Nicola Sala ( Italian: Nicola Sala ; April 7, 1713 , Tokko-Caudio , Kingdom of Naples - August 31, 1801 , Naples , Kingdom of Naples) - Italian composer and music teacher and theorist . His name is the Conservatory in Benevento [1] .
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| Full name | Nikola Sala |
| Date of Birth | April 7, 1713 |
| Place of Birth | Tocco Caudio , Kingdom of Naples |
| Date of death | August 31, 1801 (88 years old) |
| Place of death | Naples , Kingdom of Naples |
| A country |  Kingdom of neapolitan |
| Professions | composer , musicologist |
| Genres | classical music |
Biography
Nicola Sala was born in Tocco-Caudio, in the Kingdom of Naples, on April 7, 1713. From 1732 to 1740 he studied at the Pieta dei Turkini Conservatory in Naples with Nicola Fago and Leonardo Leo . While studying, he wrote his first opera Vologez ( Italian: Vologeso ) based on the libretto by Apostolo Zeno , which was staged in Rome in 1737. In 1745 he was taken in the position of bandmaster at the Royal Chapel in Naples. In the 1760s he composed several more operas. All of them were staged at the San Carlo Theater . The opera Zenobia ( Italian: La Zenobia ) based on the libretto by Pietro Metastasio , which premiered in 1761, was especially successful with viewers and critics.
In 1787, he got the second maestro’s place at the Pieta dei Turkini Conservatory, where he had already worked for almost half a century as a teacher, and from 1793 to October 11, 1799 he took the place of the first maestro. Nikola Sala was one of the most famous music teachers of his time. His students were Gaspare Spontini , Ferdinando Orlandi , Ambrogio Minoya , Luigi Caruso , Giacomo Tritto and Valentino Fioravanti . During his teaching career, he wrote several textbooks, including The Practical Rules of Counterpoint ( Italian: Regole del contrappunto pratico ), published in Naples in 1794.
Nicola Sala died in Naples on August 31, 1801.
Creative heritage
The composer's creative heritage includes 4 operas, several cantatas and an oratorio, works of church and chamber music, as well as books on music theory . [2]
Notes
- ↑ Nicola Sala (Italian) (unavailable link) . Conservatorio di Nicola Sala. Archived December 26, 2014.
- ↑ Libretti e stampa di Nicola Sala (Italian) . Italian Opera.
Links
- Sala, Nicola . Treccani.it. - Enciclopedia on-line. (ital.)