Carlo Francesco Pollarolo

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Carlo Francesco Pollarolo (ca. 1653 – 7 February 1723) was an Italian composer, chiefly of operas. Born into a musical family, he became the cathedral organist of his home town of Brescia. In the 1680s he began composing operas for performance in nearby Venice. He wrote a total of 85 of them as well as 13 oratorios. His operatic style is noted for its development of arias accompanied by the orchestra and it shows some influence from the contemporary French opera of Jean-Baptiste Lully.

Sources

The Viking Opera Guide ed. Holden (Viking, 1993)
Magazine de l'opéra baroque (in French)
Free scores by Carlo Francesco Pollarolo at the International Music Score Library Project

Authority control	WorldCat VIAF: 66729943 LCCN: nr88002382 ISNI: 0000 0001 0911 1928 GND: 123609844 SUDOC: 150165986 BNF: cb147925490

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Name	Pollarolo, Carlo Francesco
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Short description	Italian composer
Date of birth	ca. 1653
Place of birth
Date of death	7 February 1723
Place of death

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