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Grove Music Online
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[extrait de:] Kurt MARKSTROM: 'Vinci, Leonardo', Grove Music Online ed. L. Macy (Accessed 16 June 2004), http://www.grovemusic.com :
"Vinci, Leonardo
(b Strongoli, Calabria, c1696; d Naples, 27 or 28 May 1730). Italian composer. His music exerted a direct influence on many of the Neapolitan composers of the next generation, notably Pergolesi and Hasse, who were described as his disciples. He also influenced older composers such as Handel […]
Vinci made his operatic début on 19 April 1719 at the Teatro dei Fiorentini in Naples with the commedia per musica Lo cecato fauzo. […] Vinci’s second opera followed immediately in July, and for the next three years he was virtual house composer at the Fiorentini […] He produced his first serious opera, Publio Cornelio Scipione, at the Teatro S Bartolomeo in Naples on 4 November 1722; it was so successful that after the production of Lo labborinto during Carnival, he turned primarily to the dramma per musica. […]
In 1724 Vinci secured his first commission outside Naples, the setting of Lucchini’s Farnace for the Teatro delle Dame in Rome. […] Vinci’s activity reached a peak during the winter of 1725–6 when three new operas were produced: Astianatte in Naples in December, Didone abbandonata in Rome in January and Sirœ re di Persia in Venice in February. The last two were the first of a series of successful collaborations between Vinci and Metastasio. […]
Following the death of Scarlatti in October 1725, Vinci was appointed organist and pro-vice- maestro at the royal chapel in Naples. On his taking up the position in spring 1726, his activity was virtually restricted to Naples and Rome; each year he composed two operas, one for the Teatro S Bartolomeo during the autumn and one for the Teatro delle Dame during Carnival. […] The culmination of his career came in winter 1729–30, when he collaborated with Metastasio on three major works […]. Vinci did not live to enjoy his success. He died in Naples amid rumours that he had been poisoned because of an illicit love affair."
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