The Chapel Royal of Naples was the sacred musical establishment of the Spanish court in Naples

Naples

Naples is a city in Southern Italy, situated on the country's west coast by the Gulf of Naples. Lying between two notable volcanic regions, Mount Vesuvius and the Phlegraean Fields, it is the capital of the region of Campania and of the province of Naples...

 which began with the Catalan-Aragonese

Crown of Aragon

The Crown of Aragon Corona d'Aragón Corona d'Aragó Corona Aragonum controlling a large portion of the present-day eastern Spain and southeastern France, as well as some of the major islands and mainland possessions stretching across the Mediterranean as far as Greece...

 Court of Naples, and continued to the Habsburgs the Bourbons, and Joseph Napoleon.

Maestri di cappella, vice masters and organists

Masters of the chapel included: The first maestro Diego Ortiz

Diego Ortiz

Diego Ortiz was a Spanish composer and musicologist, in service to the Spanish viceroy in Naples and later to Philip II of Spain. Ortiz published influential treatises on both instrumental and vocal performance....

 arrived in the entourage of Viceroy Pedro de Toledo

Pedro de Toledo

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 in 1540, another Spanish successor, a Flemish maestro, then another Fleming Giovanni de Macque

Giovanni de Macque

Giovanni de Macque was a Franco-Flemish composer of the late Renaissance and early Baroque, who spent almost his entire life in Italy...

 (1599–1614), the first Italian Giovanni Maria Trabaci

Giovanni Maria Trabaci

Giovanni Maria Trabaci was an Italian composer and organist. He was a prolific composer, with some 300 surviving works preserved in more than 10 prints, and was especially important for his keyboard music....

 (1614–46), the Neapolitans Andrea Falconieri

Andrea Falconieri

Andrea Falconieri , also known as Falconiero, was an Italian composer and lutenist from Naples. He resided in Parma from 1604 until 1614, and later moved to Rome, and then back to his native Naples, where in 1647 he became meastro di cappella at the royal chapel.-External links:...

 (1647–56), and Filippo Coppola

Filippo Coppola

Filippo Coppola was an Italian composer, maestro di cappella of the Chapel Royal of Naples from 1658 to 1680. With Manuel García Bustamante he composed, or rearranged a Spanish composer's composition, El robo de Proserpina y sentencia de Júpiter as Las faticas de Ceres in Naples in 1678.-References:...

 (1658–80), then the Venetian Pietro Andrea Ziani

Pietro Andrea Ziani

Pietro Andrea Ziani was an Italian organist and composer. He was uncle of Marc'Antonio Ziani. His works included „L'Assalone punito" and the operas „La ricreazione burlesca" , „L'invidia conculcata della virtù, merito, virtù, merito, valore di Leopoldo imperatore" , „Cloridea " , „Circe" ,...

 (1680–84), followed by Alessandro Scarlatti

Alessandro Scarlatti

Alessandro Scarlatti was an Italian Baroque composer especially famous for his operas and chamber cantatas. He is considered the founder of the Neapolitan school of opera. He was the father of two other composers, Domenico Scarlatti and Pietro Filippo Scarlatti.-Life:Scarlatti was born in...

 (1684-, then again 1708-25), alternating in his absences with Francesco Mancini

Francesco Mancini

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 (-1708, then again 1725-1737), Domenico Sarro

Domenico Sarro

Domenico Natale Sarro, also Sarri was an Italian composer.He studied at the Neapolitan conservatory of S. Onofrio. He composed extensively in the early 18th century. His opera Didone abbandonata, premiered on 1 February 1724 at the Teatro San Bartolomeo in Naples, was the first setting of a major...

 (1737–1744), Leonardo Leo

Leonardo Leo

Leonardo Leo , more correctly Lionardo Oronzo Salvatore de Leo, was an Italian Baroque composer.-Biography:...

 (1744), then Giuseppe de Majo

Giuseppe de Majo

Giuseppe de Majo was an Italian composer and organist. He was the father of the composer Gian Francesco de Majo. His compositional output consists of 10 operas, an oratorio, a concerto for 2 violins, and a considerable amount of sacred music.-Life and career:Born in Naples, Majo spent most of his...

 (1745–1771), Pasquale Cafaro

Pasquale Cafaro

Pasquale Cafaro was an Italian composer who was particularly known for his operas and the significant amount of sacred music he produced, including oratorios, motets, and masses....

 (1771–1787), Paisiello (1787-)
Vice masters included Domenico Sarro

Domenico Sarro

Domenico Natale Sarro, also Sarri was an Italian composer.He studied at the Neapolitan conservatory of S. Onofrio. He composed extensively in the early 18th century. His opera Didone abbandonata, premiered on 1 February 1724 at the Teatro San Bartolomeo in Naples, was the first setting of a major...

 (-1707, then again 1725 to 1734). And in the third post of Pro-Vice Maestro from 1725 Leonardo Vinci

Leonardo Vinci

Leonardo Vinci was an Italian composer, best known for his operas.He was born at Strongoli and educated at Naples under Gaetano Greco in the Conservatorio dei Poveri di Gesù Cristo. He first became known for his opere buffe in Neapolitan dialect in 1719; he also composed many opere serie...

. Francesco Provenzale

Francesco Provenzale

Francesco Provenzale was an Italian Baroque composer and teacher.Before the year 1658, there is virtually no record of Provenzale's existence, although it's thought that he studied at the Conservatorio della Pietà dei Turchini in Naples. The year of his entry into history is 1654, the year his...

 was only maestro onorario.

Organists included Leonardo Leo

Leonardo Leo

Leonardo Leo , more correctly Lionardo Oronzo Salvatore de Leo, was an Italian Baroque composer.-Biography:...

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