- Nicola Sala
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Nicola Sala (April 7, 1713 – August 31, 1801) was an Italian composer and music theorist.
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Biography
Sala was born in Tocco Caudio. He studied music in Naples at Conservatorio della Pietà dei Turchini from 1732 to 1740 under Nicola Fago and Leonardo Leo. Later, he became the teacher and from 1787 was director of the conservatory. One of his pupils was Ferdinando Orlandi. He died in Naples.
Selected works
Operas
- Vologeso (opera seria, libretto by Apostolo Zeno, 1737, Rome)
- La Zenobia (opera seria, libretto by Pietro Metastasio, 1761, Naples)
- Demetrio (opera seria, libretto by Pietro Metastasio, 1762, Naples)
- Merope (opera seria, libretto by Apostolo Zeno, 1769, Naples)
Other musical works
- Giove, Pallade, Apollo (cantata, 1763, Naples)
- Il giudizio d'Apollo (serenade, libretto by Giovanni Fenizia, 1768, Naples)
- Erto, Ebone, Arminio (cantata, 1769, Naples)
- La bella eroina (prologue, 1769, Naples)
- Varie aria
- Judith seu Bethuliae liberatio-Giuditta ossia La Betulia liberata (oratorio, libretto by anonymous author, 2007, Benevento)
Theoretical works
- Regole del contrappunto pratico (1794, Naples)
- Principi di contrappunto
- Elementi per ben suonare il cembalo
- Disposizione a tre per introduzione alle fughe di tre parti
- Il modo di disporre a tre sopra la scala diatonica
- Disposizioni imitate a soggetto e contrasoggetto
- Fughe con soggetto e contrasoggetto a suono plagale
References
Categories:- 1713 births
- 1801 deaths
- Italian composers
- Opera composers
- Opera biography stubs
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