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Nicola Porpora

Nicola Porpora
Nicola Porpora, Italian composer and educator (d. 1768)

Nicola Antonio Giacinto Porpora was an Italian composer and teacher of singing of the Baroque era, whose most famous singing students were the castrati Farinelli and Caffarelli. Other students included composers Johann Adolph Hasse, Matteo Capranica and Joseph Haydn.

17 August 1686

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