#Paolo Lorenzani

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Paolo Lorenzani (1640-1713) - Dialogue entre Jesus et l'Ame a 5 voix avec simphonie

Choir: Concert Spirituel Chorus, Conductor: Herve Niquet

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January 05 in Music History

1596 Birth of English choir director and composer Henry Lawes in Dinton, Whiltshire. 

1640 Birth of Italian composer Paolo Lorenzani in Rome. 

1649 FP of Francesco Cavalli's Opera l Giasone at Teatro Cassiano, in Venice.

1677 FP of Lully's opera Isis in Paris.

1681 Italian composer Giovanni Legrenzi takes position of music director at St. Mark's in Venice. 

1690 FP of Alessandro Scarlatti's opera La Statira in Teatro Tordinona, Rome.

1740 Death and 1667 Birth of Italian composer Antonio Lotti in Venice. 

1745 FP of Handel's musical drama Hercules.

1786 Birth of German conductor, organist and composer Johann Schneider in Alt-Waltersdorf 1857 Birth of American bass David Bispham in Philadelphia. 

1868 Birth of American bariton and coach Oscar Saenger in Brooklyn, N Y. 

1868 FP of final version of Max Bruch's Violin Concerto in g, Op. 26 with Karl Martin Rheintahler conducting and Joseph Joachim soloist, in Bremen.

1871 Birth of American composer Frederick Shepherd Converse in Newton MA. 

1872 Birth of tenor Otakar Marak in Ostrihom, 

1873 Birth of tenor Karl Jorn in Riga, Latvia. 

1875 Birth of English baritone and coach Alberto Garcia in London. 

1875 Opening of the Palais Garnier, Paris Opera building.

1880 Birth of Russian composer and pianist Nikolai Medtner in Moscow.

1883 FP of Barbieri's "De Gitafe al paraiso" in Madrid. 1884 FP of Gilbert and Sullivan's operetta Princess Ida in London. 

1888 Death of Austrian composer and pianist Henri Herz in Paris. 

1891 Death of American soprano Emma Abbott. 

1894 Birth of tenor Gaston Micheletti in Tavaco, 

1904 Birth of Austrian born American violinist Erica Morini in Vienna. 

1904 Birth of mezzo-soprano Marie Pixova in Prague. 

1915 Birth of soprano Uta Graf.

1915 Death of mezzo-soprano Jeanne Gerville-Reache.

1917 Birth of English composer Reginald Smith Brindle.

1920 Birth of Italian pianist Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli in Brescia. 

1924 Birth of American soprano Doris Jung in Centralia, Illinois. 

1929 Birth of Italian conductor and composer Romulus Franceschini.

1930 Birth of American composer Frederick Tillis 

1930 Birth of Hungarian born British conductor Laszlo Heltay. 1931 Birth of Austrian pianist Alfred Brendel in Wiesenburg, Moravia. 

1932 FP of Marurice Ravel's Piano Concerto in D for the left hand, commissioned by Paul Wittgenstein, in Vienna. 

1941 FP of Mark Blitzstein's opera No for an Answer in NYC.

1942 Birth of Italian pianist Maurizio Pollini in Milan. 

1949 Birth of soprano Wilhemenia Fernandez. 

1949 FP of Henry Cowell's Symphony No. 5. in Washington, D. C.

1949 FP of Morton Gould's Fall River Legend Symphonic Suite with Pierre Monteux conducting SF Sym.

1953 American debut of pianist-conductor Philippe Entremont. 

1954 Birth of  mezzo-soprano Janine Roebuck in Barnsley. 

1957 Birth of American composer, conductor and violinist Roger Zahab in Akron, OH. 

1959 FP of John Cage's Fontana Mix in NYC.

1961 FP of Easley Blackwood's Symphony No. 2 A commissioned by music publisher G. Schirmer to celebrate their centenary, in Cleveland.

1962 Birth of American composer Joe Monzo in Philadelphia, PA. 

1962 FP of Ross Lee Finney's Piano Quintet No. 2, in Los Angeles, CA.

1967 Death of Austrian soprano Luise Helletsgruber 

1970 Birth of American composer Daniel Felsenfeld. 

1970 Death of Catalan-born British composer Roberto Gerhard, at age 73, in Cambridge, England. 

1973 FP of Pierre Boulez' Explosante-Fixe in NYC. 

1974 Death of Russian pianist Lev Oborin in Moscow, age 66. 

1974 Death of baritone Wolfgang Anheisser. 

1976 Death of French composer Georges Mignot in Levallois, suburban Paris. 

1983 Death of bass Tugomir Franc.

1992 Death of Columbian composer Hans Federico Neuman in Barranquilla.  2016 Death of French composer and conductor Pierre Boulez

[lesser-known-composers]

Paolo Lorenzani (1640-1713) - Litanies a la Vierge (Litany of Our Lady)

Choir: Concert Spirituel Chorus, Conductor: Herve Niquet

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Paolo Lorenzani (1640-1713) - Motet pour les confesseurs a voix avec simphonie (Motet for the Confessors)

Choir: Concert Spirituel Chorus, Conductor: Herve Niquet

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Paolo Lorenzani (1640-1713) - O quam suavis est, Élévation à 3 dessus et basse continue.

Dessus I : Estelle Béréau, Andréanne Paquin, Macha Lemaître

Dessus II: Anne-Marie Beaudette, Béatrice Gobin, Sandrine Buendia

Bas-dessus: Jeanne-Sarah Deledicq, Stéphanie Leclercq, Elise Bédènes

Basse continue: Jérôme Vidaller (basse de violon), Thibault Roussel (théorbe), Pierre Gallon (orgue positif), Myrrha Principiano (clavecin)

Direction: Martin Robidoux

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Paolo Lorenzani (1640-1713)

[lesser-known-composers]

Paolo Lorenzani - Litanies a la Vierge

Choir: Concert Spirituel Chorus Conductor: Herve Niquet

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Paolo Lorenzani (1640-1713)

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Paolo Lorenzani - Nicandro e Fileno, Acte 2: Scene 1 Aria: Nel mio core amante ·

Les Boréades de Montréal · Philippe Gagné · Francis Colpron

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Paolo Lorenzani - "E che porti nei begl'occhi" -

Astrea Amaduzzi, soprano - Walter D'Arcangelo, organo -

Live performance - Ferrara, 3 June 2005