Musicatlas
Music
Operas, oratorios, cantatas, madrigals, concerti, sonatas, and "Estro poeticoarmonico" (1724-26), a setting for voices and instruments of the first 50 psalms in an Italian paraphrase by G. Giustiniani.
Life
His birth dat is also given as 31 July or 2 August 1686.
Benedetto Marcello was a student of Lotti and Gasparini. In 1711 he was a member of the Venetian Council of Forty, from 1730–1738 governor of Pola (Istria), and in 1738 papal chamberlain at Brescia.
Marcello translated John Dryden’s “Timotheus“. He wrote a libretto for G. Ruggeri’s opera Arato in Sparta (1709) and “Il teatro alla moda“ (1720), a satirical account of contemporary operatic practice.
(Contribution by Dr. Siegfried Kruse <siegfried.kruse
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Places
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- Italy, Brescia, San Giuseppe —
[organ] Antegnati 1581 - [grave] B. Marcello, †1739 - (outside) [memorial tablet] Marcello, [memorial tablet] Gasparo de Salò- Italy, Venezia - San Marco, Piazza San Marco, 58 café Florian —
- Eldest meeting place. There is a memorial tablet with a painted portrait of Benedetto Marcello.
- Italy, Venezia - Cannaregio, Canal Grande/Calle Erizzo, 2134 Palazzo Marcello — 1 Aug 1686
Benedetto and Allessandro Marcello were born here (canal side).