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| • | Pietro, Cardinal Ottoboni, the Cardinal Ottoboni (1667–February 29 1740), was a member of the noble Venetian family and the grand-nephew of the Venetian Pope Alexander VIII(1689–1691). He is remembered especially as a great patron of music.
Cardinal Ottoboni, one of the great patrons of his generation, was housed in the Palazzo della Cancelleria in Rome, where he supported Arcangelo Corelli, the finest violinist of his generation, at his Monday night concerts called "academies", and where Corelli was introduced to Handel. When he died in 1713, Corelli left his estate, including his valuable pictures, to Cardinal Ottoboni, who distributed the sizable funds among Corelli's relations and erected Corelli's princely tomb in the Pantheon. Among his other protegés was Antonio Vivaldi and Antonio Caldara. He even wrote texts of cantatas for some of them. The young Sicilian architect Giovanni Battista Vaccarini also benefited from his concern.
When opera was banned in Rome, performances withdrew to Ottoboni's Cancelleria. His triumphal return to Venice in 1726 was celebrated with musical festivities that included a serenata Andromeda liberata, with arias contributed by various Venetian masters, including Vivaldi.
In 1735 he donated his Roman sculptures and other antiquities to the Capitoline Museums.
His music library was dispersed after his death, but the so-called "Manchester Concerto Part-books" have survived with sets of separate parts for 95 compositions, mostly concertos; the manuscript scores came into the possession of Charles Jennens, the librettist for Handelࢀ&#-2509; Messiah. The diverse contents of the concerto collection suggest that Ottoboniࢀ&#-2509; musicians acquired and performed music from artistic centres elsewhere (notably Venice and Bologna) as well as works composed in Rome.
In his ecclesiastical career, Ottoboni received the clerical tonsure and the minor orders, October 20 1689 and was created cardinal deacon in the consistory of November 7 1689 and received the red hat November 14. Cardinal Ottoboni was superintendent general of the affairs of the Apostolic See, and governor of the cities of Fermo and Tivoli, and of the territory of Capranica. H
Source: [wikipedia: pietro, cardinal ottoboni]
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