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Name Death Occupation Final known burial place Images Notes Claudio Abbado: 2014 Conductor Reformierte Kirche Fex Crasta [], Sils im Engadin/Segl, Switzerland: Ten months after his death the urn containing his remains was buried in a cemetery belonging to a 15th-century church in Sils-Maria, a village in the Swiss canton of Graubünden where Abbado had a vacation home.
Antonio Lucio Vivaldi [n 2] (4 March 1678 – 28 July 1741) was an Italian composer, virtuoso violinist and impresario of Baroque music. [4] Along with Johann Sebastian Bach and George Frideric Handel, Vivaldi ranks amongst the greatest Baroque composers and his influence during his lifetime was widespread across Europe, giving origin to many imitators and admirers.
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[186] [187] Early medieval music used the tritone in Gregorian chant for certain modes. [188] Guido of Arezzo (c. 991 – c. 1033) was the first theorist to discourage the interval. [188] Mozart did not die from poisoning, and was not poisoned by his colleague Antonio Salieri or anyone else. [189]
Ercole su'l Termodonte (Italian pronunciation: [ˈɛrkole sul termoˈdonte]; Hercules in Thermodon) is a baroque Italian opera in three acts. In 1723, it became the sixteenth opera set to music by Antonio Vivaldi.
The opera, Vivaldi's 13th, was premiered during the Carnival at Venice in 1720. The work is dedicated to Count Sava Vladislavich, [1] a Serbian merchant and diplomat in the employ of Peter the Great, who resided in Venice from 1716 to 1722. The work is listed as RV 739 in the Vivaldi catalogue.
Conservatorio Antonio Vivaldi (officially, Conservatorio Di Musica A. Vivaldi) is a Piedmont music conservatory located in Alessandria, Italy. The Abba-Cornaglia Room seats 50, while the Michele Pittaluga Auditorium seats 120. The school provides "medium and high level music education" for students who are commonly of the age 16 through 23. [1]
Antonio Vivaldi, the Italian Baroque composer and violinist who penned “The Four Seasons,” will be portrayed in “Primavera,” the feature debut of Damiano Michieletto, a leading opera director.