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Tommaso Traetta
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Traetta was trained between 1738 and 1748 at the Conservatory of St. Maria di Loreto in Naples, where his teachers were Porpora and Durante. In Rome and Naples during the early 1750s he came into contact with the commanding figure of Jommelli. In 1762, with the famous Mannheim orchestra at his command, Traetta wrote the most symphonic of his operas, and certainly his best operatic symphonia: "Sofonisba". In 1767, Gluck directed a performance of Traetta's "Ifigenia" in Florence, and he had not forgotten its music when he came to write his own "Iphigènie en Tauride". Traetta was director of Conservatorio dell'Ospedaletto at Venice in 1765. 
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