!!!Draghi, Antonio

b. Rimini (Italy), around 1634, 
d. Vienna, Jan. 16, 1700. Composer, singer in dowager empress 
Eleonora's orchestra choir in Vienna from 1657 or 1658. Composed his 
first operas in 1666, became maestro di capella in 1669; appointed 
"intendente delle musiche teatrali" (a title created for A. Cesti) by  
Leopold  I, 1673, Court Orchestra Director, 1682. One of the most 
significant composers of baroque operas and oratorios in Vienna.

!Works
118 operas, 43 oratorios (sepolcri);

!Literature
H. Seifert, Die Oper am Wr. Kaiserhof im 17. Jh., 
1985.



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