Collection of choice airs by the most famous composers out of the operas play'd at Rome in the years 1720, 1722, 1723, 1724. [between 1725 and 1750?]

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Collection of choice airs by the most famous composers out of the operas play'd at Rome in the years 1720, 1722, 1723, 1724. [between 1725 and 1750?]

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Unsigned, undated ms. score of vocal parts of 14 songs from operas performed in Rome between 1720 and 1724. Included are 5 arias from Sofonisba by Luca Antonio Predieri (libretto by Francesco Silvani); "Nobil onda" from Adelaide by Nicola Antonio Porpora (libretto by Antonio Salvi); "Varchi un mar" from Cosroe by Carlo Francesco Pollaroli (libretto by Apostolo Zeno?); "La fatal sentenza" from Tito Manlio by Giovanni Giorgio; "Cor di padre" from La Zoe by Carlo Francesco Gasparini (libretto by Silvani); "Placida auretta" from Artaserse by Domenico Sarro; and "Gia sento" from Antonio Lotti's Artaserse (libretto by Silvani). There are also three arias by Filippo Falconi: "Al senti stringo," "Quel torrente," and "Nube agitata."

1 ms. score (227 p. (last p. blank)) ; 19 x 25 cm.

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Howard Mayer Brown Collection (Newberry Library)

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Giorgio, Giovanni, 19..-....

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Zeno, Apostolo, 1668-1750

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Italian dramatist, poet, and scholar. From the description of Autograph letter signed : Venice, to Antonio Gatti, a professor in Pavia, 1708 May 4. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270584644 Italian poet and scholar. From the description of Letters, 1741. (Getty Research Institute). WorldCat record id: 80803949 ...

Predieri, Luca Antonio, 1688-1767

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Porpora, Nicola, 1686-1768

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Gasparini, Francesco, 1668-1727

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Salvi, Antonio, 1664-1724

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Sarro, Domenico, 1679-1744

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Silvani, Francesco.

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Pollarolo, Carlo Francesco, approximately 1653-1723

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Originally composed for organ. Transcribed 1938. First performance Philadelphia, 16 November 1938, Philadelphia Civic Symphony Orchestra, J.W.F. Leman conductor.--Cf. Fleisher Collection. From the description of Fugue in D minor / by Carlo Franco Pollarolo ; transcribed for string orchestra by Bernard Morgan. c1975. (Franklin & Marshall College). WorldCat record id: 53235110 ...

Lotti, Antonio, -1740

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Italian composer. From the description of Messa a quatro / Del Sige. Antonio Lotti Maestro della Ducal / Capella di S. Marco. [between 1736 and 1739] (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270566743 Antonio Lotti (c. 1667-1740), composer, was born in Venice, and studied under Legrenzi. He spent his career at St Mark's Cathedral in Venice, starting as an organist, before becoming maestro di cappella in 1736. He visited Dresden on the invitation of the Crown Prince of Saxony, 1717-171...

Falconi, Filippo, fl. 1724.

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