Composer Portrait - Niccolo Jommelli
Lucie Skeaping presents a profile of 18th-century composer Niccolo Jommelli.
The Early Music Show · BBC Radio 3
May 21, 201116m 27s
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Show Notes
Lucie Skeaping plays a selection of music by Niccolo Jommelli. Considered a pathfinder, steering music from the traditions of Baroque opera to the immediacy of Mozart's stage works, Jommelli's operatic reforms in the mid-eighteenth century made him a widely regarded figure in his day - ground-breaking and influential. His true significance is only now starting to be valued.