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SACCHINI, See also:ANTONIO MARIA GASPARE (1734-1786) , See also:Italian musical composer, was See also:born at See also:Pozzuoli, on the 23rd of See also:July 1734. He was the son of a poor fisherman and was heard singing on the sands by See also:Durante, who undertook his See also:education at the Conservatorio di Sant' Onofrio at See also:Naples. Durante and See also:Piccinni taught him See also:composition, and Nicola Fiorenza the See also:violin. The intermezzo Fsa Donato was written for the See also:theatre of the Conservatorio in 1756, but his first serious See also:opera was produced at See also:Rome in 1762, and was followed by many others, nearly all of which were successful. In 1769 he went to See also:Venice, and in conseauence of the See also:great success achieved there by the See also:production of his opera Alessandro nell' Indie he was appointed director of the Conservatorio dell' Ospedaletto, where he trained some admirable See also:female singers and wrote See also:church See also:music. In 1772 he visited See also:London, where, notwithstanding a cruel See also:cabal formed against him, he achieved a brilliant success, especially in his four new operas, Tamerlano, Lucio Vero, Nitetti e Perseo and II Gran See also:Cid. Later he met with an equally enthusiastic reception in See also:Paris, where in 1783 his Rinaldo was produced under the immediate patronage of See also:Queen See also:Marie Antoinette, to whom he had been recommended by the See also:emperor See also:Joseph II. But neither in See also:England nor in See also:France did his reputation continue to the end of his visit. He seems everywhere to have been the victim of See also:bitter See also:jealousy. Even Marie Antoinette was not able to support his cause in the See also:face of the See also:general outcry against the favour shown to foreigners; and by her command, given with the utmost reluctance, his last opera and undoubted See also:master-piece, (Edipe a Colone, was set aside in 1786 to make See also:room for Lemoine's Phedre—a circumstance which so preyed upon his mind that he died of chagrin on the 7th (or 8th) of See also:October 1786. Sacchini's See also:style was rather graceful than elevated, and he was deficient both in creative See also: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 See also:

death, and was performed at the See also:Academic nearly six See also:hundred times.

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