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Niccolò Piccinni
12+ albums
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Niccolò Piccinni (January 16, 1728 – May 7, 1800) was an Italian composer of symphonies, sacred music, chamber music, and opera. Although he is somewhat obscure, even to music lovers today, Piccinni was one of the most popular composers of opera—particularly the Neapolitan opera buffa—of his day. Historically, he had the misfortune of falling between the generations of his great predecessors such as Pergolesi and the greats who came after him, including Domenico Cimarosa and Mozart. Piccinni was born in Bari, and educated under Leonardo Leo and Francesco Durante, at the S. Onofrio Conservatory. For this, he had to thank the intervention of the Bishop of Bari, since his father, although himself a musician, was opposed to his son's following the same career. Piccinni's first opera, Le donne dispettose, was produced in 1755, and in 1760 he composed, at Rome, the chef d'œuvre of his early life, La Cecchina, ossia la buona Figliuola, an opera buffa with a libretto by Goldoni, which "enjoyed a two-year run in Rome and was played in all the important European capitals. It can probably be called the most popular opera buffa of the 18th century...[even more than]... Pergolesi's La serva padrona...[and]... The first of the new era, culminating in the masterworks of Mozart." La buona figliuola represents a special moment in the history of eighteenth-century music in which comedy began to take on a new dramatic force. It is the moment at which the self-consciously sentimental theatrica
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La Molinarella: Symphony
1832Piccinni: La buona figliuola, Act 1: "Furie di donna irata" (La Marchesa Lucinda)
1153La Buona Figliuola: "Furia di donna"
1004Piccinni: Catone in Utica, Act 1: "Che legge spietata" (Arbace)
885Piccinni: Catone in Utica, Act 1: "Che giurai? Che promisi?" (Arbace)
746O notte o dea del mistero
687Piccinni: Roland, Act 2: "En butte aux fureurs de l'orage" (Médor)
588La buona figliuola maritata: Overture
469Piccinni: Roland, Act 1: "En butte aux fureurs de l'orage" (Médor)
4110Didone abbandonata, Act I Scene 5: Son regina e sono amante
36albums
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La Cecchina Ossia La Buona Figliola
Son regina e sono amante
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Piccinni: Didon
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Piccinni, N.: Roland [Opera]
Piccinni: Le donne vendicate
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Italian Opera
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Music for your Infant
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L'Olimpiade
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Piccinni: Salve Regina - Dixit Dominum
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Piccinni: Donne Vendicate (Le) (The Revenge of the Women)
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Piccinni: Finte Gemelle (Le)
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