Otto Nicolai |

Otto Nicolai

Pamaopera mashanu akaitwa naNicolai, akararama panguva yaSchumann naMendelssohn, imwe chete inozivikanwa, The Merry Wives of Windsor, iyo yaizivikanwa zvikuru kwehafu yezana - kusvika pakupera kwezana ramakore rechi XNUMX, Verdi's Falstaff isati yaonekwa, akashandisa chirongwa chemuseke mumwechete naShakespeare.

Otto Nicolai, akaberekwa munaJune 9, 1810 muguta guru reEast Prussia, Königsberg, akararama upenyu hupfupi asi hune simba. Baba vacho, muimbi asingazivikanwe, vakaedza kuona hurongwa hwavo hwekuda uye kuita mwana mudiki kubva kumukomana ane chipo. Zvidzidzo zvinotambudza zvakakurudzira Otto kuti aedze kakawanda kutiza kubva mumba mababa vake, izvo zvakazobudirira apo wechidiki aive nemakore gumi nematanhatu. Kubva 1827 anga achigara muBerlin, achidzidza kuimba, achiridza ogani uye kuumbwa nemuimbi ane mukurumbira, mukuru weSinging Chapel KF Zelter. B. Klein aiva mumwe mudzidzisi wake wekunyora muna 1828-1830. Senhengo yeKwaya yekwaya Nicolai muna 1829 haana kungotora chikamu mukuita kwakakurumbira kweBach's Passion maererano naMateo yaiitwa naMendelssohn, asi akaimbawo basa raJesu.

Gore rakatevera racho, bhuku rokutanga raNicolai rakadhindwa. Mushure mekunge apedza zvidzidzo zvake, anowana basa semumiriri wemumiriri wePrussia muRome uye anobva Berlin. MuRoma, akadzidza mabasa evatenzi vekare vekuItaly, kunyanya Palestrina, akaenderera mberi nezvidzidzo zvake zvekunyora naG. Baini (1835) uye akawana mukurumbira muguta guru reItaly semudzidzisi wepiyano uye piyano. Muna 1835, akanyora mimhanzi yekufa kwaBellini, uye inotevera - yekufa kwemuimbi akakurumbira Maria Malibran.

Anenge makore gumi ekugara muItaly akavhiringwa kwenguva pfupi nebasa sekondakita uye mudzidzisi wekuimba paVienna Court Opera (1837–1838). Kudzokera kuItaly, Nicolai akatanga kushanda pamitambo yeItaly librettos (rimwe rawo rakanga rakagadzirirwa Verdi), iro rinoratidza simba risina mubvunzo revanyori vakakurumbira venguva iyoyo - Bellini naDonizetti. Kwemakore matatu (1839-1841), ese mana operas naNicolai akaitirwa mumaguta akasiyana eItari, uye The Templar, yakavakirwa paWalter Scott's novel Ivanhoe, yave yakakurumbira kwemakore angangoita gumi: yakaitirwa muNaples, Vienna. uye Berlin, Barcelona neLisbon, Budapest neBucharest, Petersburg neCopenhagen, Mexico City neBuenos Aires.

Nicolai anoshandisa ma1840s muVienna. Ari kuita shanduro itsva yeimwe yemitambo yake yekuItaly yakashandurirwa muchiGerman. Pamusoro pekuita zviitiko muCourt Chapel, Nicolai ari kuwanawo mukurumbira semurongi wemakonzati ephilharmonic, umo, pasi pehutungamiriri hwake, kunyanya, Beethoven's Ninth Symphony inoitwa. Muna 1848 akatamira kuBerlin, akashanda semutungamiri weCourt Opera uye Dome Cathedral. Musi waKurume 9, 1849, munyori anoitisa mutambo wake wekutanga opera, The Merry Wives of Windsor.

Mwedzi miviri gare gare, musi waMay 11, 1849, Nicolai anofa muBerlin.

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