Stradella
Americannoun
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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
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
This lunchtime concert, sponsored by the Gothic Early Music Scene, features sacred music from Stradella and other composers in the artistic circles of Bernini and Queen Christina in 17th-century Rome.
From New York Times • Mar. 27, 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
It is a long distance from the Palazzo Altieri to the Lateran, and the Canons sent one of their coaches to convey Stradella to the church.
From Stradella by Crawford, F. Marion (Francis Marion)
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