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A history of music
books.google.comGrace Gridley Wilm - 1930 - 382 pages - Snippet view
He lived from about 1645 to 1681, and was distinguished as a singer and harpist and as a
composer of operas and oratorios,
as well as of numerous cantatas and madrigals. A story is told concerning Stradella that an enemy of his, ...
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Opera 101: a complete guide to learning and loving opera
books.google.comFred Plotkin - 1994 - 494 pages - Snippet view
George Frideric Handel (1685-1759) moved to Italy in 1706 and became a wildly popular
composer of operas and oratorios
(religious works with singers, orchestra, and chorus that differed from operas in that they usually were sung in ...
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The New Oxford companion to music: Volume 1
books.google.comDenis Arnold - 1983 - 2017 pages - Snippet view
Ariosti was a prolific
composer of operas and oratorios,
and Burney considered him to possess distinct talent, if little inventive genius. The prison scene in his opera Coriolano (1723) was apparently parodied in the Newgate scenes of ...
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Baker's biographical dictionary of musicians: Volume 1
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books.google.comTheodore Baker, Nicolas Slonimsky - 1984 - 2577 pages - No preview
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Czech music
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books.google.comČeský hudební fond Praha. Hudební informační středisko - 1995 - Snippet view
... conductor and
composer of operas and oratorios,
although known today primarily on account of his violin concertos and the ardent prayer Kol Nidrei for cello - o> a compo composer of some inspired chamber music.
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An almanac for music-lovers
books.google.comElizabeth C. Moore - 1940 - 382 pages - Snippet view
... "the greatest singing master that ever lived" (Grove),
composer of operas and oratorios,
teacher of Caffarelli (see April 16), Farinelli (see Jan. 24), Hasse, and Haydn 1750 Antonio Salieri born, Italian conductor and opera composer ...
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Fux
books.google.comEgon Wellesz - 1965 - 54 pages - Snippet view
Stephan's, and for the following fifteen years he was first and foremost a
composer of operas and oratorios.
His dramatic genius, the capacity to encompass a whole scale of contrasting emotions, was fully appreciated by his ...
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Robert Lowth
books.google.comBrian Hepworth - 1978 - 215 pages - Snippet view
The link between Lowth's poetic ability and Handel suggests a further parallel between the greatest eighteenth-century authority on Oriental, Hebrew poetry, and the greatest European
composer of operas and oratorios
on Biblical themes.
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The road to music
books.google.comNicolas Slonimsky - 1960 - 180 pages - Snippet view
He was Buononcini, a
composer of operas and oratorios,
who went to London about the same time as Handel. This rivalry became quite a topic of discussion in English society, and a verse was published in a London paper commenting upon it.
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Music since 1900
books.google.comLaura Diane Kuhn, Nicolas Slonimsky - 2001 - 1174 pages - No preview
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