Nicola Fago was an Italian

Italy

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 Baroque

Baroque

The Baroque is a period and the style that used exaggerated motion and clear, easily interpreted detail to produce drama, tension, exuberance, and grandeur in sculpture, painting, literature, dance, and music...

 composer and teacher.

Biography

Born in Taranto

Taranto

Taranto is a coastal city in Apulia, Southern Italy. It is the capital of the Province of Taranto and is an important commercial port as well as the main Italian naval base....

, he studied music at the Conservatorio della Pietà dei Turchini in Naples

Naples

Naples is a city in Southern Italy, situated on the country's west coast by the Gulf of Naples. Lying between two notable volcanic regions, Mount Vesuvius and the Phlegraean Fields, it is the capital of the region of Campania and of the province of Naples...

 between 1693 and 1695. Between 1704 and 1708 he worked at the Conservatorio Sant´Onofrio. From 1705 to 1740 he was at the Conservatorio della Pietà d`Turchini, and from 1709 to 1731 at the Tesoro di San Gennaro.

He died in Naples

Naples

Naples is a city in Southern Italy, situated on the country's west coast by the Gulf of Naples. Lying between two notable volcanic regions, Mount Vesuvius and the Phlegraean Fields, it is the capital of the region of Campania and of the province of Naples...

 in 1745. One of his notable pupils was Giuseppe de Majo

Giuseppe de Majo

Giuseppe de Majo was an Italian composer and organist. He was the father of the composer Gian Francesco de Majo. His compositional output consists of 10 operas, an oratorio, a concerto for 2 violins, and a considerable amount of sacred music.-Life and career:Born in Naples, Majo spent most of his...

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Operas

• Lo Masiello
• L'Astratto (1709)
• Il Radamista (1707)
• La Dafne
• Cassandra Indovina (1711)
• "Magnificat" ten vocals + instruments
• "Stabat Mater" 4 vocals + a quartet
• Il Faraone Sommerso (1709)

Other works

• Le fenzejune abbendurate, Commedia per musica, 1710
• La Cianna, Commedia per musica, 1711
• Lo Masillo Dramma per musica
  Dramma per musica
  Dramma per musica is a term which was used by dramatists in Italy and elsewhere between the late-17th and mid-19th centuries...
  
   (2. Akt von Michele De Falco), 1712
• La Dafne, Favola pastorale in stile arcadio, 1714