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Croatian Musicians in Venice, Rome and Naples during the Period 1650–1750

Among musicians from Croatia proper, Dalmatia and the Dubrovnik Republic it has been possible up to now to identify five outstanding personalities, coming to and being active in Venice, Rome and/or Naples in the 1650-1750 period. They were either composers and performers or writers about various music issues. Chronologically regarded, they were (with names given in Italian graphic form): Vicenzo Comnen (1590-1667), Georgio Crisanio (1618-1683), Cristoforo Ivanovich (1628-1688), Domenico Giovanni Sebenico (1630/40-1705), and Giuseppe Michele Stratico (1728 - after 1782). Sebenico and Stratico were professional performers and composers, Comnen was an amateur composer and Humanist at large, Crisanio was a theologian, political writer and amateur music theoretician, and Ivanovich was a semi-professional libretto author and opera historian. Sebenico and Ivanovich were active in Venice, Stratico in Padua (Venice), Crisanio in Rome, and Comnen probably in Naples. Sebenico was a singer and instrumentalist who composed several operas ("Atalanta" ; "Leonida in Sparta" ; "L'oppresso sollevato" ; music not preserved) and some church music in an advanced Baroque style, and Stratico was a violin virtuoso who composed symphonies, concertos, string quartets and other chamber music in Pre-Classicist manner. Comnen was a composer of few late madrigals, and he wrote a treatise on music (not preserved). Ivanovich wrote several operatic librettos (set to music by F. Cavalli, P.A. Ziani and some others) and published a chronicle of early Venetian opera ("Minerva al tavolino"). Crisanio published in Rome two short musico-theoretical treatises ("Asserta musicalia" ; "Tabulae novae exhibentes musicam"), constructed a 'Novum instrumentum at cantus mira facilitate compendos', and compiled a chapter on music in his treatise on politics (remained unpublished).

Croatia proper, Dalmatia, Dubrovnik Republic, migration, musicians, composers, performers, Vicenzo Comnen, Georgio Crisanio, Cristoforo Ivanovich, Domenico Giovanni Sebenico, Giuseppe Michele Stratico

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