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Antonio Caldara (1670 or 1671 26 December 1736) was an Italian
Italy

Italy , officially the Italian Republic , is a country located on the Italian Peninsula in Southern Europe and on the two largest islands in the Mediterranean Sea, Sicily and Sardinia....
 Baroque
Baroque

In the the arts, the Baroque was a Western cultural Epoch , starting roughly at the beginning of the 17th century in Rome, Italy. It was exemplified by drama and grandeur in Baroque sculpture, Baroque painting, literature, Baroque dance, and Baroque music....
 composer
Composer

A composer is a person who creates music, usually in the medium of musical notation, for interpretation and performance. The level of distinction between composers and other musicians varies, which affects issues such as copyright and the deference given to individual interpretations of a particular piece of music....
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Caldara was born in Venice
Venice

Venice is a city in northern Italy, the capital city of the Italian regions Veneto, a population of 271,251 . Together with Padua, Italy, the city is included in the Padua-Venice Metropolitan Area ....
 (exact date unknown), the son of a violinist. He became a chorister at St Mark's in Venice, where he learned several instruments, probably under the instruction of Giovanni Legrenzi
Giovanni Legrenzi

Giovanni Legrenzi was an Italy composer of opera, vocal and instrumental music, and organist, of the Baroque music era. He was one of the most prominent composers in Venice in the late 17th century, and extremely influential on the development of late Baroque idioms across northern Italy....
. In 1699 he relocated to Mantua
Mantua

Mantua is a city in Lombardy, Italy and capital of the Province of Mantua of the same name.Mantua is surrounded on three sides by artificial lakes created during the 12th century....
, where he became maestro di cappella to the inept Charles IV, Duke of Mantua
Charles IV, Duke of Mantua

Charles IV, Duke of Mantua was the only child of Duke Charles III, Duke of Mantua of Mantua and Montferrat, and the last ruler of the Duchy of Mantua of the House of Gonzaga....
, a pensionary of France with a French wife, who took the French side in the War of the Spanish Succession
War of the Spanish Succession

War of the Spanish Succession was a war fought in 1701-1714, in which several European powers combined to stop a possible unification of the Kingdoms of Spain and France under a single Bourbon monarch, upsetting the European Balance of power in international relations....
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Antonio Caldara (1670 or 1671 26 December 1736) was an Italian
Italy

Italy , officially the Italian Republic , is a country located on the Italian Peninsula in Southern Europe and on the two largest islands in the Mediterranean Sea, Sicily and Sardinia....
 Baroque
Baroque

In the the arts, the Baroque was a Western cultural Epoch , starting roughly at the beginning of the 17th century in Rome, Italy. It was exemplified by drama and grandeur in Baroque sculpture, Baroque painting, literature, Baroque dance, and Baroque music....
 composer
Composer

A composer is a person who creates music, usually in the medium of musical notation, for interpretation and performance. The level of distinction between composers and other musicians varies, which affects issues such as copyright and the deference given to individual interpretations of a particular piece of music....
.

Caldara was born in Venice
Venice

Venice is a city in northern Italy, the capital city of the Italian regions Veneto, a population of 271,251 . Together with Padua, Italy, the city is included in the Padua-Venice Metropolitan Area ....
 (exact date unknown), the son of a violinist. He became a chorister at St Mark's in Venice, where he learned several instruments, probably under the instruction of Giovanni Legrenzi
Giovanni Legrenzi

Giovanni Legrenzi was an Italy composer of opera, vocal and instrumental music, and organist, of the Baroque music era. He was one of the most prominent composers in Venice in the late 17th century, and extremely influential on the development of late Baroque idioms across northern Italy....
. In 1699 he relocated to Mantua
Mantua

Mantua is a city in Lombardy, Italy and capital of the Province of Mantua of the same name.Mantua is surrounded on three sides by artificial lakes created during the 12th century....
, where he became maestro di cappella to the inept Charles IV, Duke of Mantua
Charles IV, Duke of Mantua

Charles IV, Duke of Mantua was the only child of Duke Charles III, Duke of Mantua of Mantua and Montferrat, and the last ruler of the Duchy of Mantua of the House of Gonzaga....
, a pensionary of France with a French wife, who took the French side in the War of the Spanish Succession
War of the Spanish Succession

War of the Spanish Succession was a war fought in 1701-1714, in which several European powers combined to stop a possible unification of the Kingdoms of Spain and France under a single Bourbon monarch, upsetting the European Balance of power in international relations....
. Caldara removed from Mantua in 1707, after the French were expelled from Italy, then moved on to Barcelona
Barcelona

Barcelona is the capital and most populous city of the Autonomous communities of Spain of Catalonia and the second largest city in Spain, with a population of 1,615,908 in 2008, while the population of the Metropolitan Area was 3,161,081....
 as chamber composer to Charles VI of Austria, the pretender to the Spanish throne who kept a royal court at Barcelona. There, he wrote some operas that are the first Italian operas performed at Spain. He moved on to Rome
Rome

Rome is the capital city of Italy and Lazio, and is Italy's largest and most populous city, with 2,724,347 residents in an urban area of some ....
, becoming maestro di cappella to Francesco Maria Marescotti Ruspoli, 1st Prince of Cerveteri
Francesco Maria Marescotti Ruspoli, 1st Prince of Cerveteri

Ruspoli#The first Prince of Cerveteri - Francesco Maria Marescotti Ruspoli was the ?th Marchese and 1st Principe di Cerveteri, 1st Marchese di Riano, Italy and 6th Conte di Vignanello, son of Alessandro Marescotti, 5th Conte di Vignanello and first wife Anna Maria dei Marchesi Corsini, and paternal grandson of Sforza Vicino Marescotti, 4th C...
. While there he wrote "La constanza in amor vince l'inganno" (Faithfulness in Love Defeats Treachery) for the public theatre at Macerata
Macerata

Macerata is a city in Italy, the capital of the province of Macerata in the Marche region.The centro storico is located on a hill between the Chienti River and Potenza River rivers....
. In 1716, he obtained a similar post in Vienna
Vienna

Vienna is the Capital of Republic of Austria and also one of the nine states of Austria. Vienna is Austria's primary city, with a population of about 1.7 million...
 to serve the Imperial Court, and there he remained until his death.

Caldara is best known as a composer of opera
Opera

Opera is an Performing arts in which singers and musicians perform a dramatic work which combines a text and a musical score. Opera is part of the Western classical music tradition....
s, cantata
Cantata

A cantata is a vocal music music composition with an musical instrument accompaniment and often containing more than one movement ....
s and oratorio
Oratorio

An oratorio is a large musical composition including an orchestra, a choir, and solo ists. The oratorio was somewhat modeled after the opera. Their similarities include the use of a choir, soloists, an ensemble, various distinguishable Fictional character, and arias....
s. Several of his works have libretti by Metastasio
Metastasio

Pietro Antonio Domenico Trapassi, better known by his pseudonym of Metastasio, was an Italy poet and librettist, considered the most important writer of opera seria libretti....
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Noted works

  • Maddalena ai piedi di Cristo (Oratorio, c. 1700)
  • Santo Stefano, primo Re d'Ungheria (Oratorio, 1713)
  • La Conversione di Clodoveo Re di Francia (Oratorio, 1715)
  • La Passione di Gesł Cristo Signor Nostro (Oratorio, 1716)
  • Il Re del dolore (Oratorio, 1722)
  • Sebben, crudele
    Sebben, crudele

    Sebben, crudele is an aria from Antonio Caldara's 1710 opera La constanza in amor vince l'inganno . Although the opera itself has been rarely performed in modern times, Sebben, crudele remains a popular concert aria....
     (Aria)
  • D'improvviso (Cantata)
  • Pur Dicesti, O Bocca Bella (Aria)
  • Alma Del Core (Aria)
  • Selve amiche (Aria)


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