c. 1696–1730, Italian Vinci studied at the Conservatorio dei Poveri di Gesù Cristo in Naples between 1708 and 1718, and afterwards made his operatic debut with Lo cecato fauzo (‘The False Blind Man’, 1719). He proceeded to dominate operatic life in Naples, and his Li zite ’ngalera (‘The Lovers on the Galley’, 1722) is the earliest extant comic ...
The exceptional soprano Strada is known to have sung in Vivaldi’s La verità in cimento (‘The Truth Tested’, 1720) in Venice in 1721. Between 1724 and 1726 she sang for Vinci, Porpora and Leo at Naples, where she also married the theatre manager Aurelio del Pò. She arrived in London in 1729, where she was Handel’s prima donna ...
musical style was essentially Italianate, and he also adapted operas by Handel, Porpora and Campra for the Hamburg stage. Introduction | Late Baroque | Opera Personalities | Leonardo Vinci | Late Baroque | Opera ...
, 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 Nicolini. Undeterred, Pergolesi produced his first comic opera Lo ...
Antonio Maria Bernacchi, and sang alongside his teacher in his Roman debut of Alessandro Scarlatti’s La Griselda (1721). He spent most of the 1720s singing in operas by Leonardo Vinci (c. 1696–1730), Porpora and Hasse at Rome, Naples and Venice. Initially a soprano, when he arrived in London in 1733 his voice had settled as a mezzo-soprano. During ...
develop the new genre of Neapolitan comic opera. He was promoted to organist of the vice-regal chapel at Naples in 1725, but it was only after the death of Vinci and departure of Hasse from Naples that Leo became a leading opera composer. In addition to Naples, Leo provided operas for Turin, Milan and Bologna, and acquired ...
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. ...
entirely novel feature – the visual attractions of costumed performers and stage scenery. Key Events 1477 Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales first printed 1485 Henry Tudor becomes Henry VII 1495 Leonardo da Vinci paints Last Supper 1517 Martin Luther launches the Protestant Reformation in Europe 1527 Sack of Rome by imperial forces 1531 Michelangelo begin the Last Judgement in the Sistine Chapel 1572 ...
public theatres closed at the start of Lent each year. Native composers such as Gasparini, Vivaldi and Pollarolo dominated Venetian opera until the Neapolitan school, including Leo, Vinci and Porpora, became popular from the late 1720s. Theatres such as San Giovanni Grisostomo seated only a few hundred people, and those who sat in the stalls could ...
England 1492 Christopher Columbus embarks on his journey that ends with the discovery of the Americas 1494 Beginning of the Italian Wars between the major European powers 1495 Leonardo da Vinci paints Last Supper in monastic refectory in Milan 1504 Francesco Petrarch’s Rime (written 14th century) published by Italian linguistic reformer Pietro Bembo c. 1510 Raphael’s School of Athens painted 1517 ...
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 costly and elite art form, ...
During the early eighteenth century a few composers enjoyed regular close collaboration with a favourite librettist, such as Fux with Pariati, or both Vinci and Porpora with the young Metastasio. However, such examples were rare, and instead it was common for a popular libretto created for one major Italian opera centre to be adapted for the needs ...
The history of musical instruments has always been very closely linked to the history of music itself. New musical styles often come about because new instruments become available, or improvements to existing ones are made. Improvements to the design of the piano in the 1770s, for instance, led to its adoption by composers such as Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart ...
The drum is perhaps the oldest instrument known to man. Drummers have always sought increasingly sophisticated ways of refining their art and gaining access to as broad a palette of sounds as possible and, in many instances, have embraced the electronic revolution as enthusiastically as their keyboard-playing counterparts. Early Electronic Drums Early electronic drum systems included the Electro-Harmonix Space ...
Bass Drum The dominant feature of every military band is its big bass drum. Throughout the history of percussion instruments, this drum has been the mainstay of time-keeping, whether it is used for a marching army or in a late-twentieth century heavy metal band. Early versions of the bass drum (it was certainly known in Asia around 3500 BC) ...
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