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Pedro António Avondano (16 April 1714 - 1782) was a Portuguese composer of Italian parentage.
Pedro António was born and died in
Biography
(in Portuguese) {{DEFAULTSORT:Avondano, Pedro Antonio 1714 births 1782 deaths Composers for harpsichord Portuguese violinists Male violinists Portuguese composers Portuguese male composers Musicians from Lisbon 18th-century Portuguese musicians Portuguese people of Italian descent 18th-century composers 18th-century male musicians
Pedro António Avondano (16 April 1714 - 1782) was a Portuguese composer of Italian parentage.
Pedro António was born and died in Lisbon
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. His father Pietro Giorgio Avondano of Genoa
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, was a violinist at the court of João V, one of many Italian musicians at the Portuguese court.
Pedro António Avondano is mainly noted, like Domenico Scarlatti
Giuseppe Domenico Scarlatti (26 October 1685 – 23 July 1757) was an Italian composer. He is classified primarily as a Baroque music, Baroque composer chronologically, although his music was influential in the development of the Classical peri ...
, for his harpsichord sonatas and sacred music.
Works, editions and recordings
* comic opera ''Il mondo della luna'', with libretto byCarlo Goldoni
Carlo Osvaldo Goldoni (, also , ; 25 February 1707 – 6 February 1793) was an Italian playwright and librettist from the Republic of Venice. His works include some of Italy's most famous and best-loved plays. Audiences have admired the plays ...
* oratorio ''Il voto di Jefte''
* oratorio ''Adamo ed Eva''
* sacred works, inc. ''Tantum ergo''
* ''sinfonie''
Editions
* Forty-nine Lisbon minuets by Pedro Antonio Avondano ed. Mary Farrar Hatchette, Tulane University of Louisiana, 1971 - 334 pages.
Recordings
* Avondano. Sonata in C major. Sousa Carvalho. Toccata in G minor, Allegro in D major. Ruggero Gerlin (harpsichord). Philips © 835769I.Y LP, 1967
* Harpsichord works. Rosana Lanzelotte. Portugaler, 2006.''Harpsichord and fortepiano'' 11-12 2006 Pedro Avondano: Sonatas Rosana Lanzelotte, harpsichord Portugaler 2014-2 Reviewed by John Collins "Only two volumes devoted to keyboard music are known to have been published in Portugal during the eighteenth century,.."
*''Il mondo della luna'', Naxos, 2020
*''La Morte d'Abel'', Presto Music, 2023
Some of Avondano's works were revived at the Festival d'Ambronay in 2006.
References
External links
*Biography
(in Portuguese) {{DEFAULTSORT:Avondano, Pedro Antonio 1714 births 1782 deaths Composers for harpsichord Portuguese violinists Male violinists Portuguese composers Portuguese male composers Musicians from Lisbon 18th-century Portuguese musicians Portuguese people of Italian descent 18th-century composers 18th-century male musicians