Musical life in Venice in the 1700s (composers: Albinoni, Lotti, Marcello, Handel, Hasse, Porpora, Galuppi ...)

Birth and family Childhood, priesthood, early musical training Violin teacher The melodrama Mantua and the 4 Seasons The Teatro alla Moda by Benedetto Marcello Success in Rome and in Europe Anna and Paolina Giraud The last decade The instrumental works published in life Musical life in Venice in the 1700s (composers: Albinoni, Lotti, Marcello, Handel, Hasse, Porpora, Galuppi ...) Musical life in Venice in the 1700s (the places: the Basilica, the Churches, the Theaters, the Schools ...)

Even in the eighteenth century Venice was a great tourist attraction, and even then the temptation to take home a memory of the wonders seen in the streets and canals, and listened to in the Academies or in the Theaters was strong. Just as the growing demand for pictorial "views" stimulated the development of the genre (Guardi, Canaletto ...), so in music the genres most in demand abroad, such as the "Concerto" or Melodrama, determined a decisive direction in choices of musical composition.

The fertile soil of music in Venice was nourished by the celebratory function assigned to it by the Serenissima Republic and by the prestigious positions that derived from it, first of all that of Maestro di Cappella di San Marco, as well as by the many public and private performances. Commoners and patricians from Venice and the Serenissima, tourists on the "grand tour", the inevitable trip to Italy of the wealthiest Europeans, constituted an ever attentive audience able to determine the fortune or the eclipse of an artist. In less than 50 years the composers of a list that today appears almost impossible are present or active in Venice: Antonio Lotti, Baldassare Galuppi, Antonio Caldara, Giovanni Legrenzi, the brothers Alessandro and Benedetto Marcello, Niccolò Jommelli, Nicola Porpora, Tomaso Albinoni, Giuseppe Tartini, Domenico Cimarosa, George Friedrich Haendel, Alessandro and Domenico Scarlatti, Johann Joachim Quantz, Johann Adolphe Hasse, Leonardo Leo, and Mozart, even if only for a short passage ...