Nicolò Isouard (1773-1818) - Te Deum (1792)
★ Follow music ► https://www.instagram.com/reciclassicat/ Composer: Nicolò Isouard (1773-1818) Work: Te Deum (1792) Performers: RosabeIIe Bianchi (soprano); CIaire Caruana (soprano); CIaire Massa (mezzo-soprano); CharIes Vincenti (tenor); AIbert Buttigieg (bass); Mirabitur Choir; MaIta PhiIharmonic Orchestra; Richard DivaII (1945-2017, conductor) Engraving: Georg Balthasar Probst (1732-1801) - Gezicht op de haven te Malta Image in high resolution: https://flic.kr/p/2iHydVB Further info: https://imslp.org/wiki/Category:Isouard,_Nicolo Listen free: https://open.spotify.com/album/5wMBBEZaO1yjXFKVmYxVwM --- Nicolò (Nicholas; Nicolas; Nicolo) Isouard [Isoiar, Nicolò; Nicolò de Malt(h)e] (Valletta, 16 May 1773 - Paris, 23 March 1818) French composer of Maltese birth. He was among those who determined a final form for opéra comique. Isouard was baptized John-Joachim-Edward-Nicholas. As a composer he often used the names Nicolas or Nicolò de Malte. His father, Fortunato Isouard Xuereb, was a merchant and secretary to the government storehouses, married to Elena Maria Lombardo. Constant Campion, Commander of the Maltese Order of Knights, financed Nicolas's first stay in Paris and education at the Pensionnat Berthaud, a preparatory school for the Engineers and Artillery, where he learnt Latin, drawing and mathematics, and the piano with Pin. The Revolution forced him to leave France in 1790, and back in Malta his father placed him in a merchant's office. He played the piano in society with success and studied counterpoint with Michelangelo Vella and Francesco Azzopardi, who were both associated with the Neapolitan school. On 10 November 1791 Vincenzo Anfossi (brother of the composer) became organist at the church of St-Jean-de-Jerusalem in Malta, and Isouard became his assistant. But, soon after, he was sent by his father to Palermo as a merchant's assistant where he studied composition with Giuseppe Amendola; later, in Naples, he worked for the German bankers Cutler and Herzelin, completing his composition studies with Sala and, thanks to Princess Belmonte's recommendation, with P.A. Guglielmi. Upon his return to Malta in 1794 after a successful premiere of his opera L’avviso al maritati in Florence, he was appointed as music director of the St. John Co- Cathedral in Valletta. After the occupation of Malta, he followed the French governor back to France, where in 1800 he began a long and successful career as a composer of opéra comique at the Théâtre Feydeau with Le petit page. Although Isouard was a key figure in the development of French comic opera during the first part of the 19th century, his compositions from before 1800 reflect his Italian Neapolitan training. Works from this period include nine operas (many performed in Malta), as well as several hymns, Psalms, and other smaller sacred works. Isouard's daughter Ninette (1814-1876), known as Ninette Nicolò, was a pianist and composer, mainly of songs. His brother Joseph-Alexandre-Victor-Antoine-Calcédoine-Jacques-Emmanuel Isoiar (1794-1863) was a tenor in opéra comique in France and elsewhere in Europe, afterwards (1825-33) becoming a director of theatrical companies in Lille, Ghent, Rouen, Nîmes and Toulouse.
★ Follow music ► https://www.instagram.com/reciclassicat/ Composer: Nicolò Isouard (1773-1818) Work: Te Deum (1792) Performers: RosabeIIe Bianchi (soprano); CIaire Caruana (soprano); CIaire Massa (mezzo-soprano); CharIes Vincenti (tenor); AIbert Buttigieg (bass); Mirabitur Choir; MaIta PhiIharmonic Orchestra; Richard DivaII (1945-2017, conductor) Engraving: Georg Balthasar Probst (1732-1801) - Gezicht op de haven te Malta Image in high resolution: https://flic.kr/p/2iHydVB Further info: https://imslp.org/wiki/Category:Isouard,_Nicolo Listen free: https://open.spotify.com/album/5wMBBEZaO1yjXFKVmYxVwM --- Nicolò (Nicholas; Nicolas; Nicolo) Isouard [Isoiar, Nicolò; Nicolò de Malt(h)e] (Valletta, 16 May 1773 - Paris, 23 March 1818) French composer of Maltese birth. He was among those who determined a final form for opéra comique. Isouard was baptized John-Joachim-Edward-Nicholas. As a composer he often used the names Nicolas or Nicolò de Malte. His father, Fortunato Isouard Xuereb, was a merchant and secretary to the government storehouses, married to Elena Maria Lombardo. Constant Campion, Commander of the Maltese Order of Knights, financed Nicolas's first stay in Paris and education at the Pensionnat Berthaud, a preparatory school for the Engineers and Artillery, where he learnt Latin, drawing and mathematics, and the piano with Pin. The Revolution forced him to leave France in 1790, and back in Malta his father placed him in a merchant's office. He played the piano in society with success and studied counterpoint with Michelangelo Vella and Francesco Azzopardi, who were both associated with the Neapolitan school. On 10 November 1791 Vincenzo Anfossi (brother of the composer) became organist at the church of St-Jean-de-Jerusalem in Malta, and Isouard became his assistant. But, soon after, he was sent by his father to Palermo as a merchant's assistant where he studied composition with Giuseppe Amendola; later, in Naples, he worked for the German bankers Cutler and Herzelin, completing his composition studies with Sala and, thanks to Princess Belmonte's recommendation, with P.A. Guglielmi. Upon his return to Malta in 1794 after a successful premiere of his opera L’avviso al maritati in Florence, he was appointed as music director of the St. John Co- Cathedral in Valletta. After the occupation of Malta, he followed the French governor back to France, where in 1800 he began a long and successful career as a composer of opéra comique at the Théâtre Feydeau with Le petit page. Although Isouard was a key figure in the development of French comic opera during the first part of the 19th century, his compositions from before 1800 reflect his Italian Neapolitan training. Works from this period include nine operas (many performed in Malta), as well as several hymns, Psalms, and other smaller sacred works. Isouard's daughter Ninette (1814-1876), known as Ninette Nicolò, was a pianist and composer, mainly of songs. His brother Joseph-Alexandre-Victor-Antoine-Calcédoine-Jacques-Emmanuel Isoiar (1794-1863) was a tenor in opéra comique in France and elsewhere in Europe, afterwards (1825-33) becoming a director of theatrical companies in Lille, Ghent, Rouen, Nîmes and Toulouse.