Maddalena Ai Piedi Di Christo
27,00 USD
Description
Born in Venice around 1670, Caldara gave Barcelona the first opera ever heard in Catalonia, Il pi bel nome (1708), commissioned by his patron, the future Emperor Charles VI, before eventually settling in Vienna in the latter's service in 1716. A prolific composer with three thousand works to his credit, Caldara died in the Austrian capital in 1736 - in the Krtnerstrasse, like Vivaldi five years later, and in a similar state of destitution. The genre, born in the wake of the Counter-Reformation