Canti di Terra

Cantata for Soprano, 2 Violins & Basso Continuo

Agostino Steffani
(1654 - 1728)

Edited by Alejandro Garri

GE 239

Volume 52
Full Score & 3 Parts

Table of Contents
Page
Notes

N1

Preludio

N2

Recitativo: Fileno, idolo mio

N3

Aria: Vieni, o sol

N4

Aria: Or dell'alba i vaghi rai

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N5

Aria: Solo indarno il mio cor

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Durata: ~6:00

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Agostino Steffani was born 1654, in Castelfranco (near Padua) and died on 12, February,
1728, in Frankfurt am Main. Between the ages of 10 and 13, he sang boy soprano at Il Santo
in Padua, and may have studied music with dalla Tavola and Pallavicino. Under the
sponsorship of Elector Ferdinand Maria of Bavaria, he studied music in Munich with Johann
K. Kerll and later with Ercole Bernabei in Rome. In 1674, he became court organist in
Munich, adding the title of Kappellmeister seven years later. Around 1675, he published his
first compositions, a collection of Vesper settings for double chorus. Steffani's Marco Aurelio,
the first of five operas he composed for the Bavarian Court, was given in Munich in 1681. At
the age of 34, Steffani moved to Hanover to take charge of the Italian opera, though he had
already been a Catholic priest for eight years. It was in Hanover that he first garnered
attention for his talents as a diplomat. From about 1696 to 1706, Steffani worked primarily as
an ambassador in Brussels, Hanover and Dsseldorf, and secondarily as a composer (mostly of
chamber duets). Early in the 18th Century, Steffani played an important role in the
government of Dsseldorf and was a curator for the University of Heidelberg. In 1706, he was
elevated to Bishop of Spiga, later appointed by the Pope as Apostolic Vicar to Northern
Germany, in which capacity he served until his death while struggling with church's financial
hardship in Frankfurt am Main. He is buried in the south chapel of the Cathedral in Frankfurt.
The manuscript of Fileno, idol mio is housed in Modena at the Biblioteca Estense (Mus. F.
1102, ff. 31-37). Number four in a collection of six scherzi in the personal library of Duke
Francesco II d'Este (1660-1694), this piece was written during a time of diplomatic contacts
between Hanover and Modena. The poet is unknown. Steffani demonstrates a great flexibility
of form, working with a Corellian preludio, a secco recitative with strong melodic elements,
and three through-composed arias all in a different form. His primary techniques for the
strings, which do not appear in the middle aria, are imitation and echo. The canon at the
octave at the beginning of N 4 and the three-part imitation of N 5 show Steffani at the height
of his contrapuntal skill.
The bass was not figured in this cantata, nor were the divisions into distinct movements clearly
delineated. Nevertheless, in this edition, the right hand of the harpsichord has been left blank
for use by a modern continuo player, and the movements were defined and named. I also
modernized the clef of the vocal part from C clef to G clef.
Dr. Alejandro Garri, Editor
Frankfurt am Main, 4, September, 2005

Fileno, idolo mio

Cantata for Soprano, 2 Violins & Basso continuo
Modena, before 1694

Agostino Steffani
(1654 - 1728)

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