Ignazio Prota (15 September 1690 – January 1748) was an Italian composer and music educator. He was the father of composer

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and the grandfather of composer

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. Prota was born and died in

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. He taught for many years at the Conservatorio di Sant'Onofrio a Porta Capuana in Naples where two of his students were composers Matteo Capranica and

Niccolò Jommelli Niccolò Jommelli (; 10 September 1714 – 25 August 1774) was an Italian composer of the Neapolitan School. Along with other composers mainly in the Holy Roman Empire and France, he was responsible for certain operatic reforms including re ...

. He wrote mainly

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and produced 3

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s.Ignazio Prota at operone.de
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Operas

*'' La finta fattucchiera'' (

opera buffa ''Opera buffa'' (; "comic opera", plural: ''opere buffe'') is a genre of opera. It was first used as an informal description of Italian comic operas variously classified by their authors as ''commedia in musica'', ''commedia per musica'', ''dramm ...

, libretto by Angelo Birini), Spring 1721, Naples, Teatro dei Fiorentini) *''La vedova ingegnosa'' (

intermezzi In music, an intermezzo (, , plural form: intermezzi), in the most general sense, is a composition which fits between other musical or dramatic entities, such as acts of a play or movements of a larger musical work. In music history, the term ha ...

, libretto by Tommaso Mariani, 12 July 1735, Naples, Teatro S. Bartolomeo) *''La camilla'' (opera buffa, libretto by Antonio Palomba, 1737, Naples, Teatro Nuovo)

References

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