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The Early Music Show

Music: Classical: Early Music

Performance and news from the world of early music.

An exploration of early music, looking at early developments in musical performance and composition in Britain and abroad. UK only: please note that not all episodes are podcast.

The Early Music Show: Composer Portrait - Niccolo Jommelli

Composer Portrait - Niccolo Jommelli

21/05/2011

BBC Radio 3 - The Early Music Show, Composer Portrait - Niccolo Jommelli

Lucie Skeaping presents a profile of 18th-century composer Niccolo Jommelli.

Lucie Skeaping presents a profile of composer Niccolo Jommelli, whose operatic reforms in the mid-18th century made him a widely-regarded figure in his day.

Lucie Skeaping plays a selection of music by Niccolo Jommelli. Considered a pathfinder, steering music from the traditions of Baroque opera to the immediacy of Mozart's stage works, Jommelli's operatic reforms in the mid-eighteenth century made him a widely regarded figure in his day - ground-breaking and influential. His true significance is only now starting to be valued.

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