Badia, Carlo Agostino

Badia, Carlo Agostino, Italian composer; b. probably in Venice, 1672; d. Vienna, Sept. 23, 1738. His first known work was his oratorio La sete di Cristo in croce (Innsbruck, 1691); soon thereafter he was made a court composer at Innsbruck. In 1694 he was called to Vienna, where he became Musik-Compositeur of the Imperial Court, a post he held for the rest of his life. His first wife was Anna Maria Elisabetta Nonetti, a prominent singer at the Viennese court (d. 1726). Badia was an important composer in his day, producing some 25 works for the stage and about 40 oratorios.

Works

DRAMATIC: La Ninfa Apollo (1692); Amor che vince lo sdegno, ovvero Olimpia placata (Rome, Carnival 1692); La Rosaura ovvero Amore figlio della gratitudine (Innsbruck, 1692); L’Amazone corsara, ovvero L’Alvilda, regina de’ Goti (Innsbruck, 1692); Bacco, vincitore dell’India (Vienna, Carnival 1697); La pace tra i numi discordi nella rovina di Troia (Vienna, May 21, 1697); L’idea del felice governo (Vienna, June 9, 1698); Lo squittinio dell’eroe (Vienna, July 26, 1698); Imeneo trionfante (Vienna, Feb. 28, 1699); II Narciso (Vienna, June 9, 1699); II commun giubilo del mondo (Vienna, July 26, 1699); Cupido fuggitivo da Venere e ritrovato a’ piedi della Sacra Reale Maestà d’Amalia (Vienna, Carnival 1700); Le gare dei beni (Vienna, Feb. 21, 1700); Diana rappacificata con Venere e con Amore (Vienna, April 21, 1700); La costanza d’Ulisse (Vienna, June 9, 1700); L’amore vuoi somiglianzà (Vienna, Jan. 7, 1702); L’Arianna (Vienna, Feb. 21, 1702); II Telemacco, ovvero II valore coronato (Vienna, March 19, 1702); La concordia della Virtù e della Fortuna (Vienna, April 21, 1702); Enea negli Elisi (Vienna, July 26, 1702); La Psiche (Vienna, Feb. 21, 1703); Napoli ritornata ai Romani (Vienna, Oct. 1, 1707); Èrcole, vincitore di Gerione (Vienna, Nov. 4, 1708); Gli amori di Circe con Ulisse (Dresden, June 20, 1709); II bel genio dell’Austria ed il Fato (Vienna, Nov. 1723).

—Nicolas Slonimsky/Laura Kuhn/Dennis McIntire