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Grove Music Online
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[extrait de:] Harris S. SAUNDERS: 'Lotti, Antonio', Grove Music Online ed. L. Macy (Accessed 10 June 2004), http://www.grovemusic.com :
"Lotti, Antonio
(b Venice or Hanover, c1667; d Venice, 5 Jan 1740). Italian composer. By 1683 at the latest he had settled in Venice and was studying with Legrenzi […]. He was among the first to join the musical fraternity of S Cecilia when it was established on 25 November 1687 at St Mark’s, where he served as an extra singer. From 30 May 1689 he was employed as a regular alto. He followed C. F. Pollarolo in his rise through the hierarchy of St Mark’s: when Pollarolo was appointed second organist (13 August 1690) Lotti was his assistant, and two years later, when Pollarolo was appointed vice-maestro di cappella, Lotti replaced him as second organist (23 May 1692). On 17 August 1704 Lotti became first organist. Except for two works of the 1690s, his operas for Venice were written between 1706 and 1717. […]
During a visit of the Crown Prince of Saxony to Venice that extended from spring 1716 to autumn 1717, Lotti was invited to assemble an opera company for the elector at Dresden. Shortly before he received permission to leave Venice on 22 July 1717, he married the soprano Santa Stella, who accompanied him to Dresden along with several musicians from St Mark’s, the librettist A. M. Lucchini, the violinist Veracini and the alto castrato Senesino. The theatre architect and set designer Alessandro Mauro, who had acted as impresario at the S Giovanni Grisostomo since 1715, also joined the new operatic enterprise in Dresden. From 1717 to 1719 the Dresden opera under Lotti constituted one of the finest opera establishments in Europe.
[…] After returning to Venice in autumn 1719 Lotti chose to devote himself to sacred music […]"
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