Baldassare Galuppi (1 gen 1706 anni – 1 gen 1785 anni)

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In addition to his stage works, Galuppi left more than one hundred galant keyboard sonatas. The model for these sonatas wwas graceful singing, for what else would one expect from a composer who worked mainly for the stage?

Beginning in the late 1740s, Galuppi was the major international composer creating a new operatic genre, one that he and his main librettist, Carlo Goldoni called dramma giocoso (humorous drama) and that took Europe by storm as opera buffa (from buffo, Italian for buffoon or clown). If opera seria was a form of noble musical tragedy, opera buffa was musical comedy--the earliest form of full-fledged comic opera. Comic opera would emerge as a great stylistic transformer of European music. It is the common source for all the musical styles we have been tracking thus far, even the empfindsamer Stil exemplified by CPE. And as we shall see, by the time of Mozart's mature operas in the 1780s, opera buffa would for some time decisively replace (or, more precisely, displace) the seria as the most vital--and even the most serious!--form of musical theater. To appreciate the role of "humorous drama" as a hotbed of stylistic transformation we must look first at its own antecedents.

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