Antonio Salieri - Ouvertures

Antonio Salieri

 (18 August 1750 – 7 May 1825) was an Italian classical composer, conductor, and teacher.

He was born in Legnago, south of Verona, in the Republic of Venice, and spent his adult life and career as a subject of the Habsburg Monarchy.  Franz Liszt, Franz Schubert, and Ludwig van Beethoven were among the most famous of his pupils.

Salieri's music slowly disappeared from the repertoire between 1800 and 1868 and was rarely heard after that period until the revival of his fame in the late 20th century. This revival was due to the dramatic and highly fictionalized depiction of Salieri in Peter Shaffer's play Amadeus (1979) and its 1984 film version. His music today has regained some modest popularity via recordings. He is popularly remembered as a supposedly bitter rival of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. This includes rumours that Salieri murdered Mozart out of jealousy, when in reality, they were at least respectful peers.

Ouvertures  

Conductor: Silvano Frontalini
All tracks performed by Moldavian National Symphony Orchestra

1 Antonio Salieri - La Secchia Rapita 00:00
2 Antonio Salieri - Les Danaides 05:39
3 Antonio Salieri - Palmira Regina di Persia 11:24
4 Antonio Salieri - La Fiera di Venezia 15:06
5 Antonio Salieri - Axur Re D'Ormus 18:42
6 Antonio Salieri - La Grotta di Trofonio 21:47
7 Antonio Salieri - Ouverture in Re Maggiore 28:00
8 Antonio Salieri - Europa Riconosciuta 33:45
9 Antonio Salieri - Variazioni sulla Follia 37:47

Salieri was a pivotal figure in the development of late 18th-century opera. As a student of Florian Leopold Gassmann, and a protégé of Gluck, Salieri was a cosmopolitan composer who wrote operas in three languages. Salieri helped to develop and shape many of the features of operatic compositional vocabulary and his music was a powerful influence on contemporary composers.