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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: Giovanni Paisiello (1740-1816)

Composer of the Week: Giovanni Paisiello (1740-1816): Episode 4

Giovanni Paisiello (1740-1816)

Episode 4

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Donald Macleod introduces two new operas written after Paisiello's return to Naples.

Donald Macleod introduces two new operas Paisiello wrote after his return to Naples in 1784 - La Daunia Felice and I Giuochi d'Agrigento.

In 1784, after eight years in Russia, Paisiello was at long last offered an appointment back in Naples, as court composer of dramatic music. On his way back home, Paisiello stopped off in Vienna, where he composed the opera 'Il re Teodoro a Venezia' for another great supporter of his, Emperor Joseph II. Donald introduces the overture from this popular work, an excerpt from 'I giuochi d'Agrigento', written for the inauguration of La Fenice Opera House in Venice, part of an opera to celebrate a major dynastic wedding - 'La Daunia felice', and, by way of stark contrast, the pared-down beauty of Paisiello's sacred work 'Christus', written for Holy Week in 1794.

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Donald Macleod explores the life and music of Giovanni Paisiello

Donald Macleod explores the life and music of Giovanni Paisiello, the Italian composer whose comic operas were the toast of some of the greatest world leaders in their time

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