. To Giovanni Agostino Perotti, director of the Capella di San Marco [integral address leaf, verso]. 25 x 19 cm. Small losses at margins, affecting one word of text at right. Scattered foxing, otherwise fine.
The addressee, Giovanni Agostino Perotti (1769 - 1855), was Mattei's student in Bologna and was himself an important Italian composer, teacher and writer on music, who "as the maestro di cappella of S Marco...promoted several reforms concerning the re-ordering and expansion of the chapel’s music archive, the use of women’s voices in performances of old sacred music, the singing school for young choristers and the re-creation of the Società di S Cecilia (1832)." (Grove Online)
The letter concerns Mattei's former teacher, Padre Giovanni Battista Martini (1706 - 1784), one of the central figures in 18th century music. In a recently published critical volume by a certain Angeloni, Martini has been unfairly slandered over his ommission of Guido Arentino from his "Storia della Musica." Mattei furiously defends his teacher against the "idiot," who does not see the impossibility of including Aretino in a history which does not even touch the first century of Church music, not to mention the 11th century in which Aretino was active. Mattei concludes that Angeloni is "incongruente, maligno...e senza logica" [incongruent, mean-spirited, and without logic].
In Italian, in part: "Stampato in Parigi è uscito d'un certo Angeloni italiano in lode di Guido Aretino. Verso la metà del libro inveisce contro il P.m. Martini chiamandolo incongruente, privo d'amor patrio, e con tutto il dispreggio; ... perchè? per non aver parlato a lungo di Guido Aretino. oh che minchione. Come doveva parlare di Guido (senza incidenza) quando che Guido viveva ne Secolo undecimo, ed il P. Martini n'è arrivato nemmeno al primo secolo della Chiesa. Ne avrebbe parlot a lungo (come trovo nei suoi scritti) se avesse potuto presguire la stampa della sua Storia. Vorrei che V.S. giacchè vuole dare alle stampe l'elogio del P. Martini, prendesse con calore le sue diffese..."
The subject of the letter is Luigi Angeloni (1759 - 1842), author of "Sopra la vita ed il sapere di Guido d'Arezzo restauratore della scienza e dell'arte musica" in 1811, a work which Carlo Schmidl describes as a "dissertazione non troppo esatta" [dissertation not so exact].