Giuseppe Anelli

Giuseppe Anelli (* ca. 1787 in Piacenza; † 20. November 1865 in London^[1]), im Deutschen auch Josef Anelli, war ein italienischer Sänger, Gesangslehrer, Gitarrist und Komponist.

Leben

Anelli kam als Sänger und Gitarrist über Turin nach Portugal an den Hof der Paoline Borghese. 1813 zog er nach Paris, wo er unter anderem mit Fernando Sor zusammentraf. Bereits 1815 ging er nach London, wo er als Gesangslehrer der Prinzessin Augusta in London (möglicherweise Augusta von Hannover, die ab 1806 wieder in London lebte) in Erscheinung trat.

1817 traf er in Bath ein, wo er zunächst als Lehrer für italienische Sangeskunst, Sprache und Literatur auftrat. Erst 1823, mit seinem Umzug nach Bristol, betätigte er sich wieder als Gitarrenlehrer.^[2] Er verfasste die Gitarrenschule New method for the guitar sowie eine Geschichte der Gitarre (History of the guitar, erschienen bei Somerton in Bristol).

Nach 17 Jahren in Bristol zog Anelli 1840 über Exeter (1840–1843), Cheltenham (1843–1848) und Edinburgh (1848–1851) zurück nach London, wo er 1865 in Islington starb.

Werk

Anelli schrieb rund 300 Stücke für Gitarre bzw. Lieder mit Gitarrenbegleitung sowie zwei Konzerte für Gitarre und Orchester, deren Noten verloren gingen.^[3]

Auswahl:

Non dormo un’ora al gano (Arie)
Grazie o pietosi Dei (Arie)
Vado in traccia del ben mio (Cavatina)
Povero cor tu palpiti (Cavatina)
Child of heart with the Golden Hair (Cavatina)
Tre cavatine
Estrate dalla cantata
Introduction and Variations on 'Dal tuo stellato soglio' (aus Rossinis Oper „Mosè in Egitto“)
The Little Mountaineer (Arrangement zu einem Stück von W. Ball)
The Merry Mountain Pipe (Arrangement zu einem Stück von J.A. Barnett)
The Minstrel to his Steed
Variations on 'Deh con te' (aus Bellinis Oper „Norma“)
Variations on 'Mira O Norma' (aus Bellinis Oper „Norma“)

Aufnahmen

Massimiliano Filippini: Virtuosi italiani della chitarra (Nava, Anelli, Pettoletti, Molino, di Domenico, Dominici). Cremona 19047. 2019

Literatur

Andrew Britton: The guitar and the Bristol school of artists. In: Early Music. Band 41, Nr. 4, S. 585–594.
Stuart W. Button: Giuseppe Anelli. L’eremita in Inghilterra. In: Il Fronimo. Band 79, Nr. 4, 1992.
Josef Zuth: Handbuch der Laute und Gitarre. Verlag der Zeitschrift für die Gitarre, Wien 1926 (1928), S. 16 (Anelli, Josef).

Weblinks

Noten und Audiodateien von Giuseppe Anelli im International Music Score Library Project

Einzelnachweise

↑ Andrew Britton: The Guitar in the Romantic Period: its musical and social development, with special reference to Bristol and Bath. Ph.D. thesis, Royal Holloway College, University of London. London 2010, S. 381: „Death Certificates: Giuseppe Anelli, No. 134G, London (Islington East), dated 20 November 1865“
↑ Andrew Britton: The guitar and the Bristol school of artists. In: Early Music. Band 41, Nr. 4, S. 585–594, doi:10.1093/em/cat084.
↑ John McCormick: Songs with guitar from the age of Napoleon. In: Digital Guitar Archive. 16. März 2022, abgerufen am 27. Februar 2023 (englisch): „Wrote about 300 songs with guitar. Little is known abour Anelli concerning his exact date of birth or his birthplace. He was distinguishing himself as a performer as early as 1809 in Turin. For some time he was employed by the Princess Paolina Borghese, Napoleon’s sister. During this time, he not only gave solo guitar concerts, but often performed as a vocal soloist to his own guitar accompaniment. At the end of 1813 Anelli left Italy for Paris, where he stayed for a short time. .There he came to know Fernando Sor and became his rival in guitar concerts. He was sometimes judged by Parisian music critics to be the better performer of the two. Here he played for the public his two Concerti for guitar and orchestra, the scores of which are now presumably lost“

Personendaten
NAME	Anelli, Giuseppe
ALTERNATIVNAMEN	Anelli, Joseph
KURZBESCHREIBUNG	italienischer Gitarrist und Komponist
GEBURTSDATUM	1787
GEBURTSORT	Piacenza
STERBEDATUM	20. November 1865
STERBEORT	London

[1] Andrew Britton: The Guitar in the Romantic Period: its musical and social development, with special reference to Bristol and Bath. Ph.D. thesis, Royal Holloway College, University of London. London 2010, S. 381: „Death Certificates: Giuseppe Anelli, No. 134G, London (Islington East), dated 20 November 1865“

[2] Andrew Britton: The guitar and the Bristol school of artists. In: Early Music. Band 41, Nr. 4, S. 585–594, doi:10.1093/em/cat084.

[3] John McCormick: Songs with guitar from the age of Napoleon. In: Digital Guitar Archive. 16. März 2022, abgerufen am 27. Februar 2023 (englisch): „Wrote about 300 songs with guitar. Little is known abour Anelli concerning his exact date of birth or his birthplace. He was distinguishing himself as a performer as early as 1809 in Turin. For some time he was employed by the Princess Paolina Borghese, Napoleon’s sister. During this time, he not only gave solo guitar concerts, but often performed as a vocal soloist to his own guitar accompaniment. At the end of 1813 Anelli left Italy for Paris, where he stayed for a short time. .There he came to know Fernando Sor and became his rival in guitar concerts. He was sometimes judged by Parisian music critics to be the better performer of the two. Here he played for the public his two Concerti for guitar and orchestra, the scores of which are now presumably lost“

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