Bernardo Ottani (Bologna , 8 September 1736 - Turin , 26 April 1827 ) was an Italian composer, brother of the tenor Gaetano Ottani. Bernardo (or Bernardino) Ottani completed his first studies under the guidance of Father Martini , with whom he will remain linked throughout his life by a deep friendship. In 1758 , at the age of 22, he became chapel master of the church of San Giovanni in Monte in his native Bologna and three years later of that of Santa Lucia . His first composition, the cantata The Triumph of Glory , was written around 1760 . Then in 1765 he entered as a member of the Philharmonic Academy of Bologna , where in 1774 he was appointed Prince , ie director of the Academy. In 1766 he was continually traveling around northern Italy : first in Genoa to represent an opera (still unknown and lost) and then in Venice to revise some arias of the opera Il cavaliere per amore by Niccolò Piccinni . In 1769 he went to Dresden to perform two of his works, The ridiculous virtuosas and The industrious love . On his return to Italy he stopped in Munich to represent the opera Il maestro . When Christoph Willibald Gluck in 1777 represented the Alceste at the Teatro Comunale in Bologna , Ottani participated as first master on the harpsichord . Between 1777 and 1778 he staged his operas in Turin , Rome , Naples , Florence and Venice , which contributed to his fame. In 1779 he settled permanently in Turin, where he assumed the position of director of the Teatro Regio and a little later that of chapel master of the Cathedral . In 1798 with the Napoleonic occupation the Teatro Regio was closed and Ottani had to give up its place. For Napoleon's coronation as emperor he wrote some sacred compositions. A long tradition has seen in the composer a brother of Gaetano Ottani , opera singer and painter. However, the actual relationship between the two appears uncertain. Works 15 works by Ottani are known; the year and the city refer to the first performance. Love without malice ( playful drama , libretto by Pietro Chiari , 1768, Venice ) The ridiculous virtuosas (playful drama, libretto by Carlo Goldoni , 1769, Dresden ) The industrious love (playful drama, libretto by Gaetano Casori, 1769, Dresden ) The master ( comic opera , 1770, Munich ) Simplicity in love (playful drama, 1771, Udine ) The island of Calypso ( serious opera , 1776, Teatro Regio di Torino directed by Gaetano Pugnani with Giuseppe Aprile ) Cato in Utica (serious opera, libretto by Pietro Metastasio , 1777, San Carlo Theater in Naples with Giovanni Ansani ) Bernardino Ottani, The contemptuous abandoned, playful drama for music. To be represented in the Teatro delle Dame, in the carnival of the year 1778, dedicated to the illustrious lady, Mrs. Marchesa Maria Caterina Colligola Serlupi , Rome, Stamperia di Ottavio Puccinelli, 1778, SBN IT \ ICCU \ MUS \ 0284524 . The amorous industries (playful drama, libretto by Giovanni Bertati , 1778, Venice ) The wedding of Bita (playful drama, libretto by N. Tassi, 1778, Florence ) Fatima (serious opera, 1779, Teatro Regio di Torino directed by Pugnani with Nicola Tacchinardi ) La Dido (serious opera, libretto by Pietro Metastasio , 1779, Forlì ) Arminio (serious opera, libretto by Nicola Coluzzi, 1781, Turin) Amaionne (serious opera, libretto by Sebastiano Gambino, 1784, Turin) La clemenza di Tito (serious opera, libretto by Pietro Metastasio , 1798, Turin) Manuscript scores Bernardino Ottani, Chirie at 4: o with S.ti , SBN IT \ ICCU \ MSM \ 0021525 . Score. Bologna - International Museum and Library of Music of Bologna, location: MS.MART.2.63. <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Bernardino+Ottani">Read more on Last.fm</a>. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.