12 Facts About Alessandro Stradella

Antonio Alessandro Boncompagno Stradella was an Italian composer of the middle Baroque period.

Alessandro Stradella enjoyed a dazzling career as a freelance composer, writing on commission, and collaborating with distinguished poets, producing over three hundred works in a variety of genres.

Alessandro Stradella was educated at Rome, and was already making a name for himself as a composer at the age of 24.

Contarini followed and instructed the Archbishop that Uffele and Stradella must marry or that Uffele must take the veil.

Alessandro Stradella survived and the two assassins took asylum with the French ambassador.

In 1678 Alessandro Stradella fled to Genoa, where he met again with Lonati.

Alessandro Stradella was paid to compose operas performed at Falcone Theatre and music for the local nobility.

Alessandro Stradella was an extremely influential composer at the time, though his fame was eclipsed in the next century by Corelli, Vivaldi and others.

Alessandro Stradella wrote at least six baroque operas including a full-length comic opera Il Trespolo tutore.

Alessandro Stradella wrote more than 170 cantatas, at least one of which was based on a poem by Sebastiano Baldini, and six oratorios.

Alessandro Stradella composed 27 separate instrumental pieces, most for strings and basso continuo, and typically in the sonata da chiesa format.

Alessandro Stradella wrote two cantatas for the regent of Savoy, Se del pianeta ardente and Sciogliete i dolci nodi.