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JOMMELLI, NICCOLA (1714-1774)

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JOMMELLI, NICCOLA (1714-1774) , See also:Italian composer, was See also:born at See also:Aversa near See also:Naples on the loth of See also:September 1714. He received his musical See also:education at two of the famous See also:music See also:schools of that See also:capital, being a See also:pupil of the Conservatorio de' poveri di Gesu Cristo under Feo, and also of the Conservatorio della pieta dei Turchini under Prota, See also:Mancini and See also:Leo. His first See also:opera, L'Errore amoroso, was successfully produced at Naples (under a See also:pseudonym) when Jommelli was only twenty-three. Three years afterwards he went to See also:Rome to bring out two new operas, and thence to See also:Bologna, where he profited by the See also:advice of Padre See also:Martini, the greatest contrapuntist of his See also:age. In the meantime Jommelli's fame began to spread beyond the limits of his See also:country, and in 1748 he went for the first See also:time to See also:Vienna, where one of his finest operas, Didone, was produced. Three years later he returned to See also:Italy, and in 1753 he obtained the See also:post of See also:chapel-See also:master to the See also:duke of See also:Wurttemberg at See also:Stuttgart, which See also:city he made his See also:home for a number of years. In the same See also:year he had ten commissions to write operas for princely courts. In Stuttgart he permitted no operas but his own to be produced, and he modified his See also:style in accordance with See also:German See also:taste, so much that, when after an See also:absence of fifteen years he returned to Naples, his countrymen hissed two of his operas off the See also:stage. He retired in consequence to his native See also:village, and only occasionally emerged from his solitude to take See also:part in the musical See also:life of the capital. His See also:death took See also:place on the 25th of See also:August 1774, his last See also:composition being the celebrated See also:Miserere, a setting for two See also:female voices of Saverio Mattel's Italian See also:paraphrase of See also:Psalm li. Jommelli is the most representative composer of the See also:generation following Leo and See also:Durante. He approaches very closely to See also:Mozart in his style, and is important as one of the composers who, by See also:welding together German and Italian characteristics, helped to See also:form the musical See also:language of the See also:great composers of the classical See also:period of Vienna.

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