CHIESA
Title
CHIESA
Description
CHIESA, (Melchiorre?) (b Milan 1716–d Milan 1783), [Motetti] No 2: Caelo tonanti, I/C/8/9
D-Dl
Mus. 3284-E-1
Composer
CHIESA
Uniform Composer
CHIESA, (Melchiorre?) (b Milan 1716–d Milan 1783)
Title (Catalogo)
[Motetti] No 2: Caelo tonanti
Location (1765)
Schranck I; Fach 8; Lage 9
SFL_combination
I/C/8/9
Scoring (1765)
‘a Contralto Solo con stromti’
Materials (1765)
Partitura
Title Partitura
Motetto | Alto Solo Con Sinfonia
Uniform Title
Motets
RISM Links
Remarks
Bound score copy. A Neapolitan source.
Title page: No: 1 | Motetto | Alto Solo Con Sinfonia | Del Sigr. Melchior Chiesa. Scored for vn. 1,2; va.; Alto solo; b.c. (unfigured).
Note that the Dresden examples works by the following composers have the same provenance: Canta (Giovanni Cantù): Kyrie e Gloria (Mus. 4975-D-1,2); Chiesa (Melchiorre?): Gloria from Gloria e Credo (Mus. 3284-E-1); Chiesa, Melchiorre: Caelo tonanti [Motetti] Nr. 2 (Mus. 3284-E-1); Monzino (Monza, Carlo Ignazio?): Kyrie e Gloria (Mus. 2768-D-1); Piazzino: [Messe] Nr. 2 Kyrie, Gloria, Credo (Mus. 2875-D-1; Mus. 2875-D-2).
The article ‘Chiesa, Melchiorre’ in GMO (author not named) reports that in Milan (1770), Charles Burney wrote: ‘Chiesa and Monza seem and are said to be the two best composers for the stage here at present’. RISM attributed this work to Melchiore Chiesa
Title page: No: 1 | Motetto | Alto Solo Con Sinfonia | Del Sigr. Melchior Chiesa. Scored for vn. 1,2; va.; Alto solo; b.c. (unfigured).
Note that the Dresden examples works by the following composers have the same provenance: Canta (Giovanni Cantù): Kyrie e Gloria (Mus. 4975-D-1,2); Chiesa (Melchiorre?): Gloria from Gloria e Credo (Mus. 3284-E-1); Chiesa, Melchiorre: Caelo tonanti [Motetti] Nr. 2 (Mus. 3284-E-1); Monzino (Monza, Carlo Ignazio?): Kyrie e Gloria (Mus. 2768-D-1); Piazzino: [Messe] Nr. 2 Kyrie, Gloria, Credo (Mus. 2875-D-1; Mus. 2875-D-2).
The article ‘Chiesa, Melchiorre’ in GMO (author not named) reports that in Milan (1770), Charles Burney wrote: ‘Chiesa and Monza seem and are said to be the two best composers for the stage here at present’. RISM attributed this work to Melchiore Chiesa
Additional
A 59
Eitner
V. 2 (1900), 423–4: Chiesa, Melchiore [...] Coelo tonati, Motetto à Alto solo c. strom. P. Ms. 57 [...][Dresd. Mus.]
SLB Card Catalog
Chiesa, Melchiore: Motetto Alto solo [‘Coelo tonanto’ sic!] con sinfonia [2 Vl., Vla., B.]. Part. quer-4to. Mus.Mscr.
Status
Score copy of Caelo tonanti attributed to ‘Sigr. Melchior Chiesa’ (Mus. 3284-E-1) held by SLUB.
Sort Order
01-08-09
Collection
Citation
“CHIESA,” Catalogue of the Music Collection of the Dresden Catholic Court Church 1765, accessed July 28, 2024, http://omeka.cloud.unimelb.edu.au/hofkirchecatalogo1765/items/show/3623.