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BENEDETTO MARCELLO (1686-1739)

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Originally appearing in Volume V17, Page 685 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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MARCELLO (1686-1739)  , - See also:Italian musical composer, was See also:born in 1686, either on the 31st of See also:July or on the 1st of See also:August . He was of See also:noble See also:family (in his compositions he is frequently described as "Patrizio Veneto "), and although a See also:pupil of See also:Lotti and Gasparini, was intended by his See also:father to devote himself to the See also:law . In 1711 he was a member of the See also:Council of See also:Forty, and in 1730 went to See also:Pola as Provveditore . His See also:health having been impaired by the See also:climate of See also:Istria, he retired after eight years to See also:Brescia in the capacity of Camerlengo, and died there on the 24th of July 1739 . See also:Marcello is best remembered by his Estro poetico-armonico (See also:Venice, 1724–1727), a musical setting for voices and strings of the first fifty See also:Psalms, as paraphrased in Italian by G . See also:Giustiniani . They were much admired by See also:Charles Avison, who with See also:John See also:Garth brought out an edition with See also:English words (See also:London, 1757) . Some extracts are to be found in See also:Hawkins's See also:History of See also:Music . His other See also:works are chiefly cantatas, either for one See also:voice or several; the library of the See also:Brussels See also:conservatoire possesses some interesting volumes of chamber-cantatas composed for his See also:mistress . Although he produced an See also:opera, La Fede riconosciuta, at See also:Vicenza in 1702, he had little sympathy with this See also:form of See also:composition, and vented his opinions on the See also:state of musical See also:drama at the See also:time in the satirical pamphlet Il Teatro ally moda, published anonymously in Venice in 1720 . This little See also:work, which was frequently reprinted, is not only extremely amusing, but is also most valuable as a contribution to the history of opera . A See also:catalogue of his works is given in Monatshefte See also:fur Musikgeschichte, vol. See also:xxiii .

(1891) .

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