Emanuele d astorga biography
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- Emanuele Gioacchino Cesare Rincon, baron of Astorga (20 March 1680 – 1757, by one report) was an Italian composer known mainly for his Stabat Mater.
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Astorga, Emanuele d’
About the composer
Emanuele d’Astorga (1680-1757) was born in Augusta, Sicily, Italy. He is without doubt the most intriguing composer. It is a fact that he was a baron, and that he, as an officer in the army, took part in crushing a Sicilian rebellion.
When he was near 40 years of age he married a fifteen years old girl, only to leave her with three children after seven years. But he had taken care of her financial independence. After that, he journeyed through all of Europe and it is not known exactly where and when he died.
Astorga was a self-made composer and never worked as a professional musician. He was well-known for his chamber cantatas. His life was a source of inspiration for many legends and stories. Not only a novel and a two-part biography were written about him, but even a complete opera “Astorga”, in which the hero loses his mind and comes to his senses only after hearing the music of his own Stabat Mater.
About the Stabat Mater
| Date: | ca. 1727 |
| Performers: | Soprano, alto, tenor, bass, mixed choir, stri
Born: Augusta, Sicily1680 Editions available on this site Astorga was one of the more colourful characters in early 18th century music, in fact his life has been used as the subject of novels, journals and even an opera by the 19th century composer Johann Joseph Abert, in which Astorga becomes mad and is brought back to sanity by hearing the first bars of his Stabat Mater. Born in Augusta, Sicily in 1693, part of a family which had acquired a barony in the early 17th century, Emanuele was well-educated as befitted a child of his rank. Due to an early display of music talent, his education also included tuition in music. In his early twenties Astorga left for Rome where he became part of the circle surrounding the Spanish papal ambassador, the Duke of Osseda during which time he met the poet Sebastiano Biancardi who later became his principal librettist. According to one story, when the composer and librettist went to Genoa they were robbed and, in order to raise funds wrote an opera Dafni. The story has it that the Habsburg claimant to the Spanish
Astorga, Emanuele, Baron d'1681-1736 Son of a Sicilian nobleman, who was beheaded for political reasons. His mother died at the same time from the shock of her husband's execution, and the boy was placed in the Convent of Astorga in Spain, by the Princess Orsini, maid of honor to the wife of Philip V. Here he completed his musical education which had been begun, probably under Scarlatti. When he left the convent he was given the title of Baron d'Astorga, through his patroness, and was sent on a diplomatic mission to the Court of Parma in 1704. Here he became involved in a love affair with the niece of the Duke of Parma and to break it off was sent by the Duke to Vienna in 1705. After this for years he led a life of travel and adventure, visiting England, Italy, Spain and Portugal and finally going to Bohemia where he died. Astorga's most important compositions are his great Stabat Mater for four voices; an opera, Dafni; and nearly one hundred beautiful cantatas. Copyright ©backaid.pages.dev 2025 |