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Antonio Lotti
Person · male · Republic of Venice · Venice · born 1667 · died 1740 · recording since 1999
Italian Baroque composer (1667–1740)
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Also known as 洛蒂
Timeline
8 events▣ Album 5◦ Birth 1† Death 1★ Debut release 1
1660s
1740s
1990s
· Debut release
Debut release: Johannespassion / Miserere Mei
First documented Album in the MusicBrainz discography.
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2000s
2010s
2020s
Biography
English biography875 words · 6 sectionssource: wikipedia-en · licence CC BY-SA 4.0 · revision 1374188325
Biography
Antonio Lotti (5 January 1667 – 5 January 1740) was an Italian composer of the Baroque era.
Biography
Lotti was born in Venice, although his father Matteo was Kapellmeister at Hanover at the time. Oral tradition says that in 1682, Lotti began studying with Lodovico Fuga and Giovanni Legrenzi, both of whom were employed at St Mark's Basilica, Venice's principal church, although there is no documentary evidence.
Venice
Lotti made his career at St Mark's, first as an alto singer (from 1689), then as assistant to the second organist, then as second organist (from 1692), then (from 1704) as first organist, and finally (from 1736) as maestro di cappella, a position he held until his death.
Because of the paucity of solid scholarship until recent decades, older reference books cite a good deal of misinformation regarding Lotti's biography. Cicogna's 1834 Delle inscrizioni Veneziane and Francesco Caffi’s 1854 Storia della Musica relied on oral tradition more than a century old to name works that Lotti supposedly composed for the Ospedale degl’ Incurabili.
Later studies built upon that assertion to name Lotti as one of the supposed maestri of the Incurabili. The 2001 New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians went a step further to try to extrapolate when Lotti's period of employment at the Incurabili would supposedly have been, building on a house of cards.
However, recent studies establish that there is no documentary evidence whatsoever of any such employment ever taking place. The most current and most comprehensive studies by Caroline Giron-Panel and Pier Gillio establish conclusively that Lotti was not formally employed by the Incurabili, and that there is no evidence of his having composed any music for that institution, even on informal terms.
According to one nineteenth-century biographer, Lotti was a notable teacher, with Domenico Alberti, Benedetto Marcello, Giovanni Battista Pescetti, Baldassare Galuppi, Giuseppe Saratelli and Jan Dismas Zelenka among those believed to have been his pupils, although evidence is lacking in some cases. He was married to the noted soprano Santa Stella.
What is indeed well-documented is Lotti's employment at various other Venetian institutions, including the Scuola dello Spirito Santo, one of the scuole piccole. The governing body of the scuola, the Provveditori di Comun, contracted Antonio Lotti in 1695 to provide music at the scuola for the annual feast of Pentecost and the two days after for total of at least eight years. More significantly, he redistributed the balance between singers and instrumentalists in a way that reflects a change of musical texture and style in the sacred music performed there.
In 1717, he was given leave to go to Dresden.
Dresden
There is one more venue for which Lotti is known to have composed sacred music, namely, the Dresden court of Friedrich Augustus I, Elector of Saxony) where Lotti was in residence from 1717 to 1719. While in Venice, the king had engaged Lotti specifically to compose for the Italian opera troupe that he had assembled. But the Electorate seemed to have gone to lengths to keep the visiting Italians away from the resident chapel musicians, particularly from Kapellmeister Johann Christoph Schmidt.
“The king also authorized some appointments only under the condition “that this not disturb anything among the orchestra.” The electoral prince was even forced, when the Italians were already in Dresden, to declare outright in a letter to the Count [Christian Heinrich von Watzdorf, minister of domestic affairs] that he would take [the Italians] into his special protection and protect them against any ill will... “about which, the King has declared that His Majesty will afford them every possible protection, whatever it takes, that [Court Chapel master Johann Christoph Schmidt] should have no business with them.”
In Dresden, he also composed operas, including Giove in Argo, Teofane and Li quattro elementi (all with librettos by Antonio Maria Lucchini). Other works written in Venice include Giustino; Trionfo dell'Innocenza; the first act of Tirsi, Achille Placato, Teuzzone, Ama più che non si crede, Il comando inteso e tradito, Sidonio, Isaccio tiranno, La forze de sangue, Il Tradimento traditore di sé stesso, L'Infedeltà punita, Poresenna, Irene Augusta, Polidoro, Foca superbo, Alessandro Severo, Il Vincitore Generossi and Odii del Sangue delusi.
Return to Venice
He returned to his job at San Marco in Venice in 1719 and remained there until his death in 1740.
Compositions
Lotti wrote in a variety of forms, producing masses, cantatas, madrigals, around thirty operas, and instrumental music. Some of his sacred choral works are unaccompanied (a cappella) but many of them are composed in the concertato style with strings, basso continuo, and occasionally oboes and trumpets. His more progressive works foreshadow the galant style, considered a transition between the established Baroque and emerging Classical styles.
Johann Sebastian Bach, George Frideric Handel, and Jan Dismas Zelenka all had copies of Lotti's Missa Sapientiae, a Kyrie–Gloria Mass (Kyrie in G minor, Gloria in G major).
No longer attributed to Lotti:
The Magnificat in C major, BWV Anh. 30 used to be attributed to Lotti, but appears to have been composed by Pietro Torri.
The Kyrie–Gloria Mass for double choir, BWV Anh. 167, for which Lotti was suggested as composer in the second half of the 19th century, an attribution that was thought possible until the late 20th century, has more recently been attributed to other composers.
Discography & profile
Normalised profile
Percentiles are computed over every artist in the database, so a tier-3 artist can still sit in the 95th percentile on a single axis.
| Metric | Value | Percentile |
|---|---|---|
| Wikipedia language versions | 28 | 89th |
| Spotify monthly listeners | — | no data |
| Release groups in DB | 5 | 78.9th |
| Studio albums | 5 | 84.6th |
| Awards recorded | 0 | 0th |
| Timeline events | 8 | 84.1th |
| Recording span (years) | -259 | 2.3th |
| Genres | 6 | 91th |
Percentiles are computed at render time; missing values mean the artist has no data on that axis.
Discography (5 release groups · 5 studio albums)
Albums · 5
Johannespassion / Miserere Mei
1999 · studio album
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Tracklist · 2 tracks · 57:46
1St. John Passion38:402Miserere Mei19:061999 · studio album
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Tracklist · 30 tracks · 1:08:32
1Requiem in F major - Requiem aeternam3:282Requiem in F major - Kyrie eleison6:043Requiem in F major - Dies Irae - Dies Irae3:294Requiem in F major - Dies Irae - Quantus Tremor1:335Requiem in F major - Dies Irae - Tuba Mirum1:056Requiem in F major - Dies Irae - Mors Stupebit2:427Requiem in F major - Dies Irae - Liber Scriptus2:158Requiem in F major - Dies Irae - Judex Ergo0:489Requiem in F major - Dies Irae - Quid Sum Miser2:1510Requiem in F major - Dies Irae - Rex Tremendae1:0411Requiem in F major - Dies Irae - Recordare, Jesu Pie2:1612Requiem in F major - Dies Irae - Quaerens Me0:5113Requiem in F major - Dies Irae - Juste Judex1:2614Requiem in F major - Dies Irae - Ingemisco0:4315Requiem in F major - Dies Irae - Qui Mariam2:4316Requiem in F major - Dies Irae - Preces Meae1:2317Requiem in F major - Dies Irae - Inter Oves1:1618Requiem in F major - Dies Irae - Confutatis Maledictis2:2319Requiem in F major - Dies Irae - Oro Supplex0:5520Requiem in F major - Dies Irae - Lacrimosa1:4521Requiem in F major - Dies Irae - Judicandus1:5422Requiem in F major - Offertorio - Domine Jesu Christe1:4823Requiem in F major - Offertorio - Hostias Et Preces1:3724Requiem in F major - Offertorio - Quam Olim1:0325Miserere Mei Deus9:3926Credo In Unum Deum - Credo3:2827Credo In Unum Deum - Crucifixus3:4028Credo In Unum Deum - Et Resurrexit, Presto2:4129Credo In Unum Deum - Sanctus, Allegro0:5230Credo In Unum Deum - Et Vitam1:262003 · studio album
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Tracklist · 29 tracks · 1:01:36
1Missa Sapientiae: Kyrie: Kyrie eleison2:152Missa Sapientiae: Kyrie: Christe eleison2:103Missa Sapientiae: Kyrie: Kyrie eleison2:194Missa Sapientiae: Gloria: Gloria in excelsis2:275Missa Sapientiae: Gloria: Laudamus te2:036Missa Sapientiae: Gloria: Gratias agimus tibi1:327Missa Sapientiae: Gloria: Domine Deus, Rex coelestis2:518Missa Sapientiae: Gloria: Domine Fili2:119Missa Sapientiae: Gloria: Domine Deus, Agnus Dei1:2010Missa Sapientiae: Gloria: Qui tollis peccata mundi3:3011Missa Sapientiae: Gloria: Qui sedes2:3312Missa Sapientiae: Gloria: Quoniam tu solus sanctus2:1213Missa Sapientiae: Gloria: Cum Sancto Spiritu2:0914Magnificat, BWV 243a: I. Magnificat anima mea2:4915Magnificat, BWV 243a: II. Et exultavit2:1116Magnificat, BWV 243a: III. Von Himmel hoch1:4017Magnificat, BWV 243a: IV. Quia respexit2:2718Magnificat, BWV 243a: V. Omnes generationes1:1119Magnificat, BWV 243a: VI. Quia fecit1:4120Magnificat, BWV 243a: VII. Freut euch und jubiliert1:1521Magnificat, BWV 243a: VIII. Et misericordia eius3:1822Magnificat, BWV 243a: IX. Fecit potentiam1:4523Magnificat, BWV 243a: X. Gloria in excelsis1:0624Magnificat, BWV 243a: XI. Deposuit potentes1:4225Magnificat, BWV 243a: XII. Esurientes implevit2:3426Magnificat, BWV 243a: XIII. Virga Jesse floruit2:5127Magnificat, BWV 243a: XIV. Suscepit Israel2:0428Magnificat, BWV 243a: XV. Sicut locutus est1:2429Magnificat, BWV 243a: XVI. Gloria Patri et Filio2:062016 · studio album
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Tracklist · 16 tracks · 1:19:31
1Dixit Dominus8:312Miserere in C Minor: I. Miserere mei Deus4:173Miserere in C Minor: II. Quoniam iniquitatem4:144Miserere in C Minor: III. Auditui meo4:355Miserere in C Minor: IV. Cor mundum crea7:136Miserere in C Minor: V. Quoniam si voluisses6:017Missa Sancti Christophori: I. Kyrie4:378Missa Sancti Christophori: II. Gloria8:349Missa Sancti Christophori: III. Credo - Crucifixus a 810:2110Missa Sancti Christophori: IV. Sanctus2:1711Missa Sancti Christophori: V. Benedictus1:5612Missa Sancti Christophori: VI. Agnus Dei3:3813Credo in G Minor: I. Credo in unum Deum3:3314Credo in G Minor: II. Et incarnatus est - Crucifixus a 64:5115Credo in G Minor: III. Ritornello - Et in Spiritum2:3716Credo in G Minor: IV. Et unam sanctam2:162024 · studio album
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Tracklist · 33 tracks · 1:21:27
1Dixit Dominus in G minor: I. Dixit Dominus4:042Dixit Dominus in G minor: II. Judicabit in nationibus1:493Dixit Dominus in G minor: III. De torrente in via bibet3:154Dixit Dominus in G minor: IV. Sicut erat in principio2:135Cruxifixus à 53:366Dixit Dominus, HWV 232: I. Dixit Dominus6:057Dixit Dominus, HWV 232: II. Virgam virtutis tuæ3:118Dixit Dominus, HWV 232: III. Tecum principium in die virtutis3:229Dixit Dominus, HWV 232: IV. Juravit Dominus2:3110Dixit Dominus, HWV 232: V. Tu es sacerdos in æternum1:3811Dixit Dominus, HWV 232: VI. Dominus a dextris tuis2:5212Dixit Dominus, HWV 232: VII. Judicabit in nationibus4:0313Dixit Dominus, HWV 232: VIII. De torrente in via bibet3:3214Dixit Dominus, HWV 232: IX. Gloria Patri, et Filio6:5415Miserere mei in C minor: I. Miserere mei Deus2:2316Miserere mei in C minor: II. Et secundum multitudinem1:1017Miserere mei in C minor: III. Amplius lava me2:0318Miserere mei in C minor: IV. Quoniam iniquitatem meam0:4319Miserere mei in C minor: V. Tibi soli peccavi1:3320Miserere mei in C minor: VI. Ecce enim in iniquitatibus1:1621Miserere mei in C minor: VII. Ecce enim veritatem1:1322Miserere mei in C minor: VIII. Asperges me hysopo2:4623Miserere mei in C minor: IX. Auditui meo dabis gaudium1:2724Miserere mei in C minor: X. Averte faciem tuam1:2225Miserere mei in C minor: XI. Cor mundum crea in me2:2326Miserere mei in C minor: XII. Redde mihi lætitiam1:3827Miserere mei in C minor: XIII. Docebo iniquos vias tuas1:1428Miserere mei in C minor: XIV. Libera me de sanguinibus2:1629Miserere mei in C minor: XV. Domine labia mea aperies1:0930Miserere mei in C minor: XVI. Quoniam si voluisses sacrificium1:1331Miserere mei in C minor: XVII. Sacrificium Deo spiritus1:4432Miserere mei in C minor: XVIII. Benigne fac Domine2:3033Miserere mei in C minor: XIX. Tunc acceptabis sacrificium2:19
Stats & PK
Percentile within all 23,672 published artists.Put Antonio Lotti head-to-head →
| Metric | Value | Percentile |
|---|---|---|
| Wikipedia language versions | 28 | 89th |
| Spotify monthly listeners | — | no data |
| Release groups in DB | 5 | 78.9th |
| Studio albums | 5 | 84.6th |
| Awards recorded | 0 | 0th |
| Timeline events | 8 | 84.1th |
| Recording span (years) | -259 | 2.3th |
| Genres | 6 | 91th |
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