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(To-ma’-zo Tra-ât’-te) 1727–79 Italian composer Trained in Naples, Traetta began his career as an opera composer there and in Rome. He was appointed to the Parma court in 1758, where his first few operas included two based on translations of texts used by Rameau, so bringing French structure into Italian opera (Ippolito ed Aricia, 1759; I tintaridi, ...

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1727–79, Italian The Italian composer Tommaso Traetta reflected Gluck’s ideals for opera, in which orchestration, choral scenes, dance and solo arias were combined. One example of these principles was Traetta’s setting of an Italian translation of the text Rameau had used in his own Hippolyte et Aricie (‘Hippolytus and Aricia’, 1759), which married the French and Italian ...

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although a third, Paride ed Elena (1770), was not. Gluck’s Reform of Opera Gluck was not the only reformer of opera. A number of Italians, notably Jommelli and Traetta, had worked along similar lines, but Gluck, although his purely musical gifts were circumscribed, was the greatest and the most influential. He described the reforms in ...

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with Gioacchino Gizziello (1714–61) in Lisbon and with the English actor David Garrick (1717–79) in London. After returning to mainland Europe in 1757 Guidagni sang in operas by Hasse and Traetta, and created the title roles in Gluck’s Orfeo ed Euridice and Telemaco. In later years, Guadagni performed in Munich and Potsdam before retiring to Padua in 1776. Charles ...

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the court in Mannheim, which later moved to Munich. Verazi went too. The most important libretti that he wrote while in Munich included Sofonisba (1762), written for music by Traetta, and an ancient Roman subject, Lucio Silla (1775), which Verazi wrote for Johann Christian Bach. Verazi did not confine himself to the Munich court, but wrote for ...

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Voice: Songs and Duets from Late 18th-Century England, Emma Kirkby, Rufus Müller, Timothy Roberts, Frances Kelly (Hyperion) Introduction | Classical Era | Classical Personalities | Tommaso Traetta | Classical Era | Classical ...

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, the effect in practice was to increase the importance of the music, while the words were of lesser standing. Introduction | Classical Era | Opera Personalities | Tommaso Traetta | Classical Era | Opera ...

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in Scandinavia and Russia) by serious Italian opera, or opera seria. It was even occasionally performed in Paris, despite nationalist resistance. Composers such as Hasse, Jommelli and Traetta generally set librettos by Metastasio, and brought to opera the new and graceful melodic style of the galant. Their operas consisted almost entirely of highly decorated arias (in which ...