Vicente Martin Y Soler's lyrics & chords

Vicente Martín y Soler (May 2, 1754 - January 30, 1806) was a Valencian composer of opera and ballet. Although relatively obscure today, in his own day he was compared favorably with his contemporary, Mozart, as a composer of opera buffa. He has been called the Valencian Mozart. He was born in Valencia and studied music in Bologna under Giovanni Battista Martini. His first opera was Il tutore burlato (1775), an adaptation of Giovanni Paisiello's La frascatana, which in turn was based on a play of the same title by Filippo Livigni. He had the ...read more