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27-620: Traetta was born in Bitonto , a town near Bari in the Apulia region of Italy . He was a student of a composer, singer, and teacher Nicola Porpora in Naples, and found early success with his opera Il Farnace in 1751. Around this time, he came into contact with Niccolò Jommelli . Traetta found regular commissions throughout Italy, before accepting a post as court composer at Parma in 1759. The ruler of Parma, Philip, Duke of Parma had married

54-767: A Roman municipium , preserving its former laws and self-government and venerating its divine protectress, whom the Romans identified by interpretatio romana as Minerva ; the site sacred to her is occupied by the Church of San Pietro in Vincoli. As a city of the Late Roman Empire, Bitonto figures in the Liber Colonis of Frontinus, in the Antonine Itinerary and other Imperial itineraries, and

81-670: A fairly successful composer. Tommaso Traetta died in April of 1779, in Venice . Bitonto Bitonto ( Italian: [biˈtonto] ; Bitontino : Vetònde ) is a comune in the Metropolitan City of Bari , in the Italian region of Apulia . It lies to the west of Bari . It is nicknamed the "City of Olives", due to the numerous olive groves surrounding the city. Bitonto lies approximately 11 kilometres (7 mi) to

108-542: A political refugee to the United States, where he had a successful musical career as a composer and one of the founders of music conservatories in Boston (1801), New York (1812), and Philadelphia (1828). Filippo Traetta was born in Venice , Republic of Venice , on January 8, 1777. He was the son of opera composer Tommaso Traetta and Elizabeth Sund from Russian Finland. The couple met at St. Petersburg when Tommaso

135-650: A popular tourist destination. It has hosted the Beat Onto Jazz Festival since 2001. Bitonto is not directly connected to the Italian national railway system ( FS ). However, it is serviced by an electric rail line, the Bari–Barletta , operated privately by Ferrotramviaria , and counts two stations: Bitonto and Bitonto Santi Medici . Bitonto is 8 kilometres (5 miles) away from the international Karol Wojtyła Airport of Bari . Around Bitonto, there

162-604: A vessel that belonged to the Derby family of Salem, Massachusetts , on July 3, 1800. Now known as Philip Trajetta , he settled in Boston, Massachusetts. There he and two partners, François Delochaire Mallet of France and Gottlieb Graupner of Germany, announced in an advertisement in the Boston Gazette on November 24, 1800, the founding of a music academy called the American Conservatorio of Boston. It

189-542: Is a ring road resembling a near perfect circle, from which only the easternmost portion is missing [1] . The local association football club is the U.S. Bitonto , and its home ground is the Città degli Ulivi Stadium . Bitonto is twinned with: Philip Trajetta Philip Trajetta (Filippo Traetta) (January 8, 1777 – January 9, 1854) was an Republic of Venice -born American composer and music teacher. The son of Italian composer Tommaso Traetta , in 1800 he moved as

216-766: The Sturm und Drang movement to flourish a few years later, further North. The first fruit of this Francophilia was the opera Traetta wrote in 1759. Ippolito ed Aricia owes a lot to Rameau's great tragédie lyrique of 1733, Hippolyte et Aricie . But Traetta's is no mere translation of Rameau. Carlo Innocenzo Frugoni , Traetta's librettist in Parma, completely reworked the original French version by abbé Pellegrin, which itself had been based on Racine , in its turn stemming ultimately from ancient Greek roots–the Hippolytus of Euripides . Frugoni kept certain key French elements:

243-682: The Tabula Peutingeriana , a post where fresh horses were to be had for travellers on the Via Traiana for Brundisium . The foundations of a Paleochristian basilica came to light in excavations beneath the cathedral's crypt, but no written evidence survives of an established diocese in the Early Middle Ages . Though there is no evidence that a Lombard gastaldo had his seat at Bitonto, Lombard customs and law insinuated themselves deeply in local social fabric. During

270-905: The Treaty of Ghent , signed on December 24, 1814, that concluded the War of 1812 . He conducted its premiere in New York on February 21, 1815. In the first half of the 1820s, Trajetta settled in Philadelphia , which became his permanent home. By 1828, he founded the American Conservatory in Philadelphia. There he composed two oratorios, Jerusalem in Affliction and Daughter of Zion , which had their premieres in Philadelphia in 1828 and 1829 respectively. A comprehensive history of

297-801: The War of Polish Succession , the Spanish army under Charles of Bourbon and the Duke of Montemar defeated the Austrians under Giuseppe Antonio, Prince of Belmonte at the Battle of Bitonto , thus securing possession of the Kingdom of Naples for the Bourbons . On September 6, 1928 the village of the Holy Spirit, the only access to the coast and the subject of border disputes between the two cities since

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324-609: The 9th century, Bitonto successfully withstood a Saracen raid, in which the besiegers' leader was killed beneath the city's walls Bitonto took part in the revolt of Melus of Bari in 1009. In the Middle Ages Bitonto was a fief of several baronial families, before it passed permanently in the thirteenth century to the Acquaviva, who took their name from their stronghold at Acquaviva delle Fonti : The Acquaviva were later dukes of Atri, and their minor signory of Bitonto

351-455: The Duke of Bourbon-Parma , that Traetta ran into some fresh air from France. In Parma in 1759, he found several noteworthy collaborators, and he was fortunate in finding that the man in charge of opera there was a highly cultivated Paris-trained Frenchman, Guillaume du Tillot , who had the complete cultural portfolio among all his other responsibilities as Don Felipe's First Minister. To judge from

378-742: The Great performed in a theatre close to her apartments inside of the Winter Palace itself, created by the Italian architect Francesco Bartolomeo Rastrelli , architect of many buildings in Saint Petersburg, including the Hermitage . In 1783, sometime after Traetta's departure, she ordered it to be closed and a new one built. Traetta departed Saint Petersburg in 1775, and resumed the opera composer's life, even writing two works for London: Germondo in 1776 and Telemaco in 1777. According to

405-559: The Thirteenth century, it passed to the municipality of Bari. The territory stolen had a surface area of about 16 square kilometers. The city includes a medieval burg and a modern area. The main landmarks include: Bitonto is well known for its production of extra virgin olive oil , which is exported to America and elsewhere in Europe. The city also produces wine, beer, cereals, almonds, and textiles. Recently, Bitonto has also become

432-537: The Traetta Association in Bitonto, he had left Saint Petersburg under threat of assassination by the empress—it seems he was enraged that she insisted on a happy ending for Antigona, and in revenge put music for Polish independence into the final chaconne. He left in time, but his librettist was poisoned. Traetta was shortly married and had a son, Filippo Traetta , who in 1800 moved to America and became

459-414: The art of the fugue and composition. He was next sent to Naples to study with composer Niccolò Piccinni . In 1799, Traetta was involved in a failed revolution against King Ferdinand IV of Naples . He was arrested for authoring several patriotic, anti-monarchy hymns. He served eight months in prison before he was given a German passport and smuggled into the United States, arriving aboard Mount Vernon ,

486-527: The city was named after Botone, an Illyrian king. Its first city wall can be dated to the fifth to fourth centuries BC; traces remain in the foundations of the Norman walling. Similarities of coinage suggest that Bitonto was under the hegemony of Spartan Tarentum , but bearing the numismatic legend BITONTINON . Later, having been a Roman ally in the Samnite Wars , the civitas Butuntinenses became

513-402: The eldest daughter of Louis XV . In Parma, there was a craving for all things French and the splendor of Versailles. It was in Parma that Traetta's operas first moved in new directions. As a result, Antigona , his 1772 opera for Saint Petersburg, was amongst his most forward-looking, the closest he approached the famous reform ideals usually associated with Gluck . It was at the court of

540-501: The first opera composed in the United States, though it was never staged. In the following two decades he divided his time between New York and Charleston. He relocated to New York City about 1809 and by 1812 founded the American Conservatorio of New York. Advertisements for the Conservatorio's concerts at its home on Fulton Street appeared in local newspapers until 1817. He composed a cantata, Jubilate, Peace , to celebrate

567-475: The five-act structure as against the customary three; the occasional opportunities for French-style spectacle and effects and, in particular, the dances and divertissements that end each of those five acts; and more elaborate use of the chorus than, for instance, in Hasse and Graun and Jommelli . Through the following decade, the 1760s, Tommaso Traetta composed music (including opera seria ) unceasingly. There

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594-432: The general stylistic influence in terms of grand scenic effects, and from some specific musical borrowings, Traetta had access in Parma to copies and reports of Rameau's operas. To their influence, Traetta added some ingredients of his own, especially a feeling for dramatic colour, in the shape of his melodies and his use of the orchestra. The result was a combination of Italian, French, and German elements, which even expected

621-626: The west of the city of Bari , near the coast of the Adriatic Sea . The bordering municipalities are Bari , Bitetto , Palo del Colle , Altamura , Toritto , Ruvo di Puglia , Terlizzi , and Giovinazzo . The hamlets ( frazioni ) are Mariotto and Palombaio. The city was founded by the Peucetii , and its inhabitants referred to by the Greek settlers of the region as Butontinoi , an ethnonym of uncertain derivation. According to one tradition,

648-486: Was a clutch of comedies as well, and sacred music composed to imperial order. For Traetta served from 1768 to 1775 as music director for Catherine the Great of Russia, to which he moved. Still, opera seria was what her imperial majesty commanded. Traetta's first operas for Catherine the Great seem to have been largely revivals and revisions of his earlier works. In 1772 came Antigona , which reached areas of expression he had not explored before. The Court Opera of Catherine

675-491: Was raised to a marquisate in 1464 by the King of Naples, Ferrante di Aragona in favour of Giovanni Antonio Acquaviva; on his premature death it passed to his brother, the successful and cultivated condottiero Andrea Matteo Acquaviva , who exchanged it in 1487 for the marquessate of Ugento, which he subsequently lost. In 1552 the citizens paid for the city's freedom the considerable sum of 66,000  ducats . In 1734, during

702-460: Was serving at the invitation of Catherine II of Russia as singing instructor and musical director of the opera there. Upon the death of his father, Filippo was about three years of age, placing Elizabeth in charge of his education in Venice. He attended a Jesuit school until the age of 13 and then studied with music teachers Fedele Fenaroli and Salvatore Perillo , from whom he learned counterpoint,

729-541: Was the first such institution in the United States and lasted just two years. Two of his orchestral works were performed in Boston in that year, a sinfonia and a violin concerto. There he also wrote some of his early works, including "Washington's Dead March", a patriotic work marking the death of George Washington in December 1799, which remained popular for decades. In the same year he moved to New York, where he completed The Venetian Maskers , which can be described as

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