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• Albinoni, Tomaso    b. June 14, 1671  d. January 17, 1751
  Composer. The son of a wealthy Venice merchant, he had the means to devote himself exclusively to music. He considered himself an amateur, although fully trained in his art, and was said to have composed 81 operas, 99 sonatas, 9 sinfonias, and numerous vocal works. He was the first Italian composer to write concertos for the oboe (eight in all). After his death most of his unpublished papers were acquired by the State Library of Dresden, Germany, which was destroyed by Allied bombing during...[Read More] (Bio by: Robert Edwards)
  Church of San Marco, Venice, Provincia di Venezia, Veneto, Italy
   
• Cavalli, Pietro Francesco    b. February 14, 1602  d. January 14, 1676
  Composer. He gave the word "opera" its present meaning. Beginning with its creator, Jacopo Peri, Italian music theatre had been referred to as "dramma per musica". Cavalli broke with this tradition by calling his first theatrical work, "Le Nozze di Teti" (1639), an "opera-scenica" ("scenic work"). Eventually shortened to "opera", this phrase became the name of the genre. Cavalli is also credited with introducing the "bel canto" style of singing, which emphasized long, smoothly-flowing...[Read More] (Bio by: Robert Edwards)
  Church of San Marco, Venice, Provincia di Venezia, Veneto, Italy
   
• Chios, Saint Isidore Of  
  Saint. He brought christianity to the Island of Chios.Isidore was martyred under Decius in 251 AD and his Feast Day is May 15th. His remains were taken from Chios to Venice in the 12th century. (Bio by: girlofcelje (inactive))
  Church of San Marco, Venice, Provincia di Venezia, Veneto, Italy
   
• Mark, Saint [cenotaph]    d. 68
  Patron saint of Venice. This is a cenotaph: the body,that had been stolen by Venetians in Alexandria (Egypt) during the Crusades, was given back to the Coptic Church of Egypts by Pope Paul VI and is now in the St. Mark Church in Alexandria.
  Church of San Marco, Venice, Provincia di Venezia, Veneto, Italy
   
• Urbani, Giovanni Cardinal    b. March 26, 1900  d. September 17, 1969
  Italian prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. Urbani was president of the Italian Bishops Conference from 1966. He succeeded Angelo Cardinal Romcalli as patriarch of Venice when Roncalli became Pope John XXIII in 1958. In 1958 he was elevated to Cardinal.
  Church of San Marco, Venice, Provincia di Venezia, Veneto, Italy
   

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