biography
| name: |
Stradella, Alessandro
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pronunciation:
[stradela]
| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1642–82)
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| biography:
| Composer, born in Monfestino, C Italy. One of the finest composers of chamber music, he wrote more than 200 cantatas, notably the Christmas Cantata. Legend has it that he eloped with the fiancée of a Venetian senator, who sent assassins to murder him in 1677. Documents show that he was indeed murdered in 1682. Numerous operas and at least one novel (Stradella, by Marion Crawford, 1909) have grown out of his legendary life, little of which is backed up by any real evidence. |
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