Astorga, EMANUELE D', composer, born at Palermo in 1681, the son of a Sicilian noble executed for opposing Spanish annexation of the island, studied music in a Spanish monastery at Astorga in Leon. His patron, the Duke of Parma, erroneously suspecting that his daughter was receiving his addresses, sent him away to the court of the Emperor Leopold. Astorga died in a monastery at Prague, 1736. His master-work is a Stabat Mater (ed. by R. Franz, Halle, 1864).
Astorga, EMANUELE D'
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