Domenico Auletta (1723-1753)
- Concerto (sol minore) di Cembalo
Performers: Ruggero Gеrlin (1899-1983, clavecin); Ensemble orchestral de L’Oiseau-Lyre;
Louis de Fromеnt (1921-1994, conductor)
Further info: Four Concertos of the Neapolitan School
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Italian composer and organist. Son of Pietro Auletta (c.1698-1771), he
was active in Naples as a composer of sacred music, but nothing is known
of any appointments he may have held. Domenico's three sons were also
musicians: Raffaele Auletta (1742-1768), composer of a motet 'Alto
Olimpo triumfate', of whose life nothing is known; Ferdinando Auletta, a
singer, who studied at the Conservatorio della Pietà dei Turchini,
1759-69, with Nicola Fago and Pasquale Cafaro; and the younger Domenico
Auletta (?-1796), who was appointed in November 1779, with Domenico
Cimarosa, ‘supernumerary’ organist without salary in the royal chapel in
Naples and in 1796 second organist (Cimarosa having been promoted to
first). The homonymy between father and son poses problems of
attribution, especially as regards undated works.
