Alessandro Scarlatti
Italy, 1679–1725
Founder of the Neapolitan opera school — over 60 operas and 600 cantatas that fixed the da capo aria and the Italian overture as the standard forms of late Baroque music.
Italy, 1679–1725
Founder of the Neapolitan opera school — over 60 operas and 600 cantatas that fixed the da capo aria and the Italian overture as the standard forms of late Baroque music.