Pietro Domenico Paradisi (1707-1791)
- Sonata (IX, La minore) per il Cembalo (1754)
Performers: Luciano Sgrizzi (1910-1994, harpsichord)
Further info: Huit Sonates Pour Clavecin
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Italian composer and teacher. A student of Nicola Porpora in Naples,
little is known about his early life. The first documented performance
of his music was of the opera 'Alessandro in Persia' (1738). The poor
reception of this work marked the beginning of a generally unsuccessful
career as a composer for the stage. During the 1739-40 season he moved
to Venice, where he was employed by the Conservatorio dei Mendicanti. In
1746 he settled in London where his series of operatic failures
continued in January of 1747, when his setting of Vanneschi’s Fetonte
encountered negative reaction during its nine performances at the King’s
Theatre. Charles Burney described the arias as ‘ill-phrased’ and
lacking in ‘estro or grace’. Although he continued to supply arias for
pasticcio productions at the King’s Theatre, he never met with success
as a composer of opera. He achieved some renown in England, however, as a
teacher of harpsichord and composition. His most distinguished student
was the elder Thomas Linley. By 1770 he had returned to Italy, where he
went into retirement. As a composer, his works include six operas, two
concertos for keyboard, several symphonies, and a set of '12 Sonate di
gravicembalo' (1754) that were considered some of the best of the time
when published in London.
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