Alessandro Stradella was one of the most colourful characters in the 17th-century Italian baroque. Though many details about his career as a composer remain sketchy, the circumstances of his death at ...

The circumstances of Alessandro Stradella's death - he was murdered in Genoa in 1682 at the age of 42 - are better known nowadays than his music. But the growth industry in obscure baroque choral ...

I first came across Stradella when I heard my friend, the musicologist Alberto Sanna, playing his violin sonatas at Hope University, where we both teach. I’d never heard anything like them. They were ...

Damien Guillon explains the lure of Stradella’s oratorio San Giovanni Battista I first came across the music of Alessandro Stradella while I was a student at the Centre de Musique Baroque, hunting ...

17th-century Italy: composer Alessandro Stradella’s real life is one of scandal, chaos and close calls. Stars Trystan Gravelle. Show more Alessandro Stradella (1639-1682) conjured music of sublime ...

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