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Francesco Corradini
4+ albums
18th centuryitalian
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Francesco Corradini (b Venice, c.1690; d Madrid, 14 Oct. 1769) was an Italian composer. His early works—an oratorio and operas—were written for Naples, but he spent most of his career in Spain (initially as a maestro de capilla in Valencia), dominating the country's musical scene for about 15 years. In 1734 he moved to Madrid, where he composed a run of popular operas and other stage pieces in the modern style that united Spanish librettos with Italian music. His surviving works (much of his output is lost) are characterized by tunefulness and harmonic simplicity, though with an over-reliance on predictable if pleasing phrase structures. The comedy Don Juan de Espina en Madrid (1740) is typical. In 1747 Corradini was appointed one of the orchestral directors in the royal theatre at the palace of Buen Retiro, and contributed the second act for a Spanish version of Pietro Metastasio's La clemenza di Tito. In his later years he retired from opera composition and devoted himself to his duties as maestro de música to the Queen Dowager Isabella Farnese. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.