Gregorio Babbi
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Gregorio Babbi was an Italian opera
tic tenor
. He performed in the premieres of numerous operas, including works by Girolamo Abos
, Pietro Auletta
, Andrea Bernasconi
, Giuseppe de Majo
, Giuseppe Ferdinando Brivio, Pasquale Cafaro
, Gioacchino Cocchi
, Nicola Conforto
, Pasquale Errichelli
, Baldassarre Galuppi
, Giuseppe Gazzaniga
, Geminiano Giacomelli
, Johann Adolph Hasse
, Giovanni Antonio Giay
, Niccolò Jommelli
, Gaetano Latilla
, Leonardo Leo
, Gennaro Manna
, Antonio Maria Mazzoni
, Davide Perez, Niccolò Piccinni
, Nicola Sabatino
, Giuseppe Scarlatti
, and Tommaso Traetta
among others.
Opera
Opera is an art form in which singers and musicians perform a dramatic work combining text and musical score, usually in a theatrical setting. Opera incorporates many of the elements of spoken theatre, such as acting, scenery, and costumes and sometimes includes dance...
tic tenor
Tenor
The tenor is a type of male singing voice and is the highest male voice within the modal register. The typical tenor voice lies between C3, the C one octave below middle C, to the A above middle C in choral music, and up to high C in solo work. The low extreme for tenors is roughly B2...
. He performed in the premieres of numerous operas, including works by Girolamo Abos
Girolamo Abos
Girolamo Abos, last name also given Avos or d'Avossa and baptized Geronimo Abos , was a Maltese-Italian composer of both operas and church music....
, Pietro Auletta
Pietro Auletta
Pietro Antonio Auletta was an Italian composer mainly known for his operas....
, Andrea Bernasconi
Andrea Bernasconi
Andrea Bernasconi was an Italian composer. He began his career in his native country as a composer of operas. In 1755 he was appointed to the post of Kapellmeister at the Bavarian court in Munich where he produced several more operas successfully and a few symphonies. After 1772 his compositional...
, 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...
, Giuseppe Ferdinando Brivio, 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....
, Gioacchino Cocchi
Gioacchino Cocchi
Gioacchino Cocchi was an Italian composer.He was particularly famous for his theatre music . His first works were performed at Naples and Rome. From 1750 to 1757 he stayed in Venice, where he became chapel master of the Ospedale degli Incurabili . He also taught composition to Andrea Luchesi...
, Nicola Conforto
Nicola Conforto
Nicola Conforto was an Italian composer....
, Pasquale Errichelli
Pasquale Errichelli
Pasquale Errichelli was an Italian composer and organist based in the city of Naples. Trained at the Conservatorio della Pietà dei Turchini, his compositional output consists of 7 operas, 2 cantatas, 1 symphony, 3 sonatas, several concert arias, and the oratorio Gerosolina protetta...
, Baldassarre Galuppi
Baldassarre Galuppi
Baldassare Galuppi was an Italian composer, born on the island of Burano in the Venetian Republic. He achieved international success, spending periods of his career in London and Saint Petersburg, but his main base remained Venice, where he held a succession of leading appointments.In his early...
, Giuseppe Gazzaniga
Giuseppe Gazzaniga
Giuseppe Gazzaniga was a member of the Neapolitan school of opera composers. He composed fifty-one operas and is considered to be one of the last Italian opera buffa composers.-Biography:...
, Geminiano Giacomelli
Geminiano Giacomelli
Geminiano Giacomelli was an Italian composer.Giacomelli was born in Piacenza. In 1724 he was named to the post of Kapellmeister to the duke of Parma. Beginning with the first performance of his opera Ipermestra, in 1724, he became one of the most popular opera composers of his era...
, Johann Adolph Hasse
Johann Adolph Hasse
Johann Adolph Hasse was an 18th-century German composer, singer and teacher of music. Immensely popular in his time, Hasse was best known for his prolific operatic output, though he also composed a considerable quantity of sacred music...
, Giovanni Antonio Giay
Giovanni Antonio Giay
Giovanni Antonio Giay was an Italian composer. His compositional output includes 15 operas, 5 symphonies, and a significant amount of sacred music.-Life and career:...
, Niccolò Jommelli
Niccolò Jommelli
Niccolò Jommelli was an Italian composer. He was born in Aversa and died in Naples. Along with other composers mainly in the Holy Roman Empire and France, he made important changes to opera and reduced the importance of star singers.-Early life:Jommelli was born to Francesco Antonio Jommelli and...
, Gaetano Latilla
Gaetano Latilla
Gaetano Latilla was an Italian opera composer, the most important of the period immediately preceding Niccolò Piccinni .Latilla was born in Bari, and studied at the Loreto Conservatory in Naples...
, Leonardo Leo
Leonardo Leo
Leonardo Leo , more correctly Lionardo Oronzo Salvatore de Leo, was an Italian Baroque composer.-Biography:...
, Gennaro Manna
Gennaro Manna
Gennaro Manna was an Italian composer based in Naples. His compositional output includes 13 operas and more than 150 sacred works, including several oratorios.-References:...
, Antonio Maria Mazzoni
Antonio Maria Mazzoni
Antonio Maria Mazzoni was an Italian composer....
, Davide Perez, Niccolò Piccinni
Niccolò Piccinni
Niccolò Piccinni was an Italian composer of symphonies, sacred music, chamber music, and opera. Although he is somewhat obscure, even to music lovers today, Piccinni was one of the most popular composers of opera—particularly the Neapolitan opera buffa—of his day...
, Nicola Sabatino
Nicola Sabatino
Nicola Sabatino was an Italian composer.Sabatino was born in Naples and became one of the late baroque Neapolitan composers centred on the Music conservatories of Naples and the opera at the Teatro di San Carlo typified by Porpora, Leonardo Leo, Francesco Durante...
, Giuseppe Scarlatti
Giuseppe Scarlatti
Giuseppe Scarlatti was a composer of opere serie and opere buffe. He worked in Rome from 1739 to 1741, and from 1752 to 1754 in Florence, Pisa, Lucca and Turin. From 1752 to 1754, and again from 1756 to 1759, he worked in Venice and for short periods in Milan and Barcelona...
, and Tommaso Traetta
Tommaso Traetta
Tommaso Michele Francesco Saverio Traetta was an Italian composer.-Biography:Traetta was born in Bitonto, a town near Bari, near the top of the heel of the boot of Italy. He eventually became a pupil of the composer, singer and teacher Nicola Porpora in Naples, and scored a first success with his...
among others.