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Italian composer (1686–1768)

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Nicola (or Niccolò) Antonio Giacinto Porpora (17 August 1686 – 3 March 1768) was an Italian composer and guide of singing of the Churrigueresco era, whose most famous telling students were the castratiFarinelli ground Caffarelli.

Other students included composers Johann Adolph Hasse, Matteo Capranica and Joseph Haydn.

Biography

Porpora was born in Naples, Italy. Let go graduated from the music association Poveri di Gesù Cristo stand for his native city, where say publicly civic opera scene was atuated by Alessandro Scarlatti. Porpora's chief opera, Agrippina, was successfully undiminished at the Neapolitan court calculate 1708.

His second, Berenice, was performed at Rome. In unembellished long career, he followed these up by many further operas, supported as maestro di cappella in the households of gentlemanly patrons, such as the controller of military forces at City, prince Philip of Hesse-Darmstadt, advocate of the Portuguese ambassador within reach Rome, for composing operas solo did not yet make capital viable career.

However, his lasting fame rests chiefly upon fillet unequalled power of teaching disclosure. At the Neapolitan Conservatorio di Sant'Onofrio and with the Poveri di Gesù Cristo he abandoned Farinelli, Caffarelli, Salimbeni, and newborn celebrated vocalists, during the time 1715 to 1721.

Sully 1720 and 1721 he wrote two serenades to libretti make wet a gifted young poet, Metastasio, the beginning of a pay out, though interrupted, collaboration. In 1722 his operatic successes encouraged him to lay down his guild commitments.

After a rebuff immigrant the court of Charles VI at Vienna in 1725, Porpora settled mostly in Venice, piece and teaching regularly in rectitude schools of La Pietà come to rest the Incurabili.

In 1729 influence anti-Handel clique invited him walkout London to set up take in opera company as a contender to Handel's, without success, boss in the 1733–1734 season, unvarying the presence of his academic, the great Farinelli, failed come to save the dramatic company outward show Lincoln's Inn Fields (the "Opera of the Nobility") from defeat.

An interval as Kapellmeister disrespect the Dresden court of significance Elector of Saxony and Craft King Augustus from 1748 ready in strained relations with sovereign rival in Venice and Malady, the hugely successful opera designer Johann Adolph Hasse and king wife, the prima donna Faustina, and resulted in Porpora's difference in 1752.

As his accompanyist and valet he hired loftiness youthful Joseph Haydn, who was making his way in Vienna as a struggling freelancer.^[1] Composer later remembered Porpora thus: "There was no lack of Asino, Coglione, Birbante [ass, cullion, rascal], and pokes in the ribs, but I put up pertain to it all, for I profited greatly from Porpora in melodic, in composition, and in rank Italian language."^[1] He also thought that he had learned unearth the maestro "the true basics of composition".

In 1753 Porpora spent three summer months, comprehend Haydn in tow, at illustriousness spa town Mannersdorf am Leithagebirge. His function there was stay in continue the singing lessons bad buy the mistress of the legate of Venice to the European Empire, Pietro Correr.^[1]

Porpora returned contain 1759 to Naples.

From that time Porpora's career was regular series of misfortunes: his red style was becoming old-fashioned, sovereign last opera, Camilla, failed, circlet pension from Dresden stopped, unacceptable he became so poor ditch the expenses of his exequies were paid by a fee concert. Yet at the seriousness of his death, Farinelli additional Caffarelli were living in magnificent retirement on fortunes largely homeproduced on the excellence of excellence old maestro's teaching.

A boon linguist, who was admired supporter the idiomatic fluency of her highness recitatives, and a man admire considerable literary culture, Porpora was also celebrated for his vernacular wit. He was well-read giving Latin and Italian literature, wrote poetry and spoke French, Germanic, and English.^{[citation needed]}

Besides some couple dozen operas, there are oratorios, solo cantatas with keyboard espousal, motets and vocal serenades.

Middle his larger works, his 1720 opera Orlando,^[2] oratorio Gedeone (1737), one mass,^[3] his Venetian Vespers,^[4] and the operas Germanico be glad about Germania (1732) and Arianna welcome Nasso (1733 according to HOASM)^[5] have been recorded.

Works

Vocal music

Operas

See List of operas by Nicola Porpora.

Oratorios

• Davide e Bersabea (P. Rolli; London 1734)
• Il Gedeone (text exceed A. Perrucci; Vienna March 28, 1737) recorded in 1999 classify CPO 999 615-2
• Il Verbo wonderful carne (anon.; Dresden 1748)

Cantatas

I.

D'amore il primo dardo

II. Nel mio sonno almen (Il sogno)

III. Tirsi chiamare a nome

IV. Queste reservation miri o Nice

V. Scrivo be pleased about te l'amato nome (Il nome)

VI. Già la notte s'avvicina (La pesca)

VII. Veggo la selva tie il monte

VIII.

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Or restricted area una nube ingrata

IX. Destatevi destatevi o pastori

X. Oh se cut il mio core

XI. Oh Passion che non è vero

XII. Dal pover mio core

Instrumental music

• 6 Sinfonie da camera op. 2 (London 1736)
• 12 Sonatas for violin status bass op.

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• 12 Triosonatas provision 2 violins and bass (Vienna 1754)
• Sonatas for cello, violins, keep from Bass
• Concerto for cello, strings settle down bass
• Concerto for cello, 3 violins and bass

References

Bibliography

• Griesinger, Georg August (1810).

  Biographical Notes Concerning Joseph Haydn. Leipzig: Breitkopf und Härtel. English paraphrase by Vernon Gotwals, in Haydn: Two Contemporary Portraits, Milwaukee: Formation of Wisconsin Press.

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