Johann Gottlieb Naumann

Johann Gottlieb Naumann was a prominent Saxon opera author of the Classical period. He received his first musical instruction on the Kreuzschule, Dresden, where he was most likely put into the tutelage of Kapellmeister Hasse. He was asked with the Swedish violinist Wesström to tour Italy as his accompanist in 1757, however the trip demonstrated far much longer than planned. Actually, it lasted some seven years, where Naumann researched with Tartini in Padua and Padre Martini in Bologna. His debut as an operatic composer implemented in 1762 when, after a gathering in Venice with Hasse, the Teatro San Samuele staged Naumann’s Il tesoro insidiato. 2 yrs afterwards, Naumann’s Li creduti spiriti, constructed for the Venetian carnival in cooperation with two various other composers, guaranteed the endorsement of Hasse and Ferrandini, both of whom suggested him to get a post as second chapel composer in Dresden. There, Naumann was quickly advertised to chamber composer in 1765. Subsequently, he made a decision to go back to Italy for 3 years, where he made up his opera La clemenza di Tito, staged in Dresden in 1769. Naumann’s following stay static in Italy between 1772 and 1774 additional consolidated his status as a significant operatic composer. He was finally appointed Kapellmeister at Dresden in 1776. In 1777, the Swedish ambassador Count number Lowenhjelm asked him to go to Stockholm, where he aided Ruler Gustavus III in re-forming the Hovkapell. He also constructed operas for the Swedish courtroom, many of that have been tremendously successful. The best possible, Cora och Alonzo, was staged for the inauguration from the Royal Opera Home. In 1782, Gustavus III commissioned a Swedish nationalist opera, Gustaf Wasa, which received its premiere in 1786 and continued to be Sweden’s most well-known opera for over a hundred years, with an increase of than 250 shows. In 1785, Naumann guested as opera composer and conductor for the Danish courtroom and reorganized the opera at Copenhagen. He’d not invest in an extended agreement there, nevertheless, and came back to Dresden, getting Oberkapellmeister. In 1792, he wedded Catarina von Grodtschilling, girl of the Danish vice-admiral, and even though during his last years he contemplated a German nationwide opera predicated on his encounters in Scandinavia, it under no circumstances materialized.