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Leonardo Vinci Biography

(1690 - 1730)

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1480 St Jerome (Vatican Museums, Rome)
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1495 Virgin and Child with St Anne (cartoon, Royal Accademy, London)
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1508 Virgin of the Rocks (National Gallery, London)
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(born 1690, Strongoli, Kingdom of Naples [Italy]—died May 27, 1730, Naples) Italian composer who was one of the originators of the Neapolitan style of opera; along with Nicola Porpora, his followers included Giovanni Battista Pergolesi and Johann Adolph Hasse.

Vinci's first known work was a comic opera in the Neapolitan dialect, Lo cecato fauzo (1719; “The False Blind Man”). He served as chapelmaster to the prince of Sansevero and in 1725 received a conductorship of the royal chapel at Naples, a post he held until his death. His earliest extant serious opera, Silla dittatore (1723; “Silla the Dictator”), inaugurated a series of about 40 operas, most written for Naples but some for Rome. Arias from his operas were published in London in 1758 under the title Collection of Songs. In addition to his operas, Vinci also composed oratorios, masses, and motets.