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Grove Music Online
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[extrait de:] FAUN TANENBAUM TIEDGE : 'Porta, Giovanni', Grove Music Online ed. L. Macy (Accessed 2 July 2004), http://www.grovemusic.com :
"Porta, Giovanni (b Venice or the Veneto, c1675; d Munich, 21 June 1755). Italian composer. He was a pupil in Venice of Francesco Gasparini, and is thought to have been from 1706 to 1710 at Cardinal Ottoboni’s court in Rome, where he would have worked with Corelli. He held the post of maestro di cappella at Vicenza Cathedral in 1710–11 and at Verona Cathedral in 1714–16. In 1716 he returned to Venice and began a busy period of opera composition. Porta is known today mainly for his Numitore, commissioned to open the first season of the Royal Academy in London on 2 April 1720. He afterwards continued to compose operas for Italian theatres. From 1726 to 1737 he was maestro di coro at the Ospedale della Pietà in Venice, where, as a colleague of Vivaldi, he wrote a wealth of sacred music […] From 1726 he was also on the roster of the Accademia Filarmonica in Verona. […] [In 1767] Porta left Venice to accept a position as Hofkapellmeister at the Bavarian court of the Elector Karl Albrecht in Munich, where he remained until his death."
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