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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instanceOf composer
human
opera composer
burialPlace Aversa NERFINISHED
countryOfCitizenship Italy
dateOfBirth 1714-09-10
dateOfDeath 1774-08-25
employer Duke of Württemberg NERFINISHED
ethnicGroup Italian
familyName Jommelli NERFINISHED
fieldOfWork opera composition
sacred composition
genre church music
opera seria
oratorio
sacred music
givenName Niccolò NERFINISHED
influenced development of opera seria
influencedBy Johann Adolf Hasse NERFINISHED
Neapolitan school of opera NERFINISHED
languageOfWorkOrName Italian
movement Classical period
galant style
name Niccolò Jommelli NERFINISHED
notableAchievement reformed opera seria with greater role for orchestra and chorus
notableWork Didone abbandonata NERFINISHED
Fetonte NERFINISHED
Ifigenia in Aulide NERFINISHED
Ifigenia in Tauride NERFINISHED
Il Vologeso NERFINISHED
La Betulia liberata NERFINISHED
Miserere NERFINISHED
Requiem in E-flat major NERFINISHED
occupation Kapellmeister
composer
placeOfBirth Aversa NERFINISHED
Kingdom of Naples NERFINISHED
placeOfDeath Aversa NERFINISHED
positionHeld Kapellmeister at the court of Württemberg in Stuttgart
religion Roman Catholicism
surface form: Catholicism
sexOrGender male
significantEvent appointed Kapellmeister in Stuttgart in 1753
returned permanently to Italy in the 1760s
workLocation Ludwigsburg NERFINISHED
Naples NERFINISHED
Rome
Stuttgart NERFINISHED

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