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Composer of the Week

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An informative guide to composers' lives and their music.

An informative and accessible guide to composers' lives and their music.

Composer of the Week: Antonio Salieri (1750-1825)

Composer of the Week: Antonio Salieri (1750-1825): Episode 2

Antonio Salieri (1750-1825)

Episode 2

BBC Radio 3 - Composer of the Week, Antonio Salieri (1750-1825), Episode 2

Donald Macleod explores Salieri's work as composer for the Imperial Chamber in Vienna.

Donald Macleod charts Salieri's early years in Vienna, focusing on his position as composer for the Imperial Chamber and his operatic works.

In the second programme Donald Macleod surveys Salieri's beginnings as a composer in Vienna. Whilst employed as Composer for the Imperial Chamber, Salieri would have been responsible for writing suitable chamber music, and we hear the Cassazione that was likely to have been performed during royal banquets. Salieri, working with his mentor Gassmann at Vienna's opera house, was also offered the opportunity to compose an opera. Opera was to be the arena in which he made his biggest mark, and we hear two extracts from his early works Armida, and La fiera di Venezia.

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Donald Macleod surveys the life and music of Antonio Salieri

Donald Macleod surveys the life and music of Antonio Salieri, a celebrated and highly influential composer of his day, but who is remembered for supposedly poisoning Mozart

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