Leonardo Vinci
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Leonardo Vinci was an Italian Baroque composer known chiefly for his 40 or so operas. Comparatively little of his work in other genres survives. A central proponent of the Neapolitan School of opera,
Portrait of Vinci, perhaps a late 18th/early 19th-century copy
Vinci's manuscript of Partenope
Artaserse (Vinci)
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Artaserse is an opera in three acts composed by Leonardo Vinci to an Italian libretto by Pietro Metastasio. This was the first of many musical settings of Metastasio's libretto Artaserse. Vinci and Me
Leonardo Vinci
…Li zite 'ngalera (1722) is generally regarded as the best, are full of life and spirit; his opere serie, of which Didone Abbandonata (Rome, 1726) and Artaserse (Rome, 1730) are the most notable, have an incisive vigour and directness of dramatic expression praised by music historian Charles Burney. According…
Leonardo Vinci - Artaserse - German titlepage of the libretto - Dresden 1746