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even pardons Piso, since it was his action that saved Octavia’s life. Tiridates is restored to his kingdom, and Ormoena happily returns to her husband. Personalities | Reinhard Keiser | Early & Middle Baroque | Opera ...

Source: Definitive Opera Encyclopedia, founding editor Stanley Sadie

1674–1739, German Reinhard Keiser was born in Teuchern, Germany. When his mentor, Johann Sigismud Kusser (1660–1727) relocated to Hamburg in around 1693, Keiser succeeded him as Kappellmeister in Brunswick. There, Keiser produced Kusser’s first opera, Basilius (1694), and wrote several operas of his own, but after only three years he followed his mentor to ...

Source: Definitive Opera Encyclopedia, founding editor Stanley Sadie

(Rin’-härt Ki’-zer) 1674–1739 German composer Keiser studied at St Thomas’s School, Leipzig. His first operas were performed at the Brunswick court during the early 1690s. In 1695 he moved to Hamburg, where he became director of the Gänsemarkt theatre in 1702. He wrote over 60 operas, mainly for Hamburg, but periods of absence did not further his cause. ...

Source: Classical Music Encyclopedia, founding editor Stanley Sadie

Feind – whose real name was Aristobulos Eutropius or Aristobulos Wahrmund – was practising law in his home city, Hamburg, when he wrote his first libretto for Reinhard Keiser (1674–1739), Octavia. Keiser needed a replacement at this time, after the death of Christian Heinrich Postel, who had been his librettist for nine years. Feind, however, ...

Source: Definitive Opera Encyclopedia, founding editor Stanley Sadie

, violin sonatas, trio sonata and three volumes of cantatas. Recommended Recording: Sonatas, Trio Sonatas, Camerata Moderna (MDG) Introduction | Late Baroque | Classical Personalities | Reinhard Keiser | Late Baroque | Classical ...

Source: Classical Music Encyclopedia, founding editor Stanley Sadie

Handel gained valuable experience in Hamburg as an orchestral violinist, while making his earliest attempts at composing for the theatre. The leading operatic master at the Gänsemarkt was Reinhard Keiser (1674–1739), from whose work Handel borrowed ideas throughout his career. He became great friends with a younger composer-singer, Johann Mattheson (1681–1764), but in December 1704 the pair quarrelled and ...

Source: Classical Music Encyclopedia, founding editor Stanley Sadie

in 1696, but his voice broke soon after and he sang tenor roles until 1705. He took part in more than 60 new operas, including some composed by Keiser, and soon began to compose and conduct his own. Mattheson is best remembered for his friendship with the young Handel, who arrived in Hamburg in 1703 and was ...

Source: Definitive Opera Encyclopedia, founding editor Stanley Sadie

, his Los cielos hacen estrellas (‘The Skies have Stars’, 1672) which established the traditional form of Spanish opera. Introduction | Early & Middle Baroque | Opera Personalities | Reinhard Keiser | Early & Middle Baroque | Opera ...

Source: Definitive Opera Encyclopedia, founding editor Stanley Sadie

of which only Almira (1705) survives: its odd mixture of German recitative, Italian arias and French ballets were tailored for the peculiar tradition that had been established by Reinhard Keiser (1674–1739) – the prolific, yet inconsistent, music director of the Hamburg opera house. Georg Philipp Telemann (1681–1767) also subsequently mixed Italian and German styles for Hamburg, although ...

Source: Definitive Opera Encyclopedia, founding editor Stanley Sadie

which songs and other music alternated with dialogue. Although the Singspiel originated in the seventeenth century, the term was not generally used until the eighteenth. Croesus (1711) by Reinhard Keiser (1674–1739) was an early example of Singspiel. Towards the middle of the eighteenth century, other forms of opera – the French opéra comique and the English ballad opera – ...

Source: Definitive Opera Encyclopedia, founding editor Stanley Sadie
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