Manuel Staropoli

Little is known about Robert de Visée's life. The facts that have survived, however, reveal an illustrious career: as well as playing the guitar, lute, theorbo and viola da gamba, the Frenchman was also a singer and composer, and in 1680 he

Vivaldi was one of the most prolific of all the great composers, and his concertos -- around 600 in number are justly famous. His sacred music and some of the operas have also become popular. His musical imagination and the breadth of his i