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Stradella

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[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 program features excerpts from Handel’s “Trionfo del tempo e del disinganno” and Vivaldi’s “Orlando Furioso,” as well as selections by Haydn, Mozart, Stradella, Cimarosa and Porpora.

From New York Times ● Apr. 16, 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

It was not that Stradella doubted how it would be received, if he spoke it when Pina was out of the room, nor was Ortensia not eager for it long before it came.

From Stradella by F. Marion (Francis Marion) Crawford

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