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PORTA, Giovanni

Born in Venice or the Veneto, c. 1675
Died in Munich, June 21, 1755

  • Porta was a Venetian opera composer who also worked in Rome and Bavaria.
  • Porta worked alongside Vivaldi at the Ospedale della Pietà, the girls’ orphanage with a renowned choir and orchestra made up of the girls who lived there. Porta directed the choir.1

Short biography

Sources

  1. Faun Tanenbaum Tiedge, “Porta, Giovanni,” Grove Music Online (2001), accessed December 19, 2019,  https://www.oxfordmusiconline.com/grovemusic/view/10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.001.0001/omo-9781561592630-e-0000041168.

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