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VINCI, LEONARDO (1690-173o)

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Originally appearing in Volume V28, Page 92 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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VINCI, LEONARDO (1690-173o) , See also:Italian musical composer, was See also:born at Strongoli in See also:Calabria in 1690 and educated at See also:Naples under Gaetano See also:Greco in the Conservatorio dei Poveri di Gesu Cristo. He became known first by his comic operas in Neapolitan See also:dialect in 1719; he also composed many serious operas. He was received into the See also:Congregation of the See also:Rosary at Formiello in 1728 and died by poisoning in 1730, not 1732, as is generally stated. His comic operas, of which Le Zite 'n Calera (1722) is the best, are full of See also:life and spirit; in his serious operas, of which Didone Abbandonata (See also:Rome, 1728) and Artaserse (Rome, 1730) are the most notable, have an incisive vigour and directness of dramatic expression deservedly praised by See also:Burney. The well-known See also:air " Vo solcando," from Artaserse, is a See also:good example of his See also:style.

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