Stefano Landi

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Stefano Landi (baptized February 26, 1587 – October 28, 1639) was an Italian composer and teacher of the early Baroque Roman School. He was an influential early composer of opera, and wrote the earliest opera on a historical subject: Sant'Alessio (1632). Landi was born in Rome, the capital of the Papal States. In 1595 he joined the Collegio Germanico in Rome as a boy soprano, and he may have studied with Asprilio Pacelli. Landi took minor orders in 1599 and began studying at the Seminario Romano in 1602. He is mentioned in the Seminary's records as being the composer and director of a Carnival pastoral in 1607; and in 1611 his name appears as an organist and a singer, though he was already maestro di cappella at S Maria della Consolazione in 1614. Agostino Agazzari was maestro di cappella at the Seminario Romano, and he may have been one of Landi's teachers as well. In 1618 he had moved to the north of Italy, and published a book of five-voice madrigals at Venice; apparently he had acquired a post as maestro di cappella at Padua. In addition he wrote his first opera in Padua, La morte d'Orfeo. Most likely it was used as part of the festivities for a wedding. His experience in Padua and Venice was essential for developing his style, since there he made contact with the work of the progressive Venetian School composers, whose music was generally avoided in conservative Rome. In 1620 Landi returned to Rome, where he spent the rest of his life, where his patrons included success

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Landi: Homo fugit velut umbra...

Landi: Arias

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Hush

Landi, S.: Morte D'Orfeo (La) [Opera]

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Landi : Il Sant'Alessio

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L'Arpeggiata, Christina Pluhar: The Complete Alpha Recordings

Passacaglia della vita

Homo fugit velut umbra...

Monteverdi, C.: Orfeo (L') [Opera] (Highlights)

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Metamorfosi - Baroque Impressions

Homo fugit velut umbra / L'Arpeggiata - Christina Pluhar

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Stefano Landi: Passacaglia della Vita (Arr. for 3 Soprano & Ensemble by Jeannette Sorrell)

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