SACCHINI, ANTONIO MARIA GASPARE (1734-1786)

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SACCHINI, ANTONIO MARIA GASPARE (1734-1786) , Italian musical composer, was born at Pozzuoli, on the 23rd of July 1734. He was the son of a poor fisherman and was heard singing on the sands by

Durante

DURANTE, FRANCESCO (1684-1755)

, who undertook his education at the Conservatorio di Sant' Onofrio at Naples.

Durante

DURANTE, FRANCESCO (1684-1755)

and

Piccinni

PICCINNI, NICCOLA (1728-1800)

taught him composition, and Nicola Fiorenza the

violin

VIOLIN

. The intermezzo Fsa Donato was written for the theatre of the Conservatorio in 1756, but his first serious opera was produced at Rome in 1762, and was followed by many others, nearly all of which were successful. In 1769 he went to Venice, and in conseauence of the

great

GREAT

success achieved there by the
production of his opera Alessandro nell' Indie he was appointed director of the Conservatorio dell' Ospedaletto, where he trained some admirable female singers and wrote

church

CHURCH
CHURCH (according to most authorities derived from the Gr. Kvpcaxov [&wµa], " the Lord's [house]," and common to many Teutonic, Slavonic and other
languages
- LANGUAGES
under various forms—Scottish
kirk
- KIRK, SIR JOHN (1832- )
, Ger. Kirche, Swed. kirka, Dan. kirke, Russ. tserkov, Buig. cerk
CHURCH, FREDERICK EDWIN (1826-1900)
CHURCH, GEORGE EARL (1835–1910)
CHURCH,
RICHARD
WILLIAM (1815–189o)
CHURCH, SIR
RICHARD
(1784–1873)

music. In 1772 he visited London, where, notwithstanding a cruel cabal formed against him, he achieved a brilliant success, especially in his four new operas, Tamerlano, Lucio Vero, Nitetti e Perseo and II Gran Cid. Later he met with an equally enthusiastic reception in Paris, where in 1783 his Rinaldo was produced under the immediate patronage of Queen Marie Antoinette, to whom he had been recommended by the emperor Joseph II. But neither in England nor in France did his reputation continue to the end of his visit. He seems everywhere to have been the victim of

bitter

BITTER, KARL THEODORE FRANCIS (1867– )

jealousy. Even Marie Antoinette was not able to support his cause in the face of the general outcry against the favour shown to foreigners; and by her command, given with the utmost reluctance, his last opera and undoubted master-piece, (Edipe a Colone, was set aside in 1786 to make room for Lemoine's Phedrea circumstance which so preyed upon his mind that he died of chagrin on the 7th (or 8th) of October 1786.
Sacchini's style was rather graceful than elevated, and he was deficient both in creative power and originality. But the dramatic truth of his operas, more especially the later ones, is above all praise, and he never fails to write with the care and finish of a thorough and accomplished musician. Edipe was extremely successful after his death, and was performed at the Academic nearly six hundred times.

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