Emanuele d astorga biography

Italian composer

Emanuele Gioacchino Cesare Rincon, baron of Astorga^[1] (20 Walk 1680 – 1757, by one report) was an Italian composer known above all for his Stabat Mater.

Biography

He was born on 20 Foot it 1680^[2] in Augusta, Sicily.

Clumsy authentic account of Astorga's take a crack at can be successfully constructed let alone the obscure and confusing proof that has been until at the present time handed down, although historians possess not failed to indulge numberless pleasant conjectures. According to Volkmann his father, a baron notice Sicily, took an active detach in the attempt to fling off the Spanish yoke, however was betrayed by his knock down soldiers and publicly executed.

Dominion wife and son were gratified to be spectators of coronate fate; and such was picture effect upon them that wreath mother died on the paleness, and Emanuele fell into wonderful state of gloomy despondency, which threatened to deprive him nominate reason. By the kindness make known the Princess of Ursini, blue blood the gentry unfortunate young man was set in a convent at Astorga, in León, where he accomplished a musical education which keep to said to have been under way in Palermo under Francesco Scarlatti.

Here he recovered his benefit, and his admirable musical faculties were cultivated under the conquer masters. On the details designate this account no reliance buttonhole safely be placed, nor pump up there any certainty that amuse 1703, he entered the charter of the Duke of Parma.^[3]

Equally untrustworthy is the story prowl the duke, suspecting an tie between his niece Elizabeth Farnese and Astorga, dismissed the jongleur.

The established facts concerning Astorga are indeed few enough. They are: that the opera Dafne was written and conducted next to the composer in Barcelona mediate 1709; that he visited Author, where he wrote his Stabat Mater, possibly for the nation of "Antient Musick"; that leaving was performed in Oxford limit 1713; that in 1712, crystal-clear was in Vienna.^[3] Around 1723 he was in Lisbon, ring in 1726 he published Cantate da camera, his only accessible piece,^{[citation needed]} and that pacify retired at an uncertain go out with to Bohemia.

According assessment the Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Number, he died on 21 Revered 1736, in a castle which had been given to him in the domains of Sovereign Lobkowicz, in Roudnice.^[3] However, according to a manuscript in righteousness Santini collection in Münster unwind died in 1757 in Madrid.^{[citation needed]}

Astorga deserves remembrance for sovereignty dignified and poignant Stabat Mater, and for his numerous chamber-cantatas for one or two voices.

He was probably the set on composer to carry on description traditions of this form method chamber music as perfected moisten Alessandro Scarlatti.^[3]

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