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Antonio Caldara, the Glossary

Antonio Caldara (– 28 December 1736) was an Italian Baroque composer.^[1]

42 relations: Adriano in Siria, Apostolo Zeno, Barcelona, Baroque, Charles II of Spain, Charles VI, Holy Roman Emperor, Composer, Elisabeth Christine of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel, Fabio Biondi, Ferdinando Carlo Gonzaga, Duke of Mantua and Montferrat, Francesco Maria Marescotti Ruspoli, 1st Prince of Cerveteri, Giovanni Legrenzi, I disingannati, Johann Joseph Fux, Joseph I, Holy Roman Emperor, Kapellmeister, L'Olimpiade, La clemenza di Tito (Caldara), La passione di Gesù Cristo, Libretto, Macerata, Mantua, Marc'Antonio Ziani, Missa Providentiae, Motet, Opera, Oratorio, Oxford University Press, Percy Scholes, Pietro Metastasio, Rome, Salzburg, Sebben, crudele, Smallpox, Sonata, St Mark's Basilica, Teatro Malibran, Tito e Berenice, University of Canterbury, Venice, Vienna, War of the Spanish Succession.
Italian classical composers of church music

Adriano in Siria

Adriano in Siria (Hadrian in Syria) is a libretto by Italian poet Metastasio first performed, with music by Antonio Caldara, in Vienna in 1732, and turned into an opera by at least 60 other composers during the next century.

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Apostolo Zeno

Apostolo Zeno (11 December 1668 in Venice – 11 November 1750 in Venice) was a Venetian poet, librettist, journalist, and man of letters.

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Barcelona

Barcelona is a city on the northeastern coast of Spain.

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Baroque

The Baroque is a Western style of architecture, music, dance, painting, sculpture, poetry, and other arts that flourished from the early 17th century until the 1750s.

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Charles II of Spain

Charles II of Spain (6 November 1661 – 1 November 1700), also known as the Bewitched (El Hechizado), was King of Spain from 1665 to 1700.

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Charles VI, Holy Roman Emperor

Charles VI (Karl; Carolus; 1 October 1685 – 20 October 1740) was Holy Roman Emperor and ruler of the Austrian Habsburg monarchy from 1711 until his death, succeeding his elder brother, Joseph I.

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Composer

A composer is a person who writes music.

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Elisabeth Christine of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel

Elisabeth Christine of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel (28 August 1691 – 21 December 1750) was Princess of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel, Holy Roman Empress, German Queen, Queen of Bohemia and Hungary; and Archduchess of Austria by her marriage to Charles VI, Holy Roman Emperor.

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Fabio Biondi

Fabio Biondi (born 15 March 1961) is an Italian violinist and conductor.

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Ferdinando Carlo Gonzaga, Duke of Mantua and Montferrat

Ferdinando Carlo Gonzaga (31 August 1652 – 5 July 1708) was the only child of Duke Charles II of Mantua and Montferrat, and the last ruler of the Duchy of Mantua of the House of Gonzaga.

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Francesco Maria Marescotti Ruspoli, 1st Prince of Cerveteri

Don Francesco Maria Marescotti, Principe Ruspoli (March 5, 1672 – July 14, 1731) was the ?th Marchese and 1st Principe di Cerveteri, 1st Marchese di Riano and 6th Conte di Vignanello.

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Giovanni Legrenzi

Giovanni Legrenzi (baptized August 12, 1626 – May 27, 1690) was an Italian composer of opera, vocal and instrumental music, and organist, of the Baroque era. Antonio Caldara and Giovanni Legrenzi are Italian Baroque composers.

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I disingannati

I disingannati (The Undeceived) is a comic opera in three acts composed by Antonio Caldara to an Italian libretto by Giovanni Claudio Pasquini based on Molière's play Le Misanthrope.

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Johann Joseph Fux

Johann Joseph Fux (– 13 February 1741) was an Austrian composer, music theorist and pedagogue of the late Baroque era.

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Joseph I, Holy Roman Emperor

Joseph I (Joseph Jacob Ignaz Johann Anton Eustachius; 26 July 1678 – 17 April 1711) was Holy Roman Emperor and ruler of the Austrian Habsburg monarchy from 1705 until his death in 1711.

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Kapellmeister

Kapellmeister, from German Kapelle (chapel) and Meister (master), literally "master of the chapel choir", designates the leader of an ensemble of musicians.

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L'Olimpiade

L'Olimpiade is an opera libretto in three acts by Metastasio originally written for an operatic setting by Antonio Caldara of 1733.

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La clemenza di Tito (Caldara)

La clemenza di Tito is a 1734 opera by Antonio Caldara, the original setting of the libretto by Metastasio.

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La passione di Gesù Cristo

La passione di Gesù Cristo is a libretto by Pietro Metastasio which was repeatedly set as an azione sacra or oratorio by many composers of the late baroque, Rococo and early classical period.

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Libretto

A libretto (an English word derived from the Italian word libretto) is the text used in, or intended for, an extended musical work such as an opera, operetta, masque, oratorio, cantata or musical.

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Macerata

Macerata is a city and comune in central Italy, the county seat of the province of Macerata in the Marche region.

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Mantua

Mantua (Mantova; Lombard and Mantua) is a comune (municipality) in the Italian region of Lombardy, and capital of the province of the same name.

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Marc'Antonio Ziani

Marc'Antonio Ziani (c. 1653 – 22 January 1715) was an Italian composer living in Vienna. Antonio Caldara and Marc'Antonio Ziani are 18th-century Italian composers, 18th-century Italian male musicians, Italian Baroque composers and musicians from Venice.

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Missa Providentiae

Missa Providentiae is a Kyrie–Gloria Mass in D minor composed by Antonio Caldara, which around 1728 was expanded into a Missa tota by Jan Dismas Zelenka: this composer derived a Sanctus and Agnus Dei from Caldara's Kyrie and Gloria, and added a Credo, ZWV 31, of his own hand.

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Motet

In Western classical music, a motet is mainly a vocal musical composition, of highly diverse form and style, from high medieval music to the present.

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Opera

Opera is a form of theatre in which music is a fundamental component and dramatic roles are taken by singers.

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Oratorio

An oratorio is a musical composition with dramatic or narrative text for choir, soloists and orchestra or other ensemble.

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Oxford University Press

Oxford University Press (OUP) is the publishing house of the University of Oxford.

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Percy Scholes

Percy Alfred Scholes (pronounced skolz) OBE PhD (24 July 1877 – 31 July 1958) was an English musician, journalist and prolific writer, whose best-known achievement was his compilation of the first edition of the Oxford Companion to Music.

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Pietro Antonio Domenico Trapassi (3 January 1698 – 12 April 1782), better known by his pseudonym of Pietro Metastasio, was an Italian poet and librettist, considered the most important writer of opera seria libretti.

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Rome

Rome (Italian and Roma) is the capital city of Italy.

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Salzburg

Salzburg is the fourth-largest city in Austria.

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Sebben, crudele

"Sebben, crudele" is an aria from Antonio Caldara's 1710 opera, La costanza in amor vince l'inganno (Faithfulness in love conquers treachery).

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Smallpox

Smallpox was an infectious disease caused by variola virus (often called smallpox virus), which belongs to the genus Orthopoxvirus.

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Sonata

Sonata (Italian:, pl. sonate; from Latin and Italian: sonare, "to sound"), in music, literally means a piece played as opposed to a cantata (Latin and Italian cantare, "to sing"), a piece sung.

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St Mark's Basilica

The Patriarchal Cathedral Basilica of Saint Mark (Basilica Cattedrale Patriarcale di San Marco), commonly known as St Mark's Basilica (Basilica di San Marco; Baxéłega de San Marco), is the cathedral church of the Patriarchate of Venice; it became the episcopal seat of the Patriarch of Venice in 1807, replacing the earlier cathedral of San Pietro di Castello.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antonio_Caldara

Also known as Antonio Caldaro.

Antonio Caldara, the Glossary

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Italian classical composers of church music

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