Antonio Calegari
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Antonio Calegari was an Italian baroque composer. His oratorio
La risurrezione di Lazzaro 1779, was recorded under Filippo Maria Bressan
in 2000.
He is to be distinguished from three other composers called Calegari from Padua; Father Francesco Antonio Calegari
(d.1742), and Giuseppe Calegari, composer of a Betulia liberata
(1771). and his own nephew Luigi Antonio Calegari
.
Oratorio
An oratorio is a large musical composition including an orchestra, a choir, and soloists. Like an opera, an oratorio includes the use of a choir, soloists, an ensemble, various distinguishable characters, and arias...
La risurrezione di Lazzaro 1779, was recorded under Filippo Maria Bressan
Filippo Maria Bressan
Filippo Maria Bressan is an Italian conductor. He was chorus master of the Coro e Orchestra dell’Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, then of his own ensemble, the Athestis Chorus, and conductor of the baroque orchestra Academia de li Musici...
in 2000.
He is to be distinguished from three other composers called Calegari from Padua; Father Francesco Antonio Calegari
Francesco Antonio Calegari
Father Francesco Antonio Calegari was an Italian baroque music theorist, composer and priest. Calegari was maestro di cappella at Basilica of Santa Maria dei Frari, Venice in 1705, and at the Basilica del Santo, Padua in the 1720s. Several manuscript copies of his treatise on consonance and...
(d.1742), and Giuseppe Calegari, composer of a Betulia liberata
Betulia Liberata
Betulia liberata is the title of a libretto by Metastasio which was originally commissioned by Emperor Charles VI and set by Georg Reutter the younger in 1734, and which was subsequently set by as many as 30 composers including Jommelli , Ignaz Holzbauer , Kozeluch , Schuster , Salieri and most...
(1771). and his own nephew Luigi Antonio Calegari
Luigi Antonio Calegari
Luigi Antonio Calegari was an Italian opera composer. He was nephew of Antonio Calegari and possibly related to other composers in the Padua Calegari family; Father Francesco Antonio Calegari , and Giuseppe Calegari, composer of a Betulia liberata .-Operas:*Il matrimonio scoperto ossia Le...
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