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  Caldara, Antonio: Biography   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
Born in Venice, Antonio Caldara probably studied with Giovanni Legrenzi, director of the Conservatorio de' mendicanti in that city from 1672 and maestro di cappella at St. Mark's from 1685.
In 1716 Caldara became assistant choirmaster to Fux at St. Stephen's church in Vienna.
Caldara is mentioned, in Carl Philip Emanuel's 1775 letter to to Forkel, as one whose works his father had especially valued in his later years.
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 Antonio Caldara -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
Antonio Caldara (1670 - December 28, 1736) was an (A native or inhabitant of Italy) Italian (Elaborate an extensive ornamentation in decorative art and architecture that flourished in Europe in the 17th century) Baroque (Someone who composes music as a profession) composer.
Caldara was born in (The provincial capital of Veneto; built on 118 islands within a lagoon in the Gulf of Venice; has canals instead of streets; one of Italy's major ports and a famous tourist attraction) Venice (exact date unknown), the son of a violinist.
Caldara is best known as a composer of (A drama set to music; consists of singing with orchestral accompaniment and an orchestral overture and interludes) operas and (A musical composition for voices and orchestra based on a religious text) oratorios.
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 Classical Net - Composers - Caldara
Today Antonio Caldara is not a name many would recognise let alone regard as one of the 'great' composers of the Baroque, yet during his own lifetime and long after his death he was held in high esteem by composers and theoreticians alike.
Antonio Caldara's father Guiseppe was a violinist and was surely responsible for his son's earliest musical training which continued when he became a choirboy at the Basilica of San Marco.
In 1699 Caldara succeeded Marc' Antonio Ziani as maestro di capella da chiesa e da teatro at the Gonzaga court of Ferdinando Carlo, Duke of Mantua.
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 Caldara, Antonio Music Web Links   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
Antonio Caldara - Scholarly study of his life, musical and compositional abilities, and methods of securing new positions.
Antonio Caldara - Summary of life and works with comparisons drawn to other composers of the Baroque period and later.
Caldara, Antonio - Biography tracing his path from singer and instrumentalist to composer of vocal music includes notable positions and summary of works from the Grove Concise Dictionary of Music entry at WQXR radio.
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 HOASM: Antonio Caldara   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
This position required Caldara to compose operas and oratorios for a great many court celebrations (name days, birthdays, weddings); in return, the composer demanded of the emperor an ever larger salary.
By 1729 he was receiving 3,900 florins, more than Fux's salary.
Caldara composed nearly 100 operas, 43 known oratorios, cantatas, Masses, madrigals, and canons.
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 Antonio Caldara - Musicology and Ethnomusicology - School of Music - University of Canterbury
To date five CD recordings of Caldara's works result from his editions and his efforts to persuade performing ensembles and recording companies to take on board an "unknown" composer.
Antonio Caldara [biographical entry and work-list] for Revised Edition of The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians Commissioned new entry, worklist and bibliography replacing entirely the entry in the 1980 6th edition of Grove.
Antonio Caldara, I Disingannati and the Viennese imperial court.
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 ANTONIO CALDARA, Biography, Discography
By 1689 he was known as a cellist and his growing number of compositions included operas, sonatas da chiesa and da camera, and solo cantatas.
This contact was again strengthened in the early part of 1708 after Caldara's return from Mantua and prior to his departure for Barcelona and his first association with the Habsburg dynasty in the person of the Archduke Charles (Charles III).
Today, manuscripts of Caldara's music are widely dispersed across Europe but his compositions which record so valuable a picture of the late Baroque in Italy and Austria are comparatively unknown to performers and little studied by scholars.
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 ANTONIO CALDARA
Born at Venice in 1670 (?) Antonio Caldara received his earliest musical training as a chorister of the Cappella Ducale at St Mark's and, probably, as a pupil of Giovanni Legrenzi.
In the light of Ruspoli's eminence as a patron of the arts, Caldara's appointment as director of the noblemans, distinguished band of virtuosi di canto e suono is proof of an established fame.
Caldara returned to his position in Rome - retained by means of a steady flow of compositions from Vienna - but not before making a detour through Salzburg to court the favour of Franz Anton von Harrach, the Prince-archbishop.
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J.S.Bach, for example is known to have made a copy of a Magnificat by Caldara to which he added a two-violin accompaniment to the "Suscepit Israel" section.
Born in Venice in 1670, he moved to Mantua in 1699,where succeeded Marc Antonio Ziani as maestro di capella at the Gonzaga court of Ferdinando Carlo, Duke of Mantua.
From his compositional output during the next seven years it is clear that Caldara's muse flourished in this stable environment and he composed mainly secular works including 150 solo cantatas, over 50 duets, four operas and nine oratorios.
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 Composer   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
Antonio Caldara was born in Venice around 1670, and died in Vienna in 1736.
To say he was a gifted musician would be the understatement of the century as he was a brilliant viol player, cellist and keyboard player, and in his younger days had risen to the rank of choirboy at St Mark's Church in Venice.
Most of the scores, regrettably, have long disappeared, but we do have notice of the enormous renumeration that Caldara received in his later years spent in Vienna, but regrettably he seemed to spend it faster than anyone could feed him with florins.
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 Lexikonia.de - Informationen zu Antonio Caldara
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Antonio Caldara (* 1670 in Venedig, '  1736 in Wien) war ein italienischer Komponist.
Um 1716 wurde Caldara unter Johann Joseph Fux erster Vizekapellmeister am österreichischen Hof in Wien.
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 Antonio Caldara  (ca.1670 - 1736)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
Viele Jahre reiste Caldara durch ganz Europa und war in Mantua, Venedig, Barcelona und Rom tätig.
Caldaras Kompositionen sind musikgeschichtlich sehr wichtig und waren seinerzeit überaus populär.
Caldara besaß aber auch viel Humor, wie sich z.
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 - Classical Music Dictionary - Free MP3   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
Caldara is one of the most prolific composers of an unusually productive generation.
He was appointed Maestro di cappella to the Duke Ferdinando Gonzaga of Mantua, and he stayed in Rome during 1708, where he came into contact with Handel, Alessandro and Domenico Scarlatti.
While Caldara's output includes a variety of instrumental pieces, the great bulk of his music (over 3.400 items) comprises vocal works.
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 AllRefer.com - Antonio Caldara (Music: History, Composers, And Performers, Biography) - Encyclopedia
Antonio Caldara, Music: History, Composers, And Performers, Biographies
Antonio Caldara[AntO´nyO kAldA´rA] Pronunciation Key, c.1670–1736, Italian composer.
In 1714, Caldara obtained a position at the imperial court in Vienna, where he remained until his death.
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 Antonio Caldara   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
Antonio Caldara was in zijn jeugd zanger in de San Marco te Venetië.
Caldara is een van de grootste figuren der Venetiaanse late barok in de muziek en de beste opvolger van Corelli (1653-1713) op het gebied van de sonate.
TIP!!: kijk voor Antonio Caldara ook bij de citaten, in de encyclopedie of bij het kunst- en cultuurnieuws!!
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 Antonio Caldara International Politics Online   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
By: Alix Verzier, Johann Sebastian Bach, Dietrich Buxtehude, Antonio Caldara, Andreas Hammerschmidt, George Frideric Handel, Johann Nauwach, English Traditional, Scottish Traditional, Antonio Vivaldi
By: Anton Scharinger, Ernst Jankowitsch, Gerhard Eder, Antonio Caldara, George Frideric Handel, Franz Joseph Haydn, Felix Mendelssohn, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Franz Schubert, Christmas Traditional
By: Christoph Willibald Gluck, Antonio Caldara, Antonio Cesti, Franz Schubert, Ludwig van Beethoven, Antonio Lotti, Charles Gounod, Ralph Vaughan Williams, Francis Poulenc, Henry Purcell
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 Antonio Caldara HDTVs   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
By: Alessandro Scarlatti, Antonio Caldara, Antonio Lotti, Antonio Cesti, Giovanni Paisiello, Anonymous, Benedetto Marcello, Giuseppe Giordani, Giulio Caccini, Alessandro Parisotti
By: Ulrich Messthaler, Antonio Caldara, Chiara Banchini, Rene Jacobs, Schola Cantorum Basiliensis Orchestra, Maria Cristina Kiehr, Rosa Dominguez, Andreas Scholl, Gerd Turk, Bernarda Fink
By: Antonio Caldara, Aura Musicale Budapest, René Clemencic
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 Classical Music : Antonio Caldara   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
Caldara - Medea (Cantatas for solo countertenor) / Il Seminario musicale · Lesne
by: Ludwig van Beethoven, Antonio Caldara, George Frideric Handel, Franz Joseph Haydn, Antonio Lotti, Benedetto Marcello, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Nicola Porpora, Domenico Natale Sarro, Giuseppe Sarti
by: Antonio Caldara, Bohdan Warchal, Slovak Chamber Orchestra
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 Buy Caldara: Missa Dolorosa - Stabat Mater / René Clemencic, Sumi Jo - La Promessa / Vincenzo Scalera, The Voice, ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
Composers: Antonio Maria Bononcini, Giovanni Bononcini, Giulio Caccini, Antonio Caldara, Giacomo Carissimi, Vincenzo Ciampi, Giuseppe Giordani, Tommaso Giordani, Christoph Willibald Gluck, Antonio Lotti, Benedetto Marcello, Johann Paul Aegidius Martini, Giovanni Paisiello, Alessandro Scarlatti, Leonardo Vinci
Composers: Vincenzo Bellini, Antonio Caldara, Vincenzo Ciampi, Ernesto de Curtis, Francesco Durante, Giacomo Puccini, Ottorino Respighi, Gioachino Rossini, Paolo Tosti, Giuseppe Verdi
Cecilia Bartoli's new CD features a collection of music that could not be heard in her native Rome at the start of the 18th century due to Papal censorship.
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 Antonio Caldara - netlexikon
Antonio Caldara (* 1670 in Venedig, † 28.
Dezember 1736 in Wien) war ein italienischer Komponist.
Er machte sich mit über 80 Opern und Serenaden, sowie 30 Oratorien einen Namen, obwohl sich seine Musik mehr durch ihren großen Melodienreichtum als durch ihre Originalität auszeichnete.
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 Classical Net - Antonio Caldara - Bibliography
Antonio Caldara: Essays on his life and times: Edited by Brian W Pritchard
Antonio Caldara: Missa a 4 voci D Dur " Vix Orimur Morimur " in der bearbeitung Jan Dismas Zelenka: Commentary by Brian W Pritchard
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 Get it cheap: Classical Music : Antonio Caldara -   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
by: Cecilia Bartoli, Marc Minkowski, Les Musiciens du Louvre, Alessandro Scarlati, Antonio Caldara, George Frideric Handel
by: Johann Sebastian Bach, Heinrich Schütz, Giulio Caccini, Antonio Caldara, Karl Münchinger, Stuttgart Chamber Orchestra, Suzanne Danco, Jeanne Demessieux
by: Antonio Caldara, René Jacobs, Schola Cantorum Basiliensis Instrumental Ensemble, Maria Cristina Kiehr, Rosa Dominguez, Bernarda Fink, Andreas Scholl, Gerd Türk, Ulrich Messthaler
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 Find in a Library: Antonio Caldara : essays on his life and times
Find in a Library: Antonio Caldara : essays on his life and times
Antonio Caldara : essays on his life and times
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 Pritchard (1987) Antonio Caldara: Essays on his life and times   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
Pritchard (1987) Antonio Caldara: Essays on his life and times
Antonio Caldara: Essays on his life and times
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 Classical Music : Antonio Caldara   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
by: Giulio Caccini, Antonio Caldara, Giacomo Carissimi, Vincenzo Ciampi, Francesco Durante, Giuseppe Giordani, Giovanni Legrenzi, Antonio Lotti, Benedetto Marcello, Louis Niedermeyer
by: Johann Sebastian Bach, Giulio Caccini, Antonio Caldara, Francesco Durante, Christoph Willibald Gluck, Alessandro Scarlatti, Heinrich Schutz, Karl Munchinger, Stuttgarter Kammerorchester, Jeanne Demessieux
Händel: Dixit Dominus; Caldara: Missa dolorosa [Hybrid SACD]
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 Stabat Mater - Caldara   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
Antonio Caldara (1670 - 1736) was born in Venice.
Though neither of the CD inserts says anything about other Stabat Mater compositions by Caldara, it is possible that this one is a first trial by Caldara, which he later developed into the longer version.
Collins 13202: Bach, Magnificat - Vivaldi, Gloria - Caldara, Stabat Mater
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 Antonio Caldara   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
According to The New Penguin Dictionary of Music, Antonio Caldara was an Italian composer who settled in Vienna, 1716, where he died; works include more than 70 operas, also oratorios, chamber music, church music.
[§] Antonio Caldara, ca 1670-1736 Joaz by Joyce Johnson
[§] Antonio Caldara: Essays on His Life and Times by Brian W. Pritchard
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