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4 unusual facts about Vicente Martín y Soler


Il burbero di buon cuore

Il burbero di buon cuore (The Good-Hearted Curmudgeon) is a opera dramma giocoso in two acts by Vicente Martín y Soler.

La villanella rapita

A pasticcio with the same title, with some music by Bianchi as well as Paisiello, Guglielmi, Giacomo Gotifredo Ferrari, Sarti and Soler was performed at Théâtre Feydeau in Paris on 5 June 1789.

Una cosa rara

Una cosa rara, ossia Bellezza ed onestà (A Rare Thing, or Beauty and Honesty) is an opera by the composer Vicente Martín y Soler.

Vicente Martín y Soler

He is credited with introducing, in Una cosa rara, the waltz to Vienna; and a melody from the same work is quoted by Mozart in the banquet scene in Act 2 of Don Giovanni (1787).



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