12-557: Danzi or D'Anzi is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: Francesca Lebrun , née Danzi (1756 – 1791), 18th-century a German singer and composer Franz Danzi (Franz Ignaz Danzi) (1763 – 1826), German cellist, composer and conductor Danzi Quintet , a Dutch wind quintet Margarethe Danzi , née Marchand (1768 – 1800), German composer and soprano; wife of Franz Gianni Danzi (1940 – 2007), an Italian Roman Catholic Archbishop of
24-551: Is an opera buffa in two acts by Antonio Sacchini , first performed at the Teatro Valle in Rome during the Carnival in 1765. The libretto was by Niccolò Tassi . It was a popular opera at the time of its first performance: by the 1780s it had been staged over 20 times in such diverse cities as Rome and Warsaw. Sacchini's original setting is an intermezzo with four roles. There was
36-532: The King's Theatre . In 1780 the celebrated English artist Thomas Gainsborough painted her portrait. A celebrated coloratura soprano, she sang on major operatic and concert stages through Europe, including England, Germany and Italy, to great acclaim. The musician and writer C.F.D. Schubart noted that she could sing A, three octaves above middle C with "clarity and distinctness". Charles Burney wrote that when she and her husband performed divisions of thirds and sixths it
48-692: The Mannheim court opera for four years and was cast in the premier roles: Parthenia in Schweitzer 's Alceste (1775, Schlosstheater Schwetzingen ), and Anna in Holzbauer 's Günther von Schwarzburg (1777), a role composed specifically for her voice. At twenty-one, she travelled to London to sing four opera series by J. C. Bach and Sacchini. In 1778, she married the oboe virtuoso and composer Ludwig August Lebrun (1752–1790) from Mannheim. That summer, now known as Signora Lebrun, she toured Italy with Ludwig. At
60-465: The Territorial Prelature of Loreto Giovanni D'Anzi (1906, Milan – 1974), Italian songwriter Carmelo D'Anzi (born 1956, Messina), Italian-American football coach and player [REDACTED] Surname list This page lists people with the surname Danzi . If an internal link intending to refer to a specific person led you to this page, you may wish to change that link by adding
72-472: The age of 35. She was born and died in the same years as Mozart . Her daughters also became well-known. Rosine Lebrun (1783–1855) was a successful opera singer and actress and was a member of the Munich theatre company, 1801–1830. Sophie [Dülken] (1781–1863) became a well-known pianist and composer, and her daughters and granddaughters also became musicians. La contadina in corte La contadina in corte
84-732: The opening of the Teatro Alla Scala in Milan on 3 August 1778, Francesca Lebrun was the female lead in Antonio Salieri 's opera Europa riconosciuta . She created a sensation in 1779 in Paris at the Concert Spirituel through her ability to fit Italian words to instrumental parts of symphonies concertantes and sing them. The Lebruns lived in London from 1779 through 1781 while Francesca appeared at
96-461: The person's given name (s) to the link. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Danzi&oldid=1168163243 " Categories : Surnames Italian-language surnames Hidden categories: Articles with short description Short description is different from Wikidata All set index articles Francesca Lebrun Francesca Lebrun ( née Franziska Dorothea Danzi ; 24 March 1756 – 14 May 1791)
108-725: Was a celebrated German soprano associated with the court at Mannheim , as well as an accomplished composer of sonatas . As a singer, she was renowned for her vocal dexterity and was highly sought after by such notable composers as Anton Schweitzer , Ignaz Holzbauer , and Antonio Salieri to sing the lead roles in their most challenging operas. As a composer, her twelve sonatas for piano or harpsichord with violin accompaniment , six each in opus 1 and opus 2, were first published in London , England, in 1779–1781, with further editions in London, Paris , and several German centers. The opus 1 sonatas are available in commercial recordings. She
120-514: Was born Franziska Dorothea Danzi in Mannheim , Electoral Palatinate (present-day Germany), the eldest child of Italian-born cellist Innocenz Danzi and dancer Barbara Sidonia Margaretha Toeschi, the core of the elite elector Mannheim court performers in the late 1750s. Her two brothers, the cellist Franz Ignaz (1763–1826) and the violinist Johann Baptist, were successful composers. The violinist, composer and conductor Karl Joseph (Carlo Giuseppe) Toeschi
132-559: Was her maternal uncle. She made her first public appearance as a singer at the age of 16 and the following year was engaged by the Mannheim Opera. There seems to be some debate whether she first performed in Gassmann 's L'amore artigiano in May 1772, or Sacchini 's La contadina in corte , the role for which she earned the title of court musician ( virtuosa da camera ). She stayed with
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#1732891075270144-599: Was impossible to discover who was uppermost of the interval. Francesca's family flourished as well, she gave birth to her daughter Sophie while in London in June 1781, and daughter Rosine in 1783 in Munich . Francesca and Ludwig toured around Europe again in 1785, spending a season in Naples , then Berlin and London where Ludwig died in 1790. She performed only twice after his death and survived him by only five months, dying on 14 May 1791 at
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