Antonenko Ekaterina

Baldassare Galuppi and Music for the Orthodox Liturgy

Abstract

Based on historic evidence and archive sources, this article aims to fi nd out if Baldassare Galuppi actually wrote complete music for the Orthodox liturgy during his stay in Russia in 1765–68. Apart from Galuppi’s unambiguous authorship of Слава и ныне. Единородный Сыне (“Glory and Now. O, Only-Begotten Son”), Херувимская (“Cherubim Song”) and Милость мира (“The Mercy of the World”) may also be attributed to him. Analysis of those manuscripts of the “Glory and Now. O, Only-Begotten Son” in archives of Moscow, Kiev, Berlin and Vienna which precede the fi rst publication by Bortnyansky (in 1818) of this piece by Galuppi, allowed us to trace Bortnyansky’s “corrections”; these appeared to be insignifi cant. We come to the conclusion that Galuppi’s music for the Orthodox liturgy did exist. This music may be discovered among anonymous pieces for the liturgy, which are often found at the beginning of hand-written singing books of the late 18th century.

Keywords

Galuppi, Bortnyansky, Russian church music, Orthodox Liturgy, choral music

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Information about the author

Antonenko Ekaterina

Academic Degree: Candidate of Sciences* in Art Criticism;
Place of work: Moscow State Tchaikovsky Conservatoire; 13 Bol’shaia Nikitskaia Str., Moscow, 125009, Russian Federation;
Email: antonenko@mosconsv.ru.

*According to the International Standard Classification of Education (ISCED) 2011, the degree of Candidate of Sciences (Cand.Sc.) belongs to ISCED level 8 — "doctoral or equivalent", together with PhD, DPhil, D.Lit, D.Sc, LL.D, Doctorate or similar.