Leonardo Vinci

Leonardo Vinci (Strongoli di Calabria or Naples 1690 - Naples 1730) was a type-setter Neapolitan baroque.

Raise Gaetano Greco with the academy dei Poveri di Gesu Cristo of Naples, it is engaged ten years to later give lessons of music to future prince de Sansevero. It starts to be made a name while composing of the comic operas in Neapolitan dialect, such as Lo cecato fauzo and the doje lettere (1719). It will compose eleven of them of 1719 to 1724, whose zite 'N will galera in 1722, which obtains a great success thanks to its style full with life and spirit.

It turns then to the Opera seriated, with Publio Cornelio Scipione , in 1722, then Farnace in Rome, in 1724. It will successfully compose close to thirty-six operas for Venice, Rome, Padoue and of course Naples, among which Didone Abbandonata (Rome, 1728) and Artaserse (Rome, 1730).

Successor of Alessandro Scarlatti with the Royal Vault of Naples, it was with the head of the new generation of type-setters of opera seriated Italian. He differed from his predecessor by simplifying the melodies, introducing more accompanied récitatifs, emphasizing more the emotional character of the musical feelings or the characters.

Its musical writing at the same time full with freshness, promptness, invention and grace, is very often put at the service of the extraordinary technique of the castrati like Farinelli or Carestini. Pergolèse (which was its pupil) and Vivaldi largely imitated its principles of compositions, and Haendel took as a starting point her opera Partenope (created in 1725 for the Carnaval of Venice) to create with London its clean Partenope in 1730 on the same booklet.

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