Andrea Luchesi (?),
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Andrea Luchesi
Vita e Opere
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The biographical informations are taken from from the studies and from the writings of George Taboga and from the site web
www.andrealuchesi.it
Andrea Luca Luchese is born in 1741 at Motta of Livenza (Treviso). The last name "Luchese" as written to the birth, changes, according to documents and occasions, to Luchesi, Lucchesi or Luckesi.
His brother Don Matteo, organist of the Cathedral and public preceptor, teaches him music, bedides the literary disciplines and mathematics.
1756 - 1770
With the protection of the nobleman Jseppo Morosini Luchesi can study with the best Teachers present in Venice: in 1756 he is student of Gioacchino Cocchi. After the departure of Cocchi for London, he studies with Giuseppe Paolucci, Giuseppe Saratelli, Ferdinando Bertoni, organist and assistant of Galuppi in the Ducal Chapel of St. Mark in Venice, and with the famous Baldassare Galuppi in person.
Luchesi tightens friendship with the theorists of music Padre Francesco Antonio Vallotti and the count Giordano Riccati.
In few years he becomes a famous organist. We he was just 20 years old he enters to belong to the commission for the licenses of the organists and the cembalistis.
He writes a Serenade for the duke of Brunswick (1764).
The following year he directs to the cymbal in the theater in Padua the 'Antigone' of Tommaso Traetta.
Its reputation spreads in Europe, thanks to the count Giacomo Durazzo, who is the imperial ambassador in Venice.
Luchesi interweaves the first contacts with the prince Nikolaus Esterhazy I the Magnificent one to which he sells Symphonies that are attributed to Haydn: for instance Hob. 13, 22 and 24.
Its first comical work, entitled 'The island of the fortune', on the libretto of Giovanni Bertati, is represented by the company of Kurz Bernardon at the Hoftheather in Vienna.
'The jealous husband' (1766) written for the theater Dolfin of Treviso is replied in Venice in 1766 for a private Academy.
He composes a Cantata for the duke of Württemberg (1767), on the libretto of Gasparo Gozzi.
The abbot Pietro Chiari writes for him the book of the opera 'Women always women' (1767).
He works with the Venetian Ospedali and writes the 'Sacer Trialogus' (1768) for the Incurabili, while in the 1768 is entrusted by Father Vallotti to inaugurate the great organ of the Basilica of the Saint in Padua.
Two Symphonies of his and a Kyrie are brought by Naumann to Dresden.
He introduces in a private theater 'The loving player' (1769).
Then sells to the prince Esterhazy the Symphonies, that are attributet now to Haydn, Hob. 41 and 55.
1770 - 1771
He continues his dispatches to Esterhazy. Composes an Evening and a Mass in Verona (1770) in collaboration with other musicians.
During the Carnival of 1771 he knows the two Mozarts in Venice: Leopold Mozart and his child Wolfgang Amadeus. The Mozarts take 'in loan' one of his concerts for cymbal, that Wolfgang still plays in 1778 and that father and sister will use habitually.
He ends the Requiem for the duke of Montealegre, the Spanish ambassador who died at the beginnings of July of 1771. The Mass is performed on the 4 of Jully 1771 in the church of St. Geremia.
It composes the music for the solemn party of St. Lawrence, then 'The marriage for astuteness' (1771) for the theater St. Benedict of Venice.
1771 - 1774
Luchesi is invited to Bonn by the Prince Elector Maximilian Friederich, archbishop of Colony, as private Teacher of chapel. The contract is temporarily (triennial) to restore to health the Chapel of court, that Ludwig van senior Beethoven has disastrously directed for 10 years.
Luchesi departs for Bonn in the middle of October bringing with itself sacred works, instrumental and chamber music and theatrical works, besides collaborators, singers, a teacher of Italian diction and the excellent violinist Gaetano Mattioli, compared in that epoch to the Cannabich of Mannheim.
From Bonn he starts over selling music sending it to Esterhazy among 1771 and 1774,
In 1773 Ludwig van senior Beethoven dies. The prince Max Friedrich offers the position of Kappellmeister to Luchesi for the live. Luchesi accepts, he naturalizes himselfs and becomes a subject of the principality of Colony.
As Kappelmeister, Luchesi has the assignment to instruct the students and his students were extraordinary: Antonin Reicha, his cousins Bernhard and Andreas Roemberg and Ludwig van Beethoven, that is his student from 1781 for about 12 years.
The sacred production of Luchesi destined to the Chapel of court is since then anonymous; the instrumental works, according to the routine, circulate under other names.
1774 - 1784
Between 1774 and the 1782 Luchesi retrains the musical Chapel of Bonn that in 1782 is finally signalled as the third one among the 23 greater musical Chapels of Germany.
In the 1775 he marries Anthonietta Josepha of Antoin, that is the daughter of the most influential adviser of the court.
He becomes owner of two rich houses in the city, of a farm and of a vineyard purchased with the money collected with the selling of his music, that have circulated in the name of Haydn since 1763 and with the name of his brother-in-law Fedinand of Antoin from 1774 to 1784.
From 1784 to 1791 its Symphonies and other pieces are surrendered in the name of Mozart.
1784 - 1794
Recalled in Venice in 1784, having gotten the permission from the Prince, he composes on application of the Serenissima the serious work 'Ademira' in honor of the visit of the king Gustavo III of Sweden. While he is in Venice his protector prince Max Friedrich dies. Max Franz, protecting Mozart, tries in vain to free himself of Luchesi and make place to Mozart.
Despite the attempts of the prince, for instance the drastic reduction of the salary, he succeeds in maintaining the position of Kappelmeister.
Before 1784 he writes 'The seven words', three masses and 28 Symphonies, headed now to Joseph Haydn, besides 10 Symphonies, headed now to Mozart.
The new prince Max Franz imposes him to register the works, first headed to his brother-in-law Ferdinand Di anthoin, to Mozart: Symphonies, Quartets in the style of Haydn and theatrical music.
From 1784 Mozart it starts to write a personal catalog of the works. For the purchase of works from Luchesi, he increase his debts, that will suffocay Mozart since 1789 to 1791.
Luchesi composes in 1785 the Cantata for the investiture of the Prince Max Franz, while in the 1790 Joseph Haydn reaches Bonn with the impresario Johann Peter Salomon, friend of Luchesi, to purchase the symphonies "London" for his first tour.
1794 - 1801
The French troops invade in 1794 the principality of Colony. The prince Max Franz is forced to the escape, bringing with himself the precious folder of the Musical Chapel, that partly we meet today in the folder estense in Modena.
They are probably of Luchesi the most greater part of the anonymous, or works N.N., still preserved at the estense Library in Modena.
In the 1796 Luchesi composes his "Easy Sonata" for piano and violin. Luchesi after some employments at Passau, he still establishes in Bonn and there dies on the 23rd of May 1801.
The sacred music of Andrew Luchesi is performed in Bonn by the student Ferdinad Heller up to the years 1830. Then the initiated cancellation in 1784 becomes inexorable and Luchesi disappears from the biographies of Beethoven of Mozart and of Haydn.
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