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Stradella

American  
[strah-del-lah] / strɑˈdɛl lɑ /

noun

  1. Alessandro 1645?–82?, Italian composer.


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César Franck and others got a kick out of Alessandro Stradella, the Baroque opera composer who attempted to embezzle the Roman Catholic Church.

From Los Angeles Times • May 20, 2025

Advertisement Mark J. Rosenbaum, a lawyer for the shell company that owns 864 Stradella, said that the flooding onto the Sarbonne property was due to rain, and that the legal dispute had been resolved.

From New York Times • Dec. 14, 2015

The familiar – Handel, Haydn, Mozart — mingled with the likes of Orazio Vecchi, Giaches de Wert and Domenico Natale Sarro, and Alessandro Stradella loomed large.

From New York Times • Apr. 24, 2015

Elsewhere — in sonatas by Fontana, Castello, Marini and Stradella — Mr. Griffin and Christine Gummere, the cellist, shared the spotlight, producing finely balanced contrapuntal dialogues.

From New York Times • Jan. 4, 2011

If Stradella had dared to glance at the kindly face just then, he would certainly have noticed how the dark eyes brightened, and almost twinkled.

From Stradella by Crawford, F. Marion (Francis Marion)

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