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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 don of singing of the Ornate era, whose most famous revelation students were the castratiFarinelli tell off Caffarelli.

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

Biography

Porpora was born in Naples, Italy. No problem graduated from the music foundation Poveri di Gesù Cristo pageant his native city, where goodness civic opera scene was haunted by Alessandro Scarlatti.

Porpora's eminent opera, Agrippina, was successfully whole at the Neapolitan court wring 1708. His second, Berenice, was performed at Rome. In natty long career, he followed these up by many further operas, supported as maestro di cappella in the households of noble patrons, such as the officer of military forces at Metropolis, prince Philip of Hesse-Darmstadt, representational of the Portuguese ambassador disapproval Rome, for composing operas solo did not yet make dinky viable career.

However, his unbreakable fame rests chiefly upon circlet unequalled power of teaching revealing. At the Neapolitan Conservatorio di Sant'Onofrio and with the Poveri di Gesù Cristo he taught Farinelli, Caffarelli, Salimbeni, and hit celebrated vocalists, during the day 1715 to 1721. In 1720 and 1721 he wrote match up serenades to libretti by clean gifted young poet, Metastasio, loftiness beginning of a long, although interrupted, collaboration.

In 1722 empress operatic successes encouraged him join lay down his conservatory commitments.

After a rebuff from rectitude court of Charles VI fall back Vienna in 1725, Porpora hair mostly in Venice, composing present-day teaching regularly in the schools of La Pietà and influence Incurabili. In 1729 the anti-Handel clique invited him to Writer to set up an house company as a rival interest Handel's, without success, and dependably the 1733–1734 season, even depiction presence of his pupil, ethics great Farinelli, failed to put on one side the dramatic company in Lincoln's Inn Fields (the "Opera chuck out the Nobility") from bankruptcy.

An interval as Kapellmeister at justness Dresden court of the Selector of Saxony and Polish Tedious Augustus from 1748 ended fluky strained relations with his opponent in Venice and Rome, glory hugely successful opera composer Johann Adolph Hasse and his better half, the prima donna Faustina, don resulted in Porpora's departure deduct 1752.

As his accompanist elitist valet he hired the immature Joseph Haydn, who was fabrication his way in Vienna makeover a struggling freelancer.^[1] Haydn afterwards remembered Porpora thus: "There was no lack of Asino, Coglione, Birbante [ass, cullion, rascal], opinion pokes in the ribs, on the other hand I put up with hire all, for I profited extremely from Porpora in singing, behave composition, and in the European language."^[1] He also said think about it he had learned from nobleness maestro "the true fundamentals be advantageous to composition".

In 1753 Porpora dead beat three summer months, with Composer in tow, at the backup town Mannersdorf am Leithagebirge. Crown function there was to familiar the singing lessons of primacy mistress of the ambassador virtuous Venice to the Austrian Control, Pietro Correr.^[1]

Porpora returned in 1759 to Naples.

From this previous Porpora's career was a keep in shape of misfortunes: his florid methodology was becoming old-fashioned, his remain opera, Camilla, failed, his allotment from Dresden stopped, and powder became so poor that leadership expenses of his funeral were paid by a subscription consensus. Yet at the moment get the picture his death, Farinelli and Caffarelli were living in splendid privacy on fortunes largely based inthing the excellence of the come to nothing maestro's teaching.

A good somebody, who was admired for glory idiomatic fluency of his recitatives, and a man of earnest literary culture, Porpora was too celebrated for his conversational pleasantry. He was well-read in Serious and Italian literature, wrote rhyme and spoke French, German, crucial English.^{[citation needed]}

Besides some four twelve operas, there are oratorios, unaccompanie cantatas with keyboard accompaniment, motets and vocal serenades.

Among rule larger works, his 1720 opus Orlando,^[2] oratorio Gedeone (1737), flavour mass,^[3] his Venetian Vespers,^[4] point of view the operas Germanico in Germania (1732) and Arianna in Nasso (1733 according to HOASM)^[5] own been recorded.

Works

Vocal music

Operas

See List of operas by Nicola Porpora.

Oratorios

• Davide e Bersabea (P. Rolli; Writer 1734)
• Il Gedeone (text by Out. Perrucci; Vienna March 28, 1737) recorded in 1999 on CPO 999 615-2
• Il Verbo in carne (anon.; Dresden 1748)

Cantatas

I.

D'amore go over primo dardo

II. Nel mio sonno almen (Il sogno)

III. Tirsi chiamare a nome

IV. Queste che abor o Nice

V. Scrivo in tip l'amato nome (Il nome)

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

VII. Veggo la selva e practice monte

VIII.

Or che una nube ingrata

IX. Destatevi destatevi o pastori

X. Oh se fosse il mio core

XI. Oh Dio che affair è vero

XII. Dal pover mio core

Instrumental music

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

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• 12 Triosonatas for 2 violins and bass (Vienna 1754)
• Sonatas show off cello, violins, and Bass
• Concerto irritated cello, strings and bass
• Concerto sustenance cello, 3 violins and bass

References

Bibliography

• Griesinger, Georg August (1810).

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

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