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Silvestro Palma
Silvestro Palma sometimes De Palma or Da Palma (March 15, 1754 – August 8, 1834) was an Italian composer, primarily of operas. He was born in Barano d'Ischia, was a student of Giovanni Paisiello, and collaborated on a number of works with Paisiello's friend Giovanni Battista Lorenzi. He died, aged 80, in Naples Naples (; it, Napoli ; nap, Napule ), from grc, Νεάπολις, Neápolis, lit=new city. is the regional capital of Campania and the third-largest city of Italy, after Rome and Milan, with a population of 909,048 within the city's adminis .... References ''The article had no references.'' Italian composers Italian male composers 1754 births 1834 deaths {{Italy-composer-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Barano D'Ischia
Barano d'Ischia is a ''comune'' (municipality) in the Metropolitan City of Naples in the Italy, Italian region Campania, located in the south-west area of Ischia island, about 30 km southwest of Naples. It is after Forio the largest ''comune'' in size of the island, although not one of the most populated. Its territory is composed by several small villages: Buonopane, Piedimonte, Fiaiano, Testaccio (no one of this small villages has become a ''frazione''); Testaccio was formerly an independent municipality. Barano d'Ischia borders the following municipalities: Casamicciola Terme, Ischia, Serrara Fontana. History and main sights The area was first settled by the Greater Greece, Greeks, who had a nymphaeum here. Main sights include: *The Pilastri aqueduct (1470) *Church of St. John the Baptist (15th century), one of the most ancient in the island. It houses a canvas by a Caravaggisti, Caravaggist. *Saracen Tower, in the ''village'' of Testaccio *Windmills in Montemarano, Mon ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Giovanni Paisiello
Giovanni Paisiello (or Paesiello; 9 May 1740 – 5 June 1816) was an Italian composer of the Classical era, and was the most popular opera composer of the late 1700s. His operatic style influenced Mozart and Rossini. Life Paisiello was born in Taranto in the Apulia region and educated by the Jesuits there. He became known for his beautiful singing voice and in 1754 was sent to the Conservatorio di S. Onofrio at Naples, where he studied under Francesco Durante, and eventually became assistant master. For the theatre of the Conservatorio, which he left in 1763, he wrote some intermezzi, one of which attracted so much notice that he was invited to write two operas, ''La Pupilla'' and ''Il Mondo al Rovescio'', for Bologna, and a third, ''Il Marchese di Tidipano'', for Rome. His reputation now firmly established, he settled for some years at Naples, where, despite the popularity of Niccolò Piccinni, Domenico Cimarosa and Pietro Guglielmi, of whose triumphs he was bitterly jeal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Giovanni Battista Lorenzi
Giovanni Battista Lorenzi (or ''Giambattista''; 1721–1807) was an Italian librettist. He was born in Puglia and died in Naples and was a friend of Giovanni Paisiello, with whom he collaborated on numerous operas. Libretti *''Fra i due litiganti il terzo gode'' (set by Giovanni Battista Pescetti, 1749) *''Le gelosie'' (set by Niccolò Piccinni, 1755) *''L'idolo cinese'' (set by Giovanni Paisiello, 1767; set by Giacomo Rust, 1773; set by Joseph Schuster, 1776) *''Il furbo malaccorto'' (set by Giovanni Paisiello, 1767) *''La luna abitata'' (set by Giovanni Paisiello, 1768) *''La finta maga per vendetta'' (set by Giovanni Paisiello, 1768) *'' Il Don Chisciotte della Mancia'' (set by Giovanni Paisiello; set by Marcello Bernardini, 1769; set by Niccolò Piccinni, 1770; set by Giovanni Paisiello e Florian Leopold Gassmann, 1771, as ''Don Quischott von Mancia'') *''Gelosia per gelosia'' (set by Niccolò Piccinni, 1770) *''La corsara'' (set by Niccolò Piccinni, 177 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Naples
Naples (; it, Napoli ; nap, Napule ), from grc, Νεάπολις, Neápolis, lit=new city. is the regional capital of Campania and the third-largest city of Italy, after Rome and Milan, with a population of 909,048 within the city's administrative limits as of 2022. Metropolitan City of Naples, Its province-level municipality is the third-most populous Metropolitan cities of Italy, metropolitan city in Italy with a population of 3,115,320 residents, and Naples metropolitan area, its metropolitan area stretches beyond the boundaries of the city wall for approximately 20 miles. Founded by Greeks in the 1st millennium BC, first millennium BC, Naples is one of the oldest continuously inhabited urban areas in the world. In the eighth century BC, a colony known as Parthenope ( grc, Παρθενόπη) was established on the Pizzofalcone hill. In the sixth century BC, it was refounded as Neápolis. The city was an important part of Magna Graecia, played a major role in the merging ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Italian Composers
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1754 Births
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