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Antonio Cartellieri
La celebre Natività del Redentore
Katerina Beranova · Andreas Karasiak · Marco Buhrmester · Chorus Musicus Köln
Antonio Cartellieri (1772—1807), ein heute gänzlich vergessener Komponist, trägt zwar einen italienischen Namen, hat aber sein nur 35 Jahre währendes Leben ausschließlich im deutschen Sprachraum zugebracht: In Danzig geboren, gelangt er über Berlin in den neunziger Jahren des 18. Jahrhunderts nach Wien, wo er seit 1798 als „Singmeister und Violinspieler“, seit 1800 als Zweiter Kapellmeister des Fürsten Lobkowitz amtiert. Das Weihnachtsoratorium „La celebre Natività del Redentore“ („Die berühmte Geburt des Erlösers“) wurde 1806 im Prager Nationaltheater uraufgeführt.
Antonio Cartellieri (1772—1807), a composer who is completely forgotten nowadays, has an Italian name, but spent his short life of just 35 years in German-speaking countries exclusively. Born in Danzig, he came to Vienna via Berlin during the 1790s where he was appointed “song master and violin player” in 1798, and worked as Second Concertmaster for Prince Lobkowitz from 1800 onwards. When Ludwig van Beethoven played his Piano Concerto No. 1 with the prince’s orchestra, the other works in the programme consisted of a symphony and an oratorio by Cartellieri. The Christmas oratorio “La celebre Natività des Redentore” (“The Famous Birth of our Saviour”) was first performed at the Prague national theatre in 1806 and can be experienced again for the first time now – thanks to Christoph Spering and his orchestra. The hand-written score of the work from the Austrian national library was used for this recording, which follows Christoph Spering’s successful re-discovery of the Passion oratorio by Antonio Salieri (Capriccio 60 100).
