Antonio Calegari Explained

Antonio Calegari (17 February 1757, in Padua – 22 or 28 July 1828) was an Italian classical composer. His oratorio La risurrezione di Lazzaro 1779, was recorded under Filippo Maria Bressan in 2000.^[1]

He is to be distinguished from three other composers called Calegari from Padua; Father Francesco Antonio Calegari (d.1742), and Giuseppe Calegari, composer of a Betulia liberata (1771).^[2] and his own nephew Luigi Antonio Calegari.

Another contemporary of the same name,, was born in Brescia in 1699 and died on July 15, 1777.^[3]

Notes and References

1. The Harvard biographical dictionary of music Don Michael Randel - 1996 "Calegari, Antonio (b. Padua, 17 Feb. 1757; d. there, 22 or 28 July 1 828)."
2. Francesco Antonio Calegari (d. 1742): music theorist and composer Walter William Schurr - 1972
3. https://books.google.com/books?id=4KdVAAAAcAAJ Supplemento alla Serie dei trecento elogi e ritratti degli uomini i più illustri in Pittura, Scultura, e Architettura.