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Leo Leonardo

 
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Leonardo Leo (1694 - 1744)        Leonardo Leo      

 
 
         BIOGRAPHY
 
Italian composer. His comic operas (often in Neapolitan dialect) were ranked with those of Giovanni Pergolesi and had a great influence on later Italian masters of the genre. He also wrote much church music. Niccolò Piccinni and Niccolò Jommelli were among his pupils.
 

He was a pupil of Francesco Provenzale and Nicola Fago at the Conservatorio della Pietà dei Turchini, Naples, 1709-13, where his first oratorio was performed in 1712. Appointed supernumerary organist to the court at Naples in 1713, he rose to become maestro di cappella just before his death. He taught at the Conservatorio della Pietà from 1715 (appointed primo maestro in 1741) and the Conservatorio S Onofrio from 1725 (appointed primo maestro in 1739).

Works

Opera

Sofonisba (1718), Lucio Papirio, Caio Gracco (1720), La 'mpeca scoperta (in Neapolitan dialect, 1723), Timocrate, Il trionfo di Camilla, La semmeglianza di chi l'ha fatta, Il Cid, Catone in Utica (1729), La clemenza di Tito (1735), Demofoonte, Farnace (1736), Siface, Ciro riconosciuto, L'amico traditore, La simpatia del sangue, L'Olimpiade (1737), Vologeso, Amor vuol sofferenza (La finta Frascatana, 1739), Achille in Sciro (1740), Scipione nelle Spagne (1740), Il fantastico (Il nuovo Don Chisciotte, after Cervantes, 1743), and about 40 others.

 

Other

oratorios Il trionfo della castità di S Alessio (1713), Dalla morte alla vita (1722), La morte di Abele, S Elena al Calvario (1734), S Francesco di Paolo nel deserto, and others; Masses, motets, psalms, and other church music; concerto for four violins, six cello concertos; harpsichord pieces.
 
 
 
 
 

 
 
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Leo    Choir  Reminiscere miserationum  Christophe Roussett  Les Talens Lyriques          

Leo    Choir  Salve Regina Christophe Roussett       Les Talens Lyriques          

Leo    Choir  Judica me Deus    Christophe Roussett          Les Talens Lyriques          

Leo    Choir  Lamentations of Jeremiah Lesson  I Christophe Roussett         Les Talens Lyriques           

Leo    Choir  Lamentations of Jeremiah Lesson  II Christophe Roussett       Les Talens Lyriques           

Leo    Choir  Lamentations of Jeremiah Lesson  III Christophe Roussett     Les Talens Lyriques           

Leo    Cello,orchestr Concerto in D major   Anner Bylsma  Jeanne Lamon      Tafelmusik Baroq Orch           

Leo    Cello,orchestr Concerto in F minor    Anner Bylsma  Jeanne Lamon      Tafelmusik Baroq Orch           

Leo    Cello,orchestr Concerto  in A major  Anner Bylsma   Jeanne Lamon     Tafelmusik Baroq Orch           

Leo    Cello,orchestr Concerto in D minor   Anner Bylsma  Jeanne Lamon      Tafelmusik Baroq Orch           

Leo    Cello,orchestr  Concerto in A major  Anner Bylsma  Jeanne Lamon      Tafelmusik Baroq Orch           

Leo    Cello,orchestr Sinfonia concertante in C minor    Anner Bylsma  Jeanne Lamon Tafelmusik Baroq Orch  

LEO L Choir  Misereris omnium,Domine  Christophe Roussett   Les Talens Lyriques

 

 
 
  
 
 
 

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