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Grove Music Online
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[extrait de:] Michael F. ROBINSON: 'Sarro, Domenico Natale', Grove Music Online ed. L. Macy (Accessed 11 June 2004), http://www.grovemusic.com :
"Sarro [Sarri], Domenico Natale
(b Trani, Apulia, 24 Dec 1679; d Naples, 25 Jan 1744). Italian composer. His marriage contract, dated 6 February 1705, states that he came to Naples between the ages of six and seven, that he had studied at the Neapolitan conservatory of S Onofrio, and that he had not been outside the city since. His first known composition is a sacred opera, L’opera d’amore, performed in 1702 at the Arciconfraternità della Ss Trinità de’Pellegrini. […]
During 1706 and 1707 Sarro composed several operas for the Neapolitan public theatres. Between 1708 and 1718, however, he wrote few works of this kind: this may partly have been because of changed circumstances at court. […]
Sarro’s promise as a dramatic composer began fully to materialize in 1718. Between this date and 1741 he composed many operas, of which the earlier ones (i.e. those produced between 1718 and 1725) constitute perhaps his most significant contribution to music. […] In 1720 Sarro was promised two important musical posts when they became vacant. The first was that of maestro di cappella to the city of Naples, which he obtained in 1728 on the death of the holder, Gaetano Greco. The second was that of vice- maestro di cappella to the court; to help the composer until he actually occupied this post, the viceroy awarded him a salary of 22½ ducats a month. He became vice- maestro, with a stipend of 30 ducats a month, in late October 1725, and he remained in the service of the court for the rest of his life. In 1735 he took over the duties, though not the title, of maestro di cappella at court when the holder of the post, Mancini, fell ill. when Mancini died in September 1737, Sarro was appointed his successor with a monthly salary of 35 ducats."
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