Otto Nicolai |

Otto Nicolai

Mwa ma opera asanu a Nicolai, wazaka za Schumann ndi Mendelssohn, imodzi yokha imadziwika, The Merry Wives of Windsor, yomwe idadziwika kwambiri kwa theka lazaka - mpaka kumapeto kwa zaka za zana la XNUMX, Verdi's Falstaff isanawonekere, yomwe. adagwiritsa ntchito chiwembu cha sewero lomwelo la Shakespeare.

Otto Nicolai, yemwe anabadwa pa June 9, 1810 ku likulu la East Prussia, Königsberg, anali ndi moyo waufupi koma wokangalika. Bambo, wopeka wodziwika pang'ono, adayesa kuzindikira zolinga zake zazikulu ndikupangitsa mwana kukhala wopusa kuchokera kwa mnyamata waluso. Maphunziro ozunzawa adapangitsa Otto kuyesa kangapo kuthawa kunyumba ya abambo ake, zomwe zidatheka pomwe wachinyamatayo anali ndi zaka khumi ndi zisanu ndi chimodzi. Kuyambira 1827 wakhala Berlin, kuphunzira kuimba, kuimba limba ndi zikuchokera ndi wopeka wotchuka, mutu wa Singing Chapel KF Zelter. B. Klein anali mphunzitsi wake wina wa nyimbo mu 1828-1830. Monga membala wa Kwaya Kwaya Nicolai mu 1829 sanangotenga nawo mbali pamasewera otchuka a Passion a Bach molingana ndi Mateyu wochitidwa ndi Mendelssohn, komanso adayimba udindo wa Yesu.

Chaka chotsatira, buku loyamba la Nicolai linasindikizidwa. Atamaliza maphunziro ake, amapeza ntchito ngati ofesi ya kazembe wa Prussia ku Rome ndikuchoka ku Berlin. Ku Roma, adaphunzira ntchito za ambuye akale a ku Italy, makamaka Palestrina, anapitiriza maphunziro ake akulemba ndi G. Baini (1835) ndipo adatchuka ku likulu la Italy monga woimba piyano ndi mphunzitsi wa piyano. Mu 1835, analemba nyimbo za imfa ya Bellini, ndipo chotsatira - imfa ya woimba wotchuka Maria Malibran.

Pafupifupi zaka khumi kukhala ku Italy kunasokonezedwa pang'ono ndi ntchito ngati kondakitala ndi mphunzitsi woimba ku Vienna Court Opera (1837-1838). Kubwerera ku Italy, Nicolai anayamba kugwira ntchito pa zisudzo ku Italy librettos (mmodzi wa iwo poyamba ankafuna kuti Verdi), zomwe zimasonyeza chikoka mosakayikira za oimba otchuka kwambiri nthawi imeneyo - Bellini ndi Donizetti. Kwa zaka zitatu (1839-1841), ma opera anayi onse a Nicolai adachitidwa m'mizinda yosiyanasiyana ya Italy, ndipo The Templar, yochokera ku buku la Ivanhoe la Walter Scott, yakhala yotchuka kwa zaka zosachepera khumi: yakhala ikuchitikira ku Naples, Vienna. ndi Berlin, Barcelona ndi Lisbon, Budapest ndi Bucharest, Petersburg ndi Copenhagen, Mexico City ndi Buenos Aires.

Nicolai amathera zaka za m'ma 1840 ku Vienna. Akupanga mtundu watsopano wa imodzi mwa zisudzo zake zaku Italy zomwe zidamasuliridwa m'Chijeremani. Kuphatikiza pakuchita zochitika mu Khoti Lalikulu la Khoti, Nicolai akupezanso kutchuka monga wokonzekera ma concerts a philharmonic, momwe, pansi pa utsogoleri wake, makamaka, Beethoven's Ninth Symphony ikuchitika. Mu 1848 anasamukira ku Berlin, ntchito ngati kondakitala wa Court Opera ndi Dome Cathedral. Pa Marichi 9, 1849, woimbayo adayambitsa masewero ake abwino kwambiri, The Merry Wives of Windsor.

Patapita miyezi iwiri, pa May 11, 1849, Nicolai anamwalira ku Berlin.

A. Koenigsberg