Benedetto Marcello
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Benedetto Giacomo Marcello was an Italian composer, writer, advocate, magistrate, and teacher.
Benedetto Marcello
Il teatro alla moda
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Il teatro alla moda is a satirical pamphlet in which its author, the Venetian composer Benedetto Marcello, vents his critical opinions on the milieu of the Italian opera seria in the first decades of
Benedetto Marcello
…Andromaca, Arianna abandonnata, and finally Cassandra. Marcello vented his opinions on the state of musical drama at the time in the satirical pamphlet Il teatro alla moda, published anonymously in Venice in 1720. This little work, which was frequently reprinted, is not only extremely amusing, but is most valuable as a…
Frontispiece of Il teatro alla moda
Benedetto Marcello