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See also:STRADELLA, ALESSANDRO (?1645–1682) , See also:Italian composer,
was one of the most accomplished musicians of the 17th See also:century.
The hitherto generally accepted See also:story of his See also:life was first circum-
stantially narrated in See also:Bonnet-Bourdelot's Histoire de la musique
et de ses effets (See also:Paris, 1715). According to this See also:account, Stradella
not only produced some successful operas at See also:Venice, but also
attained so See also:great a reputation by the beauty of his See also:voice that a
Venetian nobleman engaged him to instruct his See also:mistress, Ortensia,
in singing. Stradella, the narrative goes on to say, shamefully
betrayed his See also:trust, and eloped with Ortensia to See also:Rome, whither
the outraged Venetian sent two paid bravi to put him to See also:death.
On their arrival in Rome the assassins learned that Stradella
had just completed a new See also:oratorio, over the performance of
which he was to preside on the following See also:day at S. Giovanni in
Laterano. Taking See also:advantage of this circumstance, they deter-
See also:mined to kill him as he See also:left the See also:- CHURCH
- CHURCH (according to most authorities derived from the Gr. Kvpcaxov [&wµa], " the Lord's [house]," and common to many Teutonic, Slavonic and other languages under various forms—Scottish kirk, Ger. Kirche, Swed. kirka, Dan. kirke, Russ. tserkov, Buig. cerk
- CHURCH, FREDERICK EDWIN (1826-1900)
- CHURCH, GEORGE EARL (1835–1910)
- CHURCH, RICHARD WILLIAM (1815–189o)
- CHURCH, SIR RICHARD (1784–1873)
church; but the beauty of the
See also:music affected them so deeply that their See also:hearts failed them at the
See also:critical moment, and, confessing their treachery, they entreated
the composer to !ensure his safety by quitting Rome immediately.
Thereupon Stradella fled with Ortensia to See also:Turin, where, notwith-
See also:standing the favour shown to him by the See also:regent of See also:Savoy, he
was attacked one See also:night by another See also:band of assassins, who, headed
by Ortensia's See also:father, left him on the ramparts for dead. Through
the connivance of the See also:French See also:ambassador the ruffians succeeded
in making their See also:- ESCAPE (in mid. Eng. eschape or escape, from the O. Fr. eschapper, modern echapper, and escaper, low Lat. escapium, from ex, out of, and cappa, cape, cloak; cf. for the sense development the Gr. iichueoOat, literally to put off one's clothes, hence to sli
escape; and in the meantime Stradella, recovering
from his wounds, married Ortensia, by consent of the regent, and
removed with her to See also:Genoa. Here he believed himself safe; but
a See also:year later he and Ortensia were murdered in their See also:house by a
third party of assassins in the pay of the implacable Venetian.
See also:Recent See also:research has shown that Stradella was the son of a
See also:Cavaliere Marc' See also:antonio Stradella of See also:Piacenza, who in 1642–1643
was See also:vice-marchese and See also:governor of Vignola for See also:Prince Bon-
compagni, who did not wish to live in the dominions from which
he took the See also:title of marchese di Vignola. He was deprived of his
See also:- OFFICE (from Lat. officium, " duty," " service," a shortened form of opifacium, from facere, " to do," and either the stem of opes, " wealth," " aid," or opus, " work ")
office in 1643 for having surrendered the See also:castle to the papal
troops, although it might have sustained a See also:siege of several days
and the help of the See also:duke of See also:Modena was expected. An See also:elder
See also:brother of Alessandro, See also:Francesco by name, became a member of
the Augustinian See also:- ORDER
- ORDER (through Fr. ordre, for earlier ordene, from Lat. ordo, ordinis, rank, service, arrangement; the ultimate source is generally taken to be the root seen in Lat. oriri, rise, arise, begin; cf. " origin ")
- ORDER, HOLY
order, and seems to have enjoyed the See also:protection
of the house of See also:Este. Alessandro is supposed to have been See also:born
about 1645 or earlier, probably at Vignola, or Monfestino, a See also:town
on the road from Modena to Pistoja, to which his father retired
after his dismissal; but no records of his See also:birth have come to See also:light
in either of these places.
End of Article: STRADELLA, ALESSANDRO (?1645–1682)
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