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PASQUINI, BERNARDO (1637-1710)

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PASQUINI, BERNARDO (1637-1710)

PASQUINI, BERNARDO (1637-1710) , See also:

ITALIAN

Italian musical composer, was See also:

BORN, IGNAZ, EDLER VON (1742–1791)

born at See also:

MASSA

Massa in Val di Nievole (See also:

Tuscany) on the 8th of See also:

DECEMBER (Lat. decent, ten)

December 1637, He was 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 See also:

MARCANTONIO [MARCANTONIO RAIMONDI]

Marcantonio See also:

CESTI

Cesti and See also:

LORETO

Loreto Vittori. He came to See also:

Rome while still See also:

young and entered the service of See also:

Prince See also:

BORGHESE

Borghese; later he became organist of St Maria See also:

MAGGIORE, LAGO (Lacus Verbanus of the Romans; Fr. Lac Majeur; Ger. Langensee)

Maggiore. He enjoyed the See also:

PROTECTION

protection of See also:

Queen See also:

Christina of See also:

Sweden, in whose See also:

HONOUR (Lat. honos or lwnor, honoris; in English the word was spelled with or without the u indifferently until the 17th century, but during the 18th century it became fashion-able to spell the word " honor "; Johnson's and Webster's Dictionaries stereoty

honour an See also:

OPERA (Italian for " work ")

opera of his, Dov' e amore a pieta, was produced in 1679. During Alessandro See also:

SCARLATTI, ALESSANDRO (1659-1725)

Scarlatti's second sojourn in Rome (1703–1708), Pasquini and See also:

Corelli were frequently associated with him in musical performances, especially in connexion with the Arcadian See also:

Academy, of which all three were members. Pasquini died at Rome on the 22nd of See also:

NOVEMBER (Lat. novem, nine)

November 1710, and was buried in the See also:

church of St Lorenzo in See also:

LUCINA

Lucina. He deserves remembrance as a vigorous composer for the See also:

HARPSICHORD, HARPSICON, DOUBLE VIRGINALS (Fr. clavecin; Ger. Clavicymbel, Kiel-Flugel; Ital. arpicordo, cembalo, davicembalo, gravecembalo; Dutch, davisinbal)

harpsichord; and an interesting See also:

account of his See also:

MUSIC

music for this See also:

INSTRUMENT (Lat. instrumentum, from insincere, to build up, furnish, arrange, prepare)

instrument will be found in J. S. Shedlock's The See also:

PIANOFORTE (Ital. piano, soft, and forte, loud)

Pianoforte See also:

SONATA (From Ital. sonare, to sound)

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