CALDARA, ANTONIO

äntôˈnyō käldäˈrä, c.1670–1736, Italian composer. In 1714, Caldara obtained a position at the imperial court in Vienna, where he remained until his death. He composed many operas and oratorios, other sacred and secular vocal music, and chamber works. His canons were especially popular. Franz Joseph Haydn was influenced by Caldara.

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Antonio Vivaldi: The Red Priest of Venice
Book by Karl Heller, David Marinelli; Amadeus Press, 1997
Subjects: Composers--Italy--Biography, Vivaldi, Antonio--1678-1741
...singer and an organist , and Antonio Caldara cellist . Beginning in the...houses: Alessandro Scarlatti, Antonio Caldara, Leonardo Leo, the Germans...as did Giuseppe Torelli, Antonio Caldara, Tommaso Albinoni, and Arcangelo...
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Companion to Baroque Music
Book by Julie Anne Sadie; Oxford University Press, 1998
Subjects: Music--17th Century--History And Criticism, Music--18th Century--History And Criticism
...revived musical life, engaging Antonio Caldara as his director. After the Habsburg...Bononcini, Alessandro Scarlatti, Antonio Caldara, J.A. Hasse, Nicola Porpora...10 Itinerant Musicians . Caldara, Antonio . See CENTRAL EUROPE 3 Austro-Hungary...
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The Baroque Clarinet
Book by Albert R. Rice; Clarendon Press, 1992
Subjects: Clarinet--History, Music--18th Century--History And Criticism
...Juditha Triumphans 81 Caldara 83 Conti 85...Chigiana , Siena, 1948 82 4.3 Caldara 1718 , Ifigenia in Aulide, act I scene ii, contralto solo...
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A History of the Oratorio - Vol. 3
Book by Howard E. Smither; University of North Carolina Press, 1987
Subjects: Oratorio
...Calvario by Nicola Luciani, was performed in 1779 at San Girolamo and 1780 at the college; and Il popolo di Giuda , by Antonio Sacchini, was performed in 1768 and 1777 at the Chiesa Nuova and 1769 at the college. See app. A for these libretto title...
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A History of the Oratorio - Vol. 1
Book by Howard E. Smither; University of North Carolina Press, 1977
Subjects: Oratorio
...Antonio Caldara 355...VII-9. Antonio Caldara 357...1959 and Ursula Kirkendale Antonio Caldara: Sein Leben und seine venezianisch-romischen...
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Laudate Pueri - the World of the Vienna Choir Boys
Magazine article by Peter Catalano; World and I, Vol. 15, December 2000
Subjects: Choirboys--Behavior, Grossmann, Agnes--Appointments, resignations and dismissals, Vienna Choir Boys--Training
...Over the centuries, illustrious composers wrote for and directed the choir. Among them were Heinrich Isaak, Antonio Caldara, Antonio Salieri (unjustly cast as the villain in Amadeus), Haydn, Gluck, Mozart, and Bruckner. When the Austro-Hungarian...
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Mozart: la Clemenza Di Tito
Magazine article by Christopher Monk; Musical Opinion, Vol. 129, March 2006
...September. The commission designated that the already well known text, written by Pietro Metastasio in 1734, and set by Antonio Caldara be used. For Prague they chose an adaptation made by Caterino Mazzola. This was an ideal politically correct theme...
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The Credo of the B Minor Mass: Style and Symbol
Magazine article by David Humphreys; Musical Times, Vol. 140, Summer 1999
...interest in it greatly increased towards the end of his life, and is reflected in his choice of works by Palestrina, Antonio Caldara and Johann Hugo von Wilderer, which he copied for performance in Leipzig, as well as by his study of Fuxs treatise...
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Royal Peculiar: the Music and Patronage of Philippe of Orléans, Regent of France
Magazine article by Jean-Paul C. Montagnier; Musical Times, Vol. 148, Summer 2007
Subjects: Art, Castles & palaces, Education, Music, Musicians & conductors, Painting
...at that time.6 As for Nicolas Bernier, a presumed student of Caldara and the most famous professor of composition of iSth-century...Orleans had made in Venice by the Master of music of San-Marco Antonio Biffi, which was very well performed and found extremely beautiful...


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Caldara, Antonio
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
CALDARA, ANTONIO anto nyo kalda ra, c.1670 1736, Italian composer. In 1714, Caldara obtained a position at the imperial court...popular. Franz Joseph Haydn was influenced by Caldara. ____________________ Copyright 2009...


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