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He was born at Frattamaggiore , in the kingdom of Naples, and at an early age he entered the Conservatorio dei poveri di Gesu' Cristo, at Naples, where he received lessons from Gaetano Greco . Later he became a pupil of Alessandro Scarlatti at the Conservatorio di Sant' Onofrio. He is also supposed to have studied under Bernardo Pasquini and Giuseppe Ottavio Pitoni in Rome, but there is no documentary evidence. He is said to have succeeded Scarlatti in 1725 at Sant' Onofrio, and to have remained there until 1742, when he succeeded Porpora as head of the Conservatorio di Santa Maria di Loreto, also at Naples. This post he held for thirteen years, till his death at Naples. He was married three times.

His fame as a teacher was considerable, and Niccola Jommelli, Giovanni Paisiello, Giovanni Battista Pergolesi, Niccola PiccinniNiccola Piccinni ( January 16, 1728 May 7, 1800) was an Italian composer of classical music. He was born at Bari, and educated under Leonardo Leo and Francesco Durante, at the Conservatorio di Sant' Onofrio in Naples. For this Piccinni had to thank the in and Leonardo VinciLeonardo Vinci ( 1690- 1730), not to be confused with Leonardo da Vinci, was an Italian musical composer, best known for his operas. He was born at Strongoli in Calabria and educated at Naples under Gaetano Greco in the Conservatorio dei Poveri di Gesu' C were amongst his pupils. As a teacher, he insisted on the unreasoning observance of rules, differing thus from Scarlatti, who treated all his pupils as individuals. A complete collection of Durante's works, consisting almost exclusively of sacred music, was presented by Selvaggi, a Neapolitan art collector, to the Paris library. A catalogue may be found in Fétis's Biographie universelle. The imperial library of ViennaThis article is about the city and federal state in Austria. For other places or things called Vienna, see Vienna (disambiguation). Vienna ( German: Wien [viːn]) is the capital of Austria, and also one of Austria's nine federal states Bundesland Wi also preserves a valuable collection of Durante's manuscripts. Two requiems, several masses (one of which, a most original work, is the Pastoral Mass for four voices) and the Lamentations of the prophet Jeremiah are amongst his most important settings.

The fact that Durante never composed for the stage brought him an exaggerated reputation as a composer of sacred music. Although one of the best church composers of his style and period, he is now considered inferior to both Leonardo LeoLeonardo Leo ( August 5, 1694 October 31, 1744), more correctly Lionardo Oronzo Salvatore de Leo was an Italian composer, born at S. Vito dei Normanni, near Brindisi. He became a student at the Conservatorio della Pieta dei Turchihi at Naples in 1703, and and Alessandro Scarlatti, and seems to have founded the sentimental school of Italian church music. This type of music is characteristic of Durante as a man; intellectually uncultured, but sincerely devout. HasseJohann Adolph Hasse ( March 25, 1699 December 23, 1783) was a German composer. Hasse was born at Bergedorf near Hamburg and received his first musical education from his father. Being possessed of a fine tenor voice, he chose a theatrical career and joine protested against Durante's being described as the greatest harmonist of Italy, a title which he ascribed to Alessandro Scarlatti.

This entry was originally from the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.