About Ignazio Prota
Lived 1690 – 1748 (aged 57–58). Ignazio Prota was an Italian composer.
Ignazio Prota (15 September 1690 – January 1748) was an Italian composer and music educator. He was the father of composer Tommaso Prota and the grandfather of composer Gabriele Prota.
Prota was born and died in Naples, Kingdom of Naples. He taught for many years at the Conservatorio di Sant'Onofrio a Porta Capuana in Naples where two of his students were composers Matteo Capranica and Niccolò Jommelli. He wrote mainly sacred music and produced 3 operas.
Operas La finta fattucchiera (opera buffa, libretto by Angelo Birini), Spring 1721, Naples, Teatro dei Fiorentini) La vedova ingegnosa (intermezzi, libretto by Tommaso Mariani, 12 July 1735, Naples, Teatro S. Bartolomeo) La camilla (opera buffa, libretto by Antonio Palomba, 1737, Naples, Teatro Nuovo)
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Italian composer
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Ignazio Prota was born in 1690 in Naples.
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Ignazio Prota died in 1748 in Naples.
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Ignazio Prota was a composer.
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Ignazio Prota was Italian.
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