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See also:DURANTE, See also:FRANCESCO (1684-1755) , See also:Italian composer, was See also:born at Frattamaggiore, in the See also:kingdom of See also:Naples, on the 15th of See also:March 1684. At an See also:early See also:age he entered the Conservatorio dei poveri di Gesu Cristo, at Naples, where he received lessons from Gaetano See also:Greco; later he became a See also:- PUPIL (Lat. pupillus, orphan, minor, dim. of pupus, boy, allied to puer, from root pm- or peu-, to beget, cf. "pupa," Lat. for " doll," the name given to the stage intervening between the larval and imaginal stages in certain insects)
pupil of Alessandro See also:Scarlatti at the Conservatorio di Sant' Onofrio. He is also supposed to have studied under See also:Pasquini and See also:Pitoni in See also:Rome, but no documentary See also:- PROOF (in M. Eng. preove, proeve, preve, &°c., from O. Fr . prueve, proeve, &c., mod. preuve, Late. Lat. proba, probate, to prove, to test the goodness of anything, probus, good)
proof of this statement can be given. He is said to have succeeded Scarlatti in 1725 at Sant' Onofrio, and to have remained there until 1742, when he succeeded See also:Porpora as See also:head of the Conservatorio di See also:Santa Maria di See also:Loreto, also at Naples. This See also:post he held for thirteen years, till his See also:death on the 13th of See also:August 1755 at Naples. He was married three times. His fame as a teacher was all but unrivalled, and See also:Jommelli, Paesiello, See also:Pergolesi, Piccini and See also:Vinci were amongst his pupils. A See also:complete collection of Durante's See also:works, consisting all but exclusively of sacred compositions, was presented by Selvaggi, a Neapolitan See also:lover of See also:art, to the See also:Paris library. A See also:catalogue of it may be found in See also:Fetis's Biographie universelle. The imperial library of See also:Vienna also preserves a valuable collection of Durante's See also:manuscripts. Two requiems, several masses (one of which, a most See also:original See also:work, is the See also:Pastoral See also:Mass for four voices) and the See also:Lamentations of the See also:prophet See also:Jeremiah are amongst his most important settings. The fact that Durante never composed for the See also:stage brought him a somewhat exaggerated reputation as a composer of sacred See also:music. Although certainly one of the best See also:- 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 under various forms—Scottish kirk, 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)
church composers of his See also:style and See also:period, he is far inferior to See also:Leo, and seems to have been the founder of the sentimental school of Italian church music. Leo and Scarlatti at their best have a solidity and dignity entirely wanting in Durante, and Alessandro Scarlatti at his worst is frivolous rather than sentimental. This type of music is characteristic of Durante as a See also:man; intellectually uncultured, but sincerely devout. As a teacher he insisted on the strict observance of rules for which he either would not or could not give a See also:reason, differing thus from Alessandro Scarlatti, whose first care was to develop his pupils' talents according to
their own individualities, regarding all rules as subservient to his exquisite sense of musical beauty. See also:Hasse rightly protested against Durante's being described as the greatest harmonist of See also:Italy, a See also:title which could be claimed only by Alessandro Scarlatti. (E. J.
End of Article: DURANTE, FRANCESCO (1684-1755)
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