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Antonio Sartorio
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Classical17th centuryoperabaroqueearly music
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Antonio Sartorio (1630 – 30 December 1680) was an Italian composer active mainly in Venice, Italy, and in Hanover, Germany. He was a leading composer of operas in his native Venice in the 1660s and 1670s and was also known for composing in other genres of vocal music. Between 1665 and 1675 he spent most of his time in Hanover, where he held the post of Kapellmeister to Duke Johann Friedrich of Brunswick-Lüneburg – returning frequently to Venice to compose operas for the Carnival. In 1676 he became vice maestro di capella at San Marco in Venice. Sartorio was the brother of composer and organist Gasparo Sartorio and architect Girolamo Sartorio who also had connections with the theatre. Beyond birth records, the first known information about Sartorio relates to the mounting of his first opera, Gl'amori infruttuosi di Pirro, at the Teatro di San Giovanni Grisostomo in Venice on 4 January 1661. His second opera, Seleuco, did not come until five years later when it was produced at the Teatro San Luca on 16 January 1666. The year before, he had been appointed to the position of Kapellmeister to Duke Johann Friedrich of Brunswick-Lüneburg; just months after the duke had assumed authority over the Principality of Calenberg upon his elder brother Georg Wilhelm's inheriting of the Principality of Lüneburg. Friedrich ruled over the Calenberg subdivision of the duchy from 1665 until his death in 1679, fourteen years later. Friedrich was a highly intelligent and educated sovereign who ha
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Sartorio: L'Orfeo: Sinfonia
5232L'orfeo: Se desti pietà
3523Sartorio: L'Orfeo, Act 3: "Orfeo tu dormi?" (Euridice)
3474Giulio Cesare in Egitto: Quando voglio
3155Sartorio: L'Orfeo, Act 1: "Cara e amabile catena" (Euridice, Orfeo)
2846L'Orfeo: Orfeo, tu dormi
2837Sartorio: Antonino e Pompeiano, Act 3: "La certezza di sua fede" (Pompeiano)
1868Sartorio: L'Orfeo, Act 2: "Ahimè, Numi, son morta" (Euridice, Orfeo)
1339Sartorio: L'Orfeo, Act 3: "È morta Euridice" (Orfeo)
12810Sartorio: L'Orfeo, Act 3: "Numi, che veggio... Non ti volger" (Euridice, Orfeo)
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