Vincenzo Tobia Nicola Bellini (1744-1829) - Lezione in Sol maggiore

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Composer: Vincenzo Tobia Nicola Bellini (1744-1829)
Work: Lezione in Sol maggiore (c.1761)
Software: Sibelius + Instruments samples
World Premiere: No
Real performance: https://youtu.be/yBmjm5goTOw
Sheet music (pdf): https://s9.imslp.org/files/imglnks/usimg/d/d4/IMSLP219755-PMLP363593-Cotumacci-Bellini_Lezione_n._46_U.Di-Gregorio.pdf
Sheet music (xml): https://www.mediafire.com/file/zysn9zfejqf231k/BELLINI-LessonG.xml/file

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Vincenzo Tobia Nicola Bellini
(Torricella Peligna, 11 May 1744 - Catania, 8 June 1829)

Italian composer, grandfather of the celebrated Vincenzo Bellini (1801-1835). He was born in Torricella Peligna to Rosario Bellini and Francesca Mancini. He studied music with his father, an amateur violinist, and later with Canon Ricciardi. On 13 October 1755 he was admited to Conservatory of Sant'Onofrio in Porta Capuana where he had, among others, the teachers Carlo Cotumacci and likely Nicola Porpora. In 1765 he obtained the music degree and he published one of his first works, the oratorio "Isaac" based on Pietro Metastasio's text. From 1767 to 1768, he settled in the Kingdom of Sicily, where he was appointed maestro di cappella in Petralia Sottana. From there, he definitely settled in Catania as music teacher and maestro di capella of several city churches. He married Michelina Burzì with whom he had five children, among them, the organist and composer Rosario Bellini (1776-1840), the father of Vincenzo Bellini. When his first wife died around 1795, he remarried on 24 September 1796 to a certain Mattea Cognata. The period 1815-1816 he hosted Vincenzo Bellini in his house in order to introduce him to music. As a composer, he mainly wrote sacred music, among them, several oratorios, sacred dramas, masses, psalms and motets.