What is Vicente Martín y Soler?
{{Use dmy dates|date=February 2018}} [[File:Portrait vicente martin soler.jpg|thumb|300px|right|Vicente Martín y Soler]] '''Vicente Martín y Soler''' (2 May 1754 – 30 January 1806) was a [[composer]] from [[Spain]]. He wrote many [[opera]]s and [[ballet]]s. He was born in [[Valencia]], a city in Spain. He studied music in [[Bologna]] in [[Italy]]. His teacher in Bologna was [[Giovanni Battista Martini]]. His first opera was ''Il tutore burlato''. It was performed in [[Madrid]] in 1775. Then he went to Italy. He worked as a composer for the [[Teatro di San Carlo]] in [[Naples]] from 1777 to 1785. Then he moved to [[Vienna]] in Austria. His operas in Vienna had much success. In 1788 [[Catherine the Great]], the [[Emperor|Empress]] of [[Russia]], invited him to work for her. In Russia he wrote more operas and ballets. They were performed in the Empress's theater in [[Saint Petersburg]]. Martín y Soler died in Saint Petersburg.<ref>{{cite book| last1 = Highfill| first1 = Philip H.| last2 = Burnim| first2 = Kalman A.| last3 = Langhans| first3 = Edward A.| title = A Biographical Dictionary of Actors, Actresses, Musicians, Dancers, Managers, and Other Stage Personnel in London, 1660-1800: M'Intosh to Nash| url = https://books.google.com/books?id=xE2a06VfoogC&pg=PA117| year = 1984| publisher = SIU Press| isbn = 978-0-8093-1130-9| pages = 117–118 }}</ref><ref>{{cite book| author = Bertil H. Van Boer| title = Historical Dictionary of Music of the Classical Period| url = https://books.google.com/books?id=mUEAR9mWEWwC&pg=PA367| year = 2012| publisher = Scarecrow Press| isbn = 978-0-8108-7183-0| page = 367 }}</ref> ==Operas== Martín y Soler's most important operas were: * ''[[Il burbero di buon cuore]]'' (1786) * ''[[Una cosa rara]]'' (1786) * ''[[L'arbore di Diana]]'' (1787) * ''[[La capricciosa corretta]]'' (1795) ==References== {{Reflist}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Vicente Martin y Soler, Vicente}} [[Category:1754 births]] [[Category:1806 deaths]] [[Category:Spanish composers]]