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Salvador Pazzaglia
1723 - 1807
Italy
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| S. Pazzaglia |
Salvador Pazzaglia (1723 - 1807), an Italian composer and singer; born in Pistoia, Italy, died in Firenze, Italy.
Requiem
| Period: | Classicism |
| Composed in: | 1780c |
| Musical form: | mass |
| Text/libretto: | Latin mass |
| In memory of: | Maria Theresia |
This is a memorial requiem for Empress Maria Theresa (13/05/1717 – 29/11/1780) was the only female ruler of the Habsburg dominions and the last of the House of Habsburg. She was the sovereign of Austria, Hungary, Croatia, Bohemia, Mantua, Milan, Lodomeria and Galicia, the Austrian Netherlands, and Parma. By marriage, she was Grand Duchess of Tuscany, Duchess of Lorraine, German Queen and Holy Roman Empress.
| Author: | James W. Pruett |
| Source: | The new Grove dictionary of music and musicians and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maria_Theresa_of_Austria |
| Maria Theresa (dedicatee) |