Attilio Ariosti (1666-1729) - Cantata ’Pur al fin gentil viola’

Buon compleanno Attilio Ariosti Composer: Attilio Ariosti (1666-1729) Work: Cantata ’Pur al fin gentil viola’ Performers: Charlotte Lehmann (soprano); Günther Weiss (viola d’amore); Jürgen Wolf (1938-2014, cello); Theodor Klein (harpsichord) Painting: Attribué à Alexis Grimou (1678-1733) - La chanteuse tenant une partition Painting: Attribué à Alexis Grimou (1678-1733) - Le joueur de flûte --- Attilio (Malachia [Clemente]) [Frate Ottavio] Ariosti (Bologna, 5 November 1666 - London, before 3 September 1729) Italian composer, singer and instrumentalist. He joined the order of S. Maria de’ Servi at the Bologna monastery in 1688, took minor orders in 1689, and received his diaconate in 1692. Abandoning the order, he was in the service of the Duke of Mantua in 1696. With Lotti and Caldara, he collaborated on the opera Tirsi (Venice, 1696). In 1697 he went to Berlin as a court composer and staged the first Italian