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SARTI, GIUSEPPE (17291802)

This article appears in Volume V24, Page 224 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: SAR-SCY
SARTI, GIUSEPPE (17291802) , Italian composer, was born at Faenza on the 28th of December 1729. He was educated by Padre
Martini
 , and appointed organist of the
cathedral
  of Faenza before the completion of his nineteenth year. Resigning his appointment in 1750, Sarti devoted himself to the study of dramatic music, becoming director of the Faenza theatre in 1752. In 1751 he produced his first opera, Pompeo, with
great
  success. His next works, Il Re Pastore, Medonte, Demofoonte and L'Olimpiade, assured him so brilliant a reputation that in 1753 King Frederick V. of Denmark invited him to
Copenhagen
 , with the appointments of Hofkapellmeister and director of the opera. Here he produced his Ciro riconsosciuto. In 1765 he travelled to Italy to engage some new singers; meanwhile the death of King Frederick put an end for the time to his engagement. In 1769 he went to London, where he could only contrive to exist by giving music lessons. In 1770 he obtained a post in Venice as music master at the Conservatorio dell' Ospedaletto. In 1779 he was elected maestro di cappella at the
cathedral
  of
Milan
 , where he remained until 1784. Here he exercised his true vocationcomposing, in addition to at least twenty of his most successful operas, a vast quantity of sacred music for the cathedral, and educating a number of clever pupils, the most distinguished of whom was
Cherubini
 . In 1784 Sarti was invited by the empress Catherine II. to St
Petersburg
 . On his way thither he stopped at Vienna, where the emperor Joseph II. received him with marked favour, and where he made the acquaintance of Mozart. He reached St
Petersburg
  in 1785, and at once took the direction of the opera, for which he composed many new pieces, besides some very striking sacred music, including a Te Deum for the victory of Ochakov, in which he introduced the firing of real cannon. He remained in
Russia
  until 18o1, when his
health
  was so broken that he solicited permission to return. The emperor Alexander dismissed him in 1802 with a liberal pension; letters of
nobility
  had been granted to him by the empress Catherine. His most successful operas in
Russia
  were Armida and Olega, for the latter of which the empress herself wrote the libretto. Sarti died at Berlin on the 28th of July 1802.
Sarti's opera I Due Litiganti has been immortalized by Mozart, who introduced an air from it into the supper scene in Don Giovanni. It should be noted that Mozart's- Nozze di Figaro owed a
great
  deal to the influence of this opera, which was performed in Vienna in 1784. The admirable libretto by Da Ponte, author of the libretti of Figaro and Don Giovanni, shows similar situations, and the complicated finale of the first act served as a model to Mozart for the finale of the last act of Figaro.


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