Vicente Martin y Soler

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Vicente Martín y Soler (May 2, 1754 - January 30, 1806) was a Valencian composer of opera and ballet. Although relatively obscure today, in his own day he was compared favorably with his contemporary, Mozart, as a composer of opera buffa. He has been called the Valencian Mozart. He was born in Valencia and studied music in Bologna under Giovanni Battista Martini. His first opera was Il tutore burlato (1775), an adaptation of Giovanni Paisiello's La frascatana, which in turn was based on a play of the same title by Filippo Livigni. He had the libretto translated into Spanish and adapted it to the zarzuela form as La Madrileña o el tutor burlado, under which title it premiered in Madrid in 1778. Martín y Soler is best known for the comic operas that he composed in Vienna with librettist Lorenzo Da Ponte: Una cosa rara (1786, based on the play La luna de la sierra by Luis Vélez de Guevara), Il burbero di buon cuore (1786, based on the play by Carlo Goldoni), L'arbore di Diana (1787). He is also credited with introducing, in Una cosa rara, the waltz to Vienna. In 1777, he traveled to Naples, to compose his first ballet for the Teatro di San Carlo. During this period, he worked with choreographer Charles le Picq to compose four ballets d’action: La Griselda (1779, derived from the libretto by Apostolo Zeno), I ratti sabini (1780), La bella Arsene (1781), and Tamas Kouli-Kan (1781, an interpretation of Vittorio Amedeo Cigna-Santi's libretto). He also composed two mezzocarattere

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Casanova

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Casanova: Original Soundtrack

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Casanova Soundtrack

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Casanova OST

Vocal Recital: Alvarez, Valentina - Literes, A. / Nebra, J. / Ceruti, R. / Duron, S. / Jerusalem Y Stella, I. / Orejon Y Aparicio, J. De

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Vicente Martín y Soler: Il burbero di buon cuore

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Ifigenia in Aulide - CD 1

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Ifigenia in Aulide - CD 2

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Casanova (Original Soundtrack)

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Arias de zarzuela barroca

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Harmonie Universelle 2

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Casanova (Soundtrack)

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