Otto Nicolai |

Otto Nicolai

Daga cikin opera biyar na Nicolai, wanda ya yi zamani da Schumann da Mendelssohn, daya ne kawai aka sani, The Merry Wives of Windsor, wanda ya shahara sosai tsawon rabin karni - har zuwa karshen karni na XNUMX, kafin bayyanar Verdi's Falstaff, wanda yayi amfani da shirin wasan barkwanci na Shakespeare.

Otto Nicolai, wanda aka haife shi a ranar 9 ga Yuni, 1810 a babban birnin Gabashin Prussia, Königsberg, ya yi rayuwa gajere amma mai aiki. Uban, wanda ba a san shi ba, mawaƙi ne, ya yi ƙoƙari ya fahimci tsare-tsarensa masu ban sha'awa kuma ya sa yaro ya zama abin ban mamaki daga yaro mai hazaka. Darussan azaba sun sa Otto ya yi ƙoƙari da yawa don tserewa daga gidan mahaifinsa, wanda a ƙarshe ya yi nasara lokacin da matashin yana da shekaru goma sha shida. Tun 1827 ya zauna a Berlin, yana nazarin rera waƙa, yana wasa da gabobin jiki da abun da ke ciki tare da shahararren mawaki, shugaban Singing Chapel KF Zelter. B. Klein shi ne sauran malamin sa a cikin 1828-1830. A matsayinsa na memba na Choir Choir Nicolai a 1829 ba kawai ya shiga cikin shahararren wasan kwaikwayon Bach's Passion ba bisa ga Matta wanda Mendelssohn ya gudanar, amma kuma ya rera matsayin Yesu.

A shekara ta gaba, an buga aikin farko na Nicolai. Bayan kammala karatunsa, ya sami aiki a matsayin mai kula da ofishin jakadancin Prussian a Roma kuma ya bar Berlin. A Roma, ya yi nazarin ayyukan tsofaffin malaman Italiya, musamman Palestrina, ya ci gaba da karatunsa tare da G. Baini (1835) kuma ya yi suna a babban birnin Italiya a matsayin malamin piano da piano. A 1835, ya rubuta kiɗa don mutuwar Bellini, kuma na gaba - don mutuwar sanannen mawaƙa Maria Malibran.

Kusan zama na tsawon shekaru goma a Italiya ya ɗan katse shi ta hanyar aiki a matsayin jagora da malamin waƙa a Opera Court Opera (1837-1838). Komawa Italiya, Nicolai ya fara aiki a kan operas zuwa Italiyanci liberttos (ɗaya daga cikinsu an yi niyya ne don Verdi), wanda ya nuna tasirin da ya fi shahara a wancan lokacin - Bellini da Donizetti. Shekaru uku (1839-1841), duk operas 4 na Nicolai an shirya su a birane daban-daban na Italiya, kuma The Templar, bisa ga littafin Walter Scott na Ivanhoe, ya shahara aƙalla shekaru goma: an shirya shi a Naples, Vienna. da Berlin, Barcelona da Lisbon, Budapest da Bucharest, Petersburg da Copenhagen, Mexico City da Buenos Aires.

Nicolai yana ciyar da 1840s a Vienna. Yana shirya wani sabon salo na ɗaya daga cikin wasan operas ɗinsa na Italiyanci wanda aka fassara zuwa Jamusanci. Baya ga gudanar da ayyuka a cikin kotun Chapel, Nicolai kuma yana samun shahara a matsayin mai shirya kide-kide na philharmonic, wanda a karkashin jagorancinsa, musamman, an yi wasan kwaikwayo na tara na Beethoven's Symphony. A 1848 ya koma Berlin, ya yi aiki a matsayin shugaba na Kotun Opera da Dome Cathedral. A ranar 9 ga Maris, 1849, mawaƙin ya gudanar da farkon wasan opera ɗinsa mai suna The Merry Wives of Windsor.

Bayan watanni biyu, ranar 11 ga Mayu, 1849, Nicolai ya mutu a Berlin.

A. Koenigsberg