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Verhoyen

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Alessandro Stradella (1639-1682), the great Italian composer of the Baroque period, is considered the originator of the "concerto grosso" (concerto concerto) form and composed many outstanding religious works. He embezzled church money in Rome and fled. He returned to Rome when the heat had cooled off, but he had many problems with women in Rome and Venice, where he next fled, and was eventually stabbed to death by an assassin in Genoa. The oratorio "Saint Editta," which is said to have been composed between 1972 and 1973 before he fled to Venice, is a compact work with only solo voices and basso continuo. Here, the cello, theorbo, and harpsichord are in charge of the passive bass, fully complementing the voices of the six solo singers. Tokyo M-Plus