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54968 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Bach,"
}
] |
54968 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "San Guglielmo d' Aquitania, and was produced at the Fiorentini, which stood in the second rank of Neapolitan theatres, and was not then, as subsequently, confined to the representation of comedy. The opera had only a qualified success with the public, being judged to have too mu... |
54968 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "La Serva Padrona, a light opera which made an instant success and has attained a justly high reputation all the world over. Being in the vein again, he followed this with"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Il Maestro di Musica,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value":... |
54968 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Olimpiade, a grand opera which was brought out in 1735 at the Tordinona. At this time the composer Duni--of whom little more than the name now remains--was a composer much in favor, and was about to bring out a new work of his own,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Nero... |
54968 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Stabat Mater."
}
] |
54968 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Salve Regina, and he was to receive for it the munificent sum of ten ducats--equivalent, perhaps, to about eight dollars of the present currency. Like Mozart, laboring over this"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Requiem, Pergolese gave his last thought and his last stre... |
54968 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "La Serva Padrona, the emotional piety of the"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Salve Regina, and the pathetic strophes of the"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Stabat Mater."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Stabat Mater is for two voices only, and i... |
54968 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Salve Regina,"
}
] |
54968 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Some other differences between the contexture of the present drama and that of the French comedy above mentioned, have been required by the necessity of introducing choruses, partly to conform to modern customs, partly because they are indispensable in a theatre of such vast pro... |
54968 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Panthéon Charivarique"
}
] |
54968 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Barber of Seville."
}
] |
54968 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Adelson e Salvini, the text being an old libretto of Fioravanti. This opera, performed by fellow-pupils on the Conservatory stage, gave some hints of original talent, but as a whole it left such an impression that its author indorsed it,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value":... |
54968 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Il Pirata,"
}
] |
54968 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "La Straniera --was already bespoken, and the Genoese therefore offered eight thousand francs to reproduce"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Bianca e Gernando,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "La Straniera"
}
] |
54968 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Zaira,"
}
] |
54968 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Romeo and Juliet, accepted from Romani,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I Capuletti ed i Montecchi, which was given in March, 1830, Grisi making one of the cast, and such parts of"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Zaira"
}
] |
54968 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "La Sonnambula, the libretto of which Romani had founded on a comedietta by Scribe. Bellini was anxious to excel himself, for the leading singers were none other than Pasta and Rubini. The conditions were favorable, for the fascinating and profitable society of these artists and ... |
54968 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Beatrice di Tenda,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "La Sonnambula and"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Norma. His stay there was a social as well as an artistic success, but he could not protract it, because his engagements with the Italian Opera in Paris c... |
54968 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Crispino e la Comare,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Norma he rose to dignity and maintained calmness, while in"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I Puritani he became noble and strenuous. In"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Il Pirata and in"
},... |
54968 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I Puritani,"
}
] |
54968 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Panthéon Charivarique."
}
] |
54968 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Enrico di Borgogna, described as a"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "opera and successfully produced at Venice in the autumn of 1818. Being asked to supply something for the next season, he provided for the winter of 1819-20 a comic opera called"
},
{
"from": "h... |
54968 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Les Musiciens Célèbres."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "La Zingara, a comic opera at the Nuovo, and"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "La Lettera Anonima, really a musical farce, at the Fondo--and"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Chiara e Serafina ... |
54968 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "La Regina de Golconda,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Jeanne di Calais,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Il Castello di Kenilworth,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Francesca di Foix,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Imelda dei Lambe... |
54968 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "La Fille du Régiment --"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "to a French text--made its brilliant entrance at the Opéra Comique, and public, press and court bestowed upon its author all their honors. Already resident in Paris for some two years, Donizetti saw that it was b... |
54968 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Linda,"
}
] |
54968 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "La Vestale"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Le Puntigli delle donne. Between that time and 1802 he brought out at Rome, Naples, and Venice fifteen operas, which established his early fame. The best known of those early operas is"
},
{
"from": "human",
"valu... |
54968 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "La Finta Filosofa. This performance, which was honored by the presence of the First Consul and Josephine, was a great success for the young composer, whom the newspapers announced as a pupil of Cimarosa. Afterwards he succeeded in forcing the doors of the _Opéra Comique_ with"
... |
54968 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Le Pot de fleurs (March 12, 1805), but this failure did not make much impression, for people remembered only"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Milton."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "La Vestale, it must also be performed. Spontini, favored with the protecti... |
54968 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Bardes, the opera preferred by the Emperor. Méhul, Gossec, and Grétry, the three members of the Académie des Beaux Arts who rendered this verdict, gave evidence of a commendable independence. Spontini, having dedicated his score to the Empress Josephine, immediately set about co... |
54968 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "La Vestale."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "opera,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Pélage ou le Roi et la Paix (April 23, 1814); June 21, he brought out a mediocre opera ballet,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Les Dieux Rivaux, on the occasion ... |
54968 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Agnes called forth a very violent criticism from Rellstab, the representative of all Spontini's enemies in Germany, and who had just been made editor of the"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Vossische Zeitung."
}
] |
54968 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Nurmahal,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Alcidor, and"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Agnes was the same as the composer of"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "La Vestale and"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Cortez."
}
] |
54968 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Les Athéniennes, in place of the opera"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Louis IX.,"
}
] |
54968 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Vestale"
}
] |
54968 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Ferdinand Cortez and in"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "La Vestale."
}
] |
54968 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Olympia, the scene of the revolt in"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Ferdinand Cortez, best of all, the grand _finale_ of"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "La Vestale, rest upon motives so expressive, and appeal so strongly to the emotions, that one cannot d... |
54968 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "; but here he was helpless, for musical taste had totally changed in twenty years. While he was still in Prussia, he proposed to the administration of the _Opéra_ to go to Paris and direct a revival of"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Ferdinand Cortez, with the denouem... |
54968 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "After Gluck, it is I who have made a grand revolution with 'La Vestale'; I have introduced the augmentation of the sixth in harmony, and the big drum in the orchestra. With 'Cortez' I have taken a step forward; I have taken three steps with 'Olympia,' and a hundred with 'Agnes v... |
54968 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Quinto Fabio, and was brought out in Alexandria, through Sarti's influence."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Armida and"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Messenzio, performed in Florence, also"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Adriano in Siria, prod... |
54968 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "La Finta Principessa and"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Giulio Sabino,"
}
] |
54968 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Iphigenia in Aulis. This opera was given during the carnival season in Turin, where it was enthusiastically received, and was also performed in other Italian theatres. It was the last work which he wrote for the stage of his fatherland. The impressions produced upon him by the F... |
54968 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Amphion and"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Circe. He also began an opera,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Marguerite d'Anjou, which was to be brought out at the Tuileries theatre, but its completion was hindered by the progress of the French Revolution, ... |
54968 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Koukourgi, had been nearly completed in the year 1793. But the overthrow of the monarchy on the 10th of August, 1792, and the confused condition of public affairs at this juncture, took away all prospect of its immediate production. In the mean time the composer had left Paris a... |
54968 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You love the music which does not prevent you from thinking of the affairs of state. This remark was probably never forgiven; certain it is that during Napoleon's reign, Cherubini never attained the eminence which he so richly deserved, but for twenty years was obliged to conten... |
54968 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Faniska, which Napoleon had not yet heard."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "It would not please you, sire, said Cherubini, remembering his former discussions with the Emperor."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Why not? the latter inquired."
},
{
"fro... |
54968 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Lodoiska"
}
] |
54968 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Pimmalione, which was performed at the Tuileries in the presence of Napoleon and the art-loving Empress Josephine. The name of the composer had not been communicated to the Emperor, who was profoundly stirred by the music; but when he learned that it was written by Cherubini, he... |
54968 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "École royale de chant et de déclamation,"
}
] |
54968 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Cours de Contrepoint et de Fugue,"
}
] |
54968 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Les Deux Journées,"
}
] |
54968 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Notizie sulla vita e sulle opere di Luigi Cherubini, which even to-day is of substantial value, so far as the principal facts of his life are concerned. Miel, a Frenchman, wrote"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Notices sur la vie et les ouvrages de Cherubini (1842), wh... |
54968 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Les Deux Journées, now known in Germany under the name of"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Der Wasserträger"
}
] |
54968 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "La Vestale, is seen an equally violent change of manner. The year 1786 marks the turning-point in the case of Cherubini, and the transitional work was a cantata called"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Amphion. It was in this year that the musician made his first acquai... |
54968 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Fidelio could not have existed without the"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Water Carrier,"
}
] |
54968 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Anacréon"
}
] |
54968 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Boito staged Goethe's poem with true spirit, making the Evil One his protagonist and giving to the drama an absolutely new form, even attempting to bring back the use of the Latin metres in his verses, an attempt which he was the first to make. The first performance of _Mephisto... |
54968 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "director, as is stated in the following despatch addressed from Rome at that time by Dr. Giovanni Mariotti, syndic of Parma, to the Vice-director of the Conservatory of that city:--"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Arrigo Boito, to whom, before all others, and on sever... |
54968 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I desire to be remembered to Boito, whose great talent I appreciate infinitely; he has sent me his libretto of _Mephistopheles_, by which I see that he is too precocious in desiring to be an innovator. Do not fancy that I would make war on innovators! I simply prefer that people... |
54968 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Mefistofele"
}
] |
54968 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "My musical experiences"
}
] |
54968 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "But, to say the truth, my letter of to-day has another end in view, namely, to commend to you most earnestly for publication two quintets (pianoforte and stringed instruments) composed by Signor Sgambati, of Rome. Liszt had already, and in a most especial and emphatic manner, ca... |
54968 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Fogli volanti (Op. 12), several of which are peculiarly charming; the well-known and truly original Gavotte (Op. 14); four pieces;"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Preludio,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Vecchio Minuetto,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
... |
54968 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Fogli Volanti"
}
] |
54968 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Aïda, the"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Manzoni Requiem and"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Falstaff."
}
] |
54968 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oberto, Conte di San Bonifacio, in the hope of having it performed. On reaching Milan he found that his former teacher and devoted friend, Lavigna, was dead. He experienced the usual difficulties in placing his earliest opera on the stage. At one moment he was full of hope, and ... |
54968 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oberto had been received induced Merelli to engage Verdi to write three operas, to be played either in Milan or Vienna. Eight months' time was given in which to compose each opera, and the price that Verdi was to receive for each was 4,000 livres ($670.00), the profits of the co... |
54968 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I Lombardi was produced, and again success crowned the composer's efforts. It was a great advance on its predecessor in point of style and individuality, and is still performed. Commissions now began to pour in on Verdi, and his name was becoming known beyond the borders of his ... |
54968 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Rigoletto. Verdi retired to Busseto and labored vigorously at his score. It was completed in forty days, and was performed at La Fenice, March 11, 1851. Its success was enormous. The work was soon given in every opera house in Europe with the same results that attended it in Ven... |
54968 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Les Vêpres Sicilliennes, written for the Paris Grand Opéra, and given for the first time there June 13, 1855. It is a brilliant work, but made no advance on its immediate predecessors from the same source. Then came"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Simon Boccanegra, fo... |
54968 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Inno delle Nazioni,"
}
] |
54968 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Don Carlos, Verdi did not produce a new opera for four years, and then appeared"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Aïda, written for the opening of the Italian Theatre in Cairo, in December, 1871, the most brilliant and most original work he had composed up to that time,... |
54968 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "His friend and _collaborateur_, Signor Ghislanzoni, says of him:"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I have known artists who, after having been recklessly prodigal of good humor and affability in their youth, have become gloomy and almost irritable under the burden of gl... |
54968 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Nabucco ; it increased with"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I Lombardi and was established firmly by"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Ernani. In all these works, affluence of melody and rhythmical variety are conspicuous. In none of them is there any profo... |
54968 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I Due Foscari which succeeded"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Ernani, and in which the predominance of the brass wind instruments, a novelty then, was almost overpowering. Then, too, it was charged that his music, if it should be sung much, would ruin the voices of th... |
54968 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Il Trovatore Verdi made another stride in advance. During the two years that passed between the production of"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Rigoletto and that of"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Il Trovatore, a great change had taken place in his style. ... |
54968 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Aïda there is little that can be detached from its stage surroundings without loss of effect. That Verdi was satisfied with the results achieved by him in this opera is evidenced by his revision and rewriting of"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Simon Boccanegra, in whi... |
54968 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Othello exemplified that Verdi's conversion to the methods of modern musical thought was complete. The spectacle of a composer whose fame is established, whose labors have met with a substantial return that has placed him beyond the need of further toil, who has reached an age a... |
54968 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Rigoletto has the best chance; but none of them is destined to the immortality of"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "La Serva Padrona,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Il Matrimonio Segreto,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "La Sonnambula and"
},
... |
54968 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Matthew-Passion"
}
] |
54968 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Antiphonar."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "for"
}
] |
54968 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "L'homme armé, for instance, a very popular song of the period, was thus used. It would be wrong, however, to attribute any irreverence to these composers. They were merely following the promptings of laudable and genuine artistic feelings, in employing that which should readily ... |
54968 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "music which should be free from frivolity. After much deliberation, they commissioned Palestrina to write a mass in the purest attainable church style. The result of their bidding was the composition of the Missa Papæ Marcelli. The success of this remarkable work far exceeded th... |
54968 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Il divino."
}
] |
54968 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Istituzioni harmoniche"
}
] |
54968 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Giovanni Gabrieli and his Age,"
}
] |
54968 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "He prays and we pray with him. If we compare the same text with Palestrina, whose style is not less glorious, nor less elevating to the soul, we feel an immense difference; for Palestrina is the last purest sound of the older direction in music, while Gabrieli announces, in a wo... |
54968 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Nuove Musiche, he places himself in the front rank of the battle and urgently demands the recognition of solo song, so heartily despised by the professional musicians of the time. Caccini, whose own singing gave his hearers intense delight, felt that this department of the art c... |
54968 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Daphne, privately performed at the Palazzo Corsi, in 1597. Later works were the"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Conte Ugolino of Galilei, and three operas by Emilio del Cavalieri, entitled"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Il Satiro,"
},
{
"from": "... |
54968 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "was first used in 1650. Before that time a musical drama of this kind had been known as"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "or"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Monteverde determined certain laws and rules which have ever since served to determine the outlines ... |
54968 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Arianna, was composed by Monteverde and achieved great success. The Duke of Mantua then proved to be the general protector of the new art, for we note that he commanded Monteverde to write operas for different occasions."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Orfeo (1608),"
... |
54968 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Maria Magdalena, produced with great success at Berlin and several important English centres, the following sentences: Mysteries, or miracle-plays, were representations of dramatic scenes borrowed from the Bible, and were performed in the Middle Ages, chiefly by roving Francisca... |
54968 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Euridice at Florence, the first oratorio was performed at Rome, in the church of S. Maria in Valicella, then recently built by St. Philip Neri, the founder of the congregation of the Oratorians. St. Philip, a friend of Palestrina, was a firm believer in the power of sacred music... |
54968 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "La Rappresentazione dell' Anima e del Corpo (The representation of the Soul and the Body). The words were by Laura Guidiccioni and the music by Emilio del Cavalieri. The subject was allegorical, and the style of the music was that of the monodic school, a style wholly declamator... |
54968 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Jefte and"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Iona. Giovanni Paolo Colonna (born in 1640 at Brescia, died in 1695 at Bologna) wrote sacred music of a massive, dignified character, and in every way worthy the school to which it belongs. The manuscript of an"
}
] |
54968 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Pietà, signore,"
}
] |
54968 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Il Sejano,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Clorilda,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Mitrane. The beautiful aria"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Ah! rendimi, well known to all singers, is from his opera"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value... |
54968 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Pur dicesti, are still regarded as standard compositions. He wrote more than twenty operas. In 1756 he was elected maestro di capella at St. Mark's, and in the same year he was commissioned by the Venetian Republic to compose, in honor of the Doge's wedding the Adriatic, the fam... |
54968 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Teoria musicale by him; the court library has many autographs and other works of Marcello, including the cantatas"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Addio di Ettone,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Clorie Daliso and"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": ... |
54968 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Stabat mater, is a composition full of religious fervor and sweet pathos, as well as original in form and melodic invention. Leonardo Leo (1694-1741), who was superior to Astorga, wrote about fifty operas (one for the debut of the soprano Caffarelli), many masses, and a famous M... |
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