Work TitleSebben crudeleAlt ernative. TitleComposerI-Catalogue Number I-Cat. No.IRK 52KeyF majorMovements/Sections Mov'ts/Sec's1Year/Date of Composition Y/D of Comp.2012First Pub lication.2012LibrettistAnonLanguageItalianDedicationTo Antonio (1670-1736) & Christoph (1683-1760)Average Duration Avg. Duration3 minutesComposer Time Period Comp.
Sebben Crudele Caldara
PeriodPiece StyleInstrumentationMezzo-soprano and PianoMisc. Comments About the PieceAfter doing a bit of work making an edition of two arias from Christoph Graupner's opera/pastorale 'La costanza vince l'inganno', 'Sebben crudele' in particular, I just got a hankering to set this short text (author anonymous) myself in a Neo-Baroque, yet quite obviously modern setting. Antonio Caldara also set this opera and his version of 'Sebben crudele' is quite well known and often performed. Unfortunately, after 300 years, Graupner's version is for all intents and purposes still unknown (though I posted the typeset version on the Graupner page to hopefully change that). So now the world has at least three versions of 'Sebben, crudele' to choose from.
Antonio CaldaraAntonio Caldara (1670 – 28 December 1736) was an Italian.Caldara was born in (exact date unknown), the son of a violinist. He became a chorister at in Venice, where he learned several instruments, probably under the instruction of. In 1699 he relocated to, where he became to the inept, a pensionary of France with a French wife, who took the French side in the. Caldara removed from Mantua in 1707, after the French were expelled from Italy, then moved on to as chamber composer to, the pretender to the Spanish throne (following the death of in 1700 without any direct heir) and who kept a royal court at Barcelona. There, he wrote some operas that are the first Italian operas performed in Spain. He moved on to, becoming maestro di cappella to.
While there he wrote in 1710 La costanza in amor vince l'inganno ( Faithfulness in Love Defeats Treachery) for the public theatre at.With the unexpected death of from at the age of 32 in April 1711, Caldara deemed it prudent to renew his connections with Charles III – soon to become Holy Roman Emperor Charles VI – as he travelled from Spain to via northern Italy. Caldara visited Vienna in 1712, but found and firmly ensconced in the two highest musical posts. He stopped at the court on his return journey to Rome, where he was well received (and to which he subsequently sent one new opera annually from 1716 to 1727). In 1716, following the death the previous year of Ziani and the promotion of Fux to Hofkapellmeister, Caldara was appointed Vize-Kapellmeister to the Imperial Court in Vienna, and there he remained until his death.Caldara is best known as a composer of,. Several of his works have by, the court poet at Vienna from 1729.Noted works Operas. Sofonisba (F. Silvani), Venezia, Teatro San Giovanni Grisostomo/, 1708.
(1714). Lucio Papirio dittatore , Vienna, 1719. (Pasquini), Vienna, 1729. (Metastasio), Vienna, 1732.
(Metastasio), Vienna, 1733. (Metastasio), Vienna, 1734. Achille in Sciro (Metastasio), Vienna, 1736.Oratorios. Maddalena ai piedi di Cristo (c. 1700). Santo Stefano, primo Re d'Ungheria (1713). La Conversione di Clodoveo Re di Francia (1715).
(1730). Il Re del dolore (1722). Stabat Mater (c. 1725)Others. , on the occasion of the marriage of to on 2 August 1708. ' (Aria from La costanza in amor vince l'inganno, 1710). D'improvviso (cantata).
Sebben Crudele Lyrics
'Alma del core' (aria). 'Selve amiche' (aria). Missa Dolorosa (1735). La Costanza vince il rigore (cantata). Crucifixus. Come Ragio di Sol. Christmas CantadaReferences.