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ANTONIO LOTTI (1667?-174o)

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Originally appearing in Volume V17, Page 22 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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ANTONIO See also:LOTTI (1667?-174o)  , See also:Italian musical composer, was the son of Matteo See also:Lotti, Kapellmeister to the See also:court of See also:Hanover . He was See also:born, however, at See also:Venice and as a See also:pupil of Legrenzi . He entered the See also:Doge's See also:chapel as a boy, and in 1689 was engaged as an See also:alto See also:singer, succeeding later to the posts of See also:deputy organist (1690), second organist (1692), first organist (1704), and, finally, in 1736 See also:Maestro di Cappella at St See also:Mark's See also:church . He was also a composer of operas, and having attracted the See also:interest of the See also:crown See also:prince of See also:Saxony during his visit to Venice in 1712, he was invited to See also:Dresden, where he went in 1717 . After producing three operas there he was obliged to return to his duties at Venice in 1719 . He died on the 5th of See also:January 1740 . Like many other Venetian composers he wrote operas for See also:Vienna, and enjoyed a considerable reputation outside See also:Italy . A See also:volume of madrigals published in 1705 contains the famous In una See also:siege ombrosa, passed off by See also:Bononcini as his own in See also:London . Another is quoted by See also:Martini in his Saggio di Contra ppunto . Among his pupils were See also:Alberti, Bassani, See also:Galuppi, Gasparini and See also:Marcello . See also:Burney justly praises his church See also:music, which is severe in See also:style, but none the less See also:modern in its See also:grace and pathos . A See also:fine setting of the See also:Dies Irae is in the Imperial Library at Vienna, and some of his masses have been printed in the collections of Proske and See also:Luck .

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