at this suggestion. Serpina reveals the capitan’s true identity and the couple thank Vespone for his help in bringing them together. The happy couple then rejoice. Personalities | Giovanni Battista Pergolesi | Late Baroque | Opera ...
(Jo-van’-ne Bat-tes’-ta Pâr-go-la’-ze) 1710–36 Italian composer Pergolesi studied in Naples with Francesco Durante (1684–1755). He received his first commission in 1731 and the following year was appointed maestro di cappella to the equerry of the Viceroy of Naples. Pergolesi composed comic and serious opera, sacred music and a small quantity of instrumental music. He is chiefly remembered for two works of ...
1710–36, Italian Pergolesi died at a tragically young age, but he produced a substantial corpus of works during his brief yet intense six-year career. In the 1720s he studied in Naples with teachers including Francesco Durante (1684–1755) and Vinci, but his first opera, La Salustia (1732), was a failure due to the death of the star castrato ...
a great deal further in this ‘internationalizing’ of his style, departing in an apparently retrogressive direction: the music of Pulcinella (1920) consisted of arrangements of music by Giovanni Battista Pergolesi (1710–36) or his contemporaries. Neo-Classicism Pulcinella, its music actually written by other composers and ‘merely’ but radically arranged by Stravinsky, is an extreme instance – another is the ...
burial service after his death in 1764. Recommended Recording: Works for Two Harpsichords, Richard Egarr, Patrick Ayrton (Globe) Introduction | Late Baroque | Classical Personalities | Giovanni Battista Pergolesi | Late Baroque | Classical ...
life, and his partnership with Metastasio produced Alessandro dell’Indie (‘Alexander in India’) and Artaserse (both 1730). Vinci’s music was a great influence on the new generation of composers including Pergolesi and Hasse. Vinci’s work also influenced Handel’s later operas, and the older composer appreciated Vinci’s operas enough to adapt several into pasticcios for London. It was rumoured that Vinci ...
1673–1732, Italian Nicolo Grimaldi, known as ‘Nicolini’, studied singing in Naples with the composer Francesco Provenzale (1624–1704), and made his debut at the age of 12. Nicolini sang in the cathedral and royal chapel as a soprano, but soon became associated with operas by Scarlatti. He also sang for Bononcini, Lotti, Leo, Porpora and Vinci. ...
Monastery while providing texts for the comedies and tragedies that were performed in Paris, until he was eventually excommunicated. Introduction | Late Baroque | Opera Personalities | Giovanni Battista Pergolesi | Late Baroque | Opera ...
with dysentery and then with an inflamed intestine, complicated by a liver abscess. Years earlier, it was said, Bellini had heard the Stabat mater by Giovanni Battista Pergolesi (1710–36) and afterwards remarked: ‘If I could write one melody as beautiful as that, I would not mind dying young like Pergolesi.’ He did write melodies as beautiful ...
as opera buffa (‘comic opera’). The earliest examples were composed in Naples, with its rich traditions of popular comedy and street entertainment, by masters such as Giovanni Battista Pergolesi (1710–36) and his teacher Leonardo Vinci (c. 1690–1730), both famous for their serious operas. The Audience Audiences for late-Baroque opera have often been represented as mere affluent consumers of a ...
the king’s box, and the ‘Italians’ who were deployed before the queen’s. The confrontation was originally sparked off in 1752 when the intermezzo La serva padrona by Giovanni Battista Pergolesi (1710–36) was performed in Paris by Italian comic actors, or bouffons. Ultimately, though, there was no clear victory for either side. French serious opera appeared to have ...
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