Niccolò Jommelli

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Niccolò Jommelli was an 18th-century Italian composer best known for his operas and sacred music, which played a significant role in the development of opera seria.

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Niccolò Jommelli canonical 8
Jommelli 1

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Predicate Object
instanceOf composer
human
opera composer
burialPlace Aversa
countryOfCitizenship Italy
dateOfBirth 1714-09-10
dateOfDeath 1774-08-25
employer Duke of Württemberg
ethnicGroup Italian
familyName Jommelli
linked to: Niccolò Jommelli
fieldOfWork opera composition
sacred composition
genre church music
opera seria
oratorio
sacred music
givenName Niccolò
influenced development of opera seria
influencedBy Johann Adolf Hasse
Neapolitan school of opera
languageOfWorkOrName Italian
movement Classical period
galant style
name Niccolò Jommelli
notableAchievement reformed opera seria with greater role for orchestra and chorus
notableWork Didone abbandonata
Fetonte
Ifigenia in Aulide
Ifigenia in Tauride
linked to: Iphigenia in Tauris

Il Vologeso
La Betulia liberata
Miserere
Requiem in E-flat major
occupation Kapellmeister
composer
placeOfBirth Aversa
Kingdom of Naples
placeOfDeath Aversa
positionHeld Kapellmeister at the court of Württemberg in Stuttgart
religion Catholicism
linked to: Roman Catholicism
sexOrGender male
significantEvent appointed Kapellmeister in Stuttgart in 1753
returned permanently to Italy in the 1760s
workLocation Ludwigsburg
Naples
Rome
Stuttgart

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Niccolò notableBearer Niccolò Jommelli
Didone abbandonata notableComposerSetting Niccolò Jommelli
Olimpiade widelySetToMusicBy Niccolò Jommelli
La clemenza di Tito notableSettingBy Niccolò Jommelli
Il re pastore setToMusicBy Niccolò Jommelli
Demetrio setToMusicBy Niccolò Jommelli
Niccolò Jommelli name Niccolò Jommelli
Niccolò Jommelli familyName Jommelli
linked to: Niccolò Jommelli
Christian Cannabich studentOf Niccolò Jommelli