Giovanni Paisiello (1740-1816) - Il Maestro ed'i sui due Scolari

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Composer: Giovanni Paisiello (1740-1816)
Work: Cantata 'Il Maestro ed'i sui due Scolari'
Performers: László Margit (soprano); Barlay Zsuzsa (alt); Dene József (bass); Budapest Madrigal Chor; Hungarian State Orchestra; Ferenc Szekeres (conductor)

Painting: Louis-Léopold Boilly (1761-1845) - The Poor Cat (1832)

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Giovanni Paisiello
(Taranto, 9 May 1740 - Napoli, 5 June 1816)

Italian composer. Following his earliest training at a local Jesuit school, he entered the Conservatorio di Sant’Onofrio in Naples in 1754, where he studied under Francesco Durante and Girolamo Abos. During this period he composed smaller sacred works and a few intermezzos, but in 1763 he was employed by Giuseppe Carafa through whom he began to obtain commissions from theatres throughout Italy. His first major successes in Bologna, La Pupilla and Il mondo al Rovescio, were followed by others in Pavia, Venice, Naples, and Rome. In 1776 his international reputation led Catherine II of Russia to offer him a contract to come to St. Petersburg, where he remained until 1784. Here he wrote his most famous work, Il barbiere di Siviglia. His constant jealousy of colleagues and his feeling of being restricted in his own work led him to return to Naples to accept a position at the court of Ferdinand IV; on his way he had another success in Vienna with Il re Teodoro. After 1787 he also began receiving numerous commissions for sacred music. In 1797 he was asked by Napoleon to come to Paris as maître de chapelle, but despite the emperor’s patronage he had little success apart from some reorganization of the court musical establishment. His 1803 opera Proserpine—the only one in French and written according to the reforms of Christoph Willibald von Gluck—was a failure, and he returned to Naples. With the Bourbon restoration in 1815 his own position was compromised, and the death of his wife undermined his health.