(Bâr-när’-do Pas-kwe’-ne) 1637–1710 Italian composer Pasquini was a keyboard virtuoso and teacher working in Rome, who numbered Muffat, Francesco Gasparini (1668–1727) and Domenico Zipoli (1688–1726) among his pupils. He benefited from several of the leading Roman patrons of the time, including the cardinals Pamphili and Ottoboni, as well as from the exiled Queen Christina of Sweden. He served ...
begins from 1698, when Emperor Leopold I appointed Fux Hofcomponist (‘head composer’) at the Vienna court. In 1700 Fux travelled to Rome, and there he studied with Bernardo Pasquini (1637–1710). In 1705 he was created Vice-Kapellmeister – and later Kapellmeister – of St Stephen’s Cathedral, Vienna. A year later Leopold appointed him court Vice-Kapellmeister and in 1715 Kapellmeister. ...
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