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SALIERI, ANTONIO (1750-1825)

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SALIERI, See also:ANTONIO (1750-1825) , See also:Italian composer, was See also:born at See also:Legnano, on the 19th of See also:August 1750. His See also:father was a See also:merchant who died a bankrupt. Through the See also:family of See also:Mocenigo he obtained See also:free See also:admission to the See also:choir school of St See also:Mark's, See also:Venice. In 1766 he was taken to See also:Vienna by F. L. Gassmann, who introduced him to the See also:emperor See also:Joseph. His first See also:opera, Le See also:Donne letterate, was produced at the See also:Burg-Theater in 177o. Others followed in rapid See also:succession, and his Amides (1771) was a triumphant success. On Gassmann's See also:death in 1774, he became Kapellmeister and, on the death of See also:Benno in 1788, Hofkapellmeister. He held his offices for fifty years, though he made frequent visits to See also:Italy and See also:Paris, and composed See also:music for many See also:European theatres. His chef d'oeuvre was literate (afterwards called Axur, re d'Ormus), a See also:work which was preferred by the public of Vienna to See also:Mozart's See also:Don Giovanni. It was first produced at Vienna on the 8th of See also:June 1787, and was revived at See also:Leipzig in 1846, though only for a single See also:representation.

His last opera was See also:

Die Neger, produced in 1804. After this he devoted himself to the See also:composition of See also:church music, for which he had a very decided See also:talent. Salieri lived on friendly terms with See also:Haydn, but was a See also:bitter enemy to Mozart, whose death he was suspected of having produced by See also:poison; but no See also:evidence was ever forthcoming to give See also:colour to the See also:accusation. He retired from See also:office on his full See also:salary in 1824, and died at Vienna on the 7th of May 1825. Salieri gave lessons in composition to See also:Cherubini and to See also:Beethoven, who dedicated to him his " Three Sonatas for See also:Pianoforte and See also:Violin," Op. I2. See also See also:Albert von See also:Hermann, Antonio Salieri, eine Studie (1897) ; J. F. Edler von See also:Mosel, Uber das Leben and die Werke See also:des Antonio Salieri (Vienna, 1827).

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