Tempeste funeste

(Other)

Biblioteca del Conservatorio di musica S. Pietro a Majella - Napoli

Aria per 2 Soprani, con 2 trombe, archi e basso continuo

Trascrizione a cura di Antonio Frigé

8 pag.

ISBN 978-88-98342-89-1

Alessandro Scarlatti (2nd May 1660 – 24th October 1725) is considered the founder of the Neapolitan opera. He was born in Palermo, and became famous in Rome for his operas and chamber cantatas. He spent most of his life beetween Naples, where he became Maestro di Cappella to the viceroy in february 1684, and Rome, where Cardinale Ottoboni made him his Maestro di Cappella, and procured him a similar at the Basilica di Santa Maria Maggiore in 1703. He died in Naples 1725.
The large number of autograph and copies of his vocal compositions of Scarlatti include several arias. The vast majority is taken from taken from operas and chamber cantatas but some of them are isolated wotks of which we do not really know the origin.
The aria “Tempeste funeste” is taken from the opera “Il prigioniero fortunato”, (Act I, 2) an opera performed in Naples in 1698, whose manuscript is held by the Library of the Conservatorium “S.Pietro a Maiella” of Naples...