Bernardino Ottani

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Bernardo Ottani (Bologna , 8 September 1736 - Turin , 26 April 1827 ) was an Italian composer, brother of the tenor Gaetano Ottani. Bernardo (or Bernardino) Ottani completed his first studies under the guidance of Father Martini , with whom he will remain linked throughout his life by a deep friendship. In 1758 , at the age of 22, he became chapel master of the church of San Giovanni in Monte in his native Bologna and three years later of that of Santa Lucia . His first composition, the cantata The Triumph of Glory , was written around 1760 . Then in 1765 he entered as a member of the Philharmonic Academy of Bologna , where in 1774 he was appointed Prince , ie director of the Academy. In 1766 he was continually traveling around northern Italy : first in Genoa to represent an opera (still unknown and lost) and then in Venice to revise some arias of the opera Il cavaliere per amore by Niccolò Piccinni . In 1769 he went to Dresden to perform two of his works, The ridiculous virtuosas and The industrious love . On his return to Italy he stopped in Munich to represent the opera Il maestro . When Christoph Willibald Gluck in 1777 represented the Alceste at the Teatro Comunale in Bologna , Ottani participated as first master on the harpsichord . Between 1777 and 1778 he staged his operas in Turin , Rome , Naples , Florence and Venice , which contributed to his fame. In 1779 he settled permanently in Turin, where he assumed the position of director of the Teatro Regio and a lit

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