Emanuele d'Astorga

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Emanuele d'Astorga (11 December 1681 - 21 August 1736, by some reports) was an Italian composer. He was born at Naples. No authentic account of Astorga's life can be successfully constructed from the obscure and confusing evidence that has been until now handed down, although historians have not failed to indulge many pleasant conjectures. According to some of these, his father, a baron of Sicily, took an active part in the attempt to throw off the Spanish yoke, but was betrayed by his own soldiers and publicly executed. His wife and son were compelled to be spectators of his fate; and such was the effect upon them that his mother died on the spot, and Emanuele fell into a state of gloomy despondency, which threatened to deprive him of reason. By the kindness of the princess Ursini, the unfortunate young man was placed in a convent at Astorga, in León, where he completed a musical education which is said to have been begun in Palermo under Francesco Scarlatti. Here he recovered his health, and his admirable musical talents were cultivated under the best masters. On the details of this account no reliance can safely be placed, nor is there any certainty that in 1703 he entered the service of the duke of Parma. Equally untrustworthy is the story that the duke, suspecting an attachment between his niece Elizabeth Farnese and Astorga, dismissed the musician. The established facts concerning Astorga are indeed few enough. They are: that the opera Dafne was written and conducted

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Deutsche Harmonia Mundi - 50 years

Arie Antiche

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Durante, Astorga, Pergolesi / Sacred Works

Stabat Mater

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Durante, Astorga, Pergolesi - Sacred Works

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50 Jahre Deutsche Harmonia Mundi

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Boccherini & D'Astorga - Stabat Mater

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D'Astorga, Durante, Pergolesi (T.Hengelbrock, Freiburger Barockorchester)

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CD01 - Astorga, Pergolesi, Durante

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Stabat Mater (Camerata Polifonica Siciliana)

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E pur Cesare ha vinto / Stabat Mater

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50 Jahre Deutsche Harmonia Mundi (disc 1: Balthasar-Neumann-Chor & Freiburger Barockorchester feat. conductor: Thomas Hengelbrock)

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