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Tommaso Traetta
12+ albums
composeritalianGalanteClassicalItaly
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Tommaso Michele Francesco Saverio Traetta (March 30, 1727–April 6, 1779) was an Italian composer. Traetta was born in Bitonto, a town near Bari, right down near the top of the heel of the boot of Italy. He eventually became a pupil of the composer, singer and teacher Nicola Porpora in Naples, and scored a first success with his opera Il Farnace, in Naples, in 1751. Around this time he seems too have come into contact with Niccolò Jommelli. From here on in, Traetta seems to have had regular commissions from all around the country, running the gamut of the usual classical subjects. Through the following decade, the 1760s, Tommaso Traetta composed music unceasingly—not just opera seria, either. There was a clutch of comedies as well, to say nothing of sacred music composed to imperial order. But opera seria was the generally what her imperial majesty commanded. Traetta's first operas for Catherine the Great seem to have been largely revivals and revisions of his earlier works. But then in 1772 came Antigona —and for whatever reason, whether it was Traetta's own inclination or the promptings of his librettist Marco Coltellini or the availability of the soprano Caterina Gabrielli, the new opera reached areas of feeling and intensity he had never explored before, even in Parma. Traetta died two years later, in April 1779, in Venice, and by then, opera seria was for a variety of reasons, artistic and financial, a threatened species. It was to take a genius to prolong its active
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Antigona: Aria Ah, se lo vedi piangere
972Le Feste d'Imeneo: Bella armonia vieni (Aria)
903Armida: Overture
864Traetta: L'Olimpiade, Act 2: "Gemo in un punto e fremo" (Licida)
745Traetta: L'Olimpiade, Act 2: "Dove son? Che m’avenne?" (Licida)
686Ifigenia in Tauride: Dormi Oreste!
607Ifigenia in Tauride, Atto primo. Sinfonia: I. Allegro
538Antigona: Ombra cara, amorosa
499Ifigenia in Tauride, Atto secondo. Scena 7: Coro. Gli strali tremendi
4910Antigona: Aria Ah, sì, da te dipende
48albums
Traetta: Antigona
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Che Puro Ciel: The Rise of Classical Opera
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Traetta: Ifigenia in Tauride
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Traetta: Ippolito Ed Aricia
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Traetta: Ifigenia in Tauride: Sinfonia: Allegro
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Traetta: Ifigenia in Tauride: Coro. Gli strali tremendi
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El Maestro Farinelli
Traetta: Stabat mater, Litanie a 4 voci & Overture in D Major
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L'Olimpiade
Traetta: In nocte pleana & Stabat mater
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Traetta: Rex Salomon
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Hommage a Bidu Sayao: The Unrivaled Lyric-Soprano in Rare Live Radio Performances, Vol. 2