Pedro Antonio Avondano
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Pedro Antonio Avondano was an Italian composer at the Portuguese court. He is mainly noted, like Domenico Scarlatti
Domenico Scarlatti
Giuseppe Domenico Scarlatti was an Italian composer who spent much of his life in the service of the Portuguese and Spanish royal families. He is classified as a Baroque composer chronologically, although his music was influential in the development of the Classical style...

 for harpsichord sonatas and sacred music.

Works, editions and recordings

  • comic opera Il mondo della luna
  • oratorio Il voto di Jefte
  • oratorio Adamo ed Eva
  • sacred works, inc. Tantum ergo
  • sinfonie

Editions
  • Forty-nine Lisbon minuets by Pedro Antonio Avondano ed. Mary Farrar Hatchette, Tulane University of Louisiana, 1971 - 334 pages.

Recordings
  • Avondano. Sonata in C major. Sousa Carvalho. Toccata in G minor, Allegro in D major. Ruggero Gerlin (harpsichord). Philips © 835769I.Y LP, 1967
  • Harpsichord works. Rosana Lanzelotte. Portugaler, 2006.


Some of Avondano's works were revived at the Festival d'Ambronay in 2006.

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