Kerzelli (Russian: ''Керцелли'', ''Керцель'' or ''Керцеллий''; also spelled ''Cherzelli'', ''Kerzelly'', ''Kertsel'', ''Kercel'', ''Kerzel'', or ''Kerzell'') is the surname of a large family of musicians of
Italian
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,
Czech
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or
Austria
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n origin, who settled in Russia in the 18th century. They were active in Moscow in the late eighteenth century and known for their contributions to the Russian musical stage.
*Iosif Kerzelli or Iohann (also known as I. B. Kerzelli) was a composer and journalist working for the magazine «Музыкальные увеселения» ("Muzykalye uveseleniya" –"The Musical Amusements", 1774-1775). His trios, choruses, dances etc. were printed there. In 1773 he started a musical college in Moscow, where his sons taught.
*Franz Iosifovich Kerzelli was a cellist, Kapellmeister and composer of a cello concerto, a son of Iosif Kerzelli. He ran a series of concerts with symphony and ''rogovoi'' (horn) orchestras until the middle of the 1790s.
*Ivan Kerzelli or Iohann Kerzelly (also known as I. I. Kerzelli, Iosif Iosifovich Kerzelli, or Iosif Kertsel, Russian: Иван Керцелли, Иосиф Иосифович Керцелли, И. И. Керцелли, or Иосиф Керцель) was a conductor in 18th-century Imperial Russia. (see main article)
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Mikhail Franzevich Kerzelli (born c1740
r 1750, or 1755 Vienna – died end of December 1818, Moscow) was a pianist, violinist, teacher and composer of string quartets, violin duets, orchestral and liturgical compositions. (see main article)
*Ivan Franzevich Kerzelli (born c1760
r 1765 died May 26 (OS May 14) 1820) was a composer and the Kapellmeister of
Petrovsky Theatre in
Moscow
Moscow is the Capital city, capital and List of cities and towns in Russia by population, largest city of Russia, standing on the Moskva (river), Moskva River in Central Russia. It has a population estimated at over 13 million residents with ...
. He wrote comic operas to the following libretti by
Vasily Levshin
Vasily Alekseyevich Lyovshin (; July 17, 1746 – August 10, 1826) was a Russian writer.
Born in Smolensk, he wrote on agricultural and economic subjects and was close to Nikolay Novikov's circle.
Lyovshin's utopian novel ''Noveysheye Рuteshest ...
:
**''Svad'ba gospodina Voldyreva'' (''Свадьба господина Волдырева – The Wedding of Mr Voldyrev''), one-act opera 1793 Moscow)
**''Korol na okhote'' (''Король на охоте – The King on the Hunting'', three-act opera, 1794
Moscow
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)
**''Mnimye vdovtsy'' (''Мнимые вдовцы – The False Widowers''), three-act opera, 1794
Moscow
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)
**''Svoya nosha ne tyanet'' (''Своя ноша не тянет – The Burden Is Not Heavy if It Is Yours, two-act opera'', probably together with
Vasily Pashkevich
Vasily Alexeyevich Pashkevich also Paskevich () (c. 1742, probably Ukraine – March 20, 1797 in St. Petersburg) was a Russian composer, singer, violinist and teacher of Ukrainian origin who lived during the time of Catherine the Great.
Bi ...
, 1794
Moscow
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)
**''Molodye poskoreye starych mogut obmanut ('' Молодые поскорее старых могут обманывать – The Young Can Deceive Better Than Old'' ), one-act opera (1796
Litvinovo)
*Anton Kerzelli, was a sheet music seller who had a music shop in Moscow
*Lev Kerzelli, was a cellist, and a pupil of
Bernhard Romberg
Bernhard Heinrich Romberg (November 13, 1767 – August 13, 1841) was a German cellist and composer.
Life
Romberg was born in Dinklage. His father, Anton Romberg, played the bassoon and cello and gave Bernhard his first cello lessons. He f ...
(1761-1841).
Bibliography
*Энциклопедический словарь Брокгауза и Ефрона (1890—1907).
*Энциклопедический музыкальный словарь, Сост. Б. Штейнпресс и И. Ямпольский, Москва, 1966
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