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GALUPPI, BALDASSARE (1706-1785)

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GALUPPI, BALDASSARE (1706-1785) , See also:Italian musical composer, was See also:born on the 18th of See also:October 1706 on the See also:island of See also:Burano near See also:Venice, from which he was often known by the See also:nickname of Buranello. His See also:father, a See also:barber, and violinist at the See also:local See also:theatre, was his first teacher. His first See also:opera, composed at the See also:age of sixteen, being hissed off the See also:stage, he determined to study seriously, and entered the Conservatorio degli Incurabili at Venice,'as a See also:pupil of See also:Antonio See also:Lotti. After successfully producing two operas in collaboration with a See also:fellow-pupil, G. B. Pescetti, in 1728 and 1729, he entered upon a busy career as a composer of operas for Venetian theatres, See also:writing sometimes as many as five in a See also:year. He visited See also:London in 1741, and arranged a See also:pasticcio, See also:Alexander in See also:Persia, for the Haymarket. See also:Burney considered his See also:influence on See also:English See also:music to have been very powerful. In 1740 he became See also:vice-See also:maestro di cappella at St See also:Mark's and maestro in 1762. In 1749 he began writing comic operas to libretti by See also:Goldoni, which enjoyed an enormous popularity. He was invited to See also:Russia by See also:Catherine II. in 1766, where his operas made a favourable impression, and his influence was also See also:felt in See also:Russian See also:church music. He returned to Venice in 1768, where he had held the See also:post of director of the Conservatorio degli Incurabili since 1762.

He died on the 3rd of See also:

January 1785. Galuppi's best See also:works are his comic operas, of which Il Filosofo di Campagna (1754), known in See also:England as The See also:Guardian See also:Trick'd (See also:Dublin, 1762) was the most popular. His See also:melody is attractive rather than See also:original, but his workmanship in See also:harmony and orchestration is generally See also:superior to that of his contemporaries. He seems to have been the first to extend the concerted finales of See also:Leo and See also:Logroscino into a See also:chain of several See also:separate movements, working up to a See also:climax, but in this respect he is much inferior to See also:Sarti and See also:Mozart. See also:Browning's poem, " A Toccata of Galuppi," does not refer to any known See also:composition, but more probably to an imaginary extemporization on the See also:harpsichord, such as was of frequent occurrence in the musical gatherings of Galuppi's See also:day. See also See also:Alfred Wotquerme, Baldassare Galuppi, etude bibliographique sur ses ,xuvres dramatiques (See also:Brussels, 1902). Many of his autograph scores are in the library of the Brussels See also:conservatoire. (E. J.

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