* Agostino Steffani ( 1653 – 1728 ) was Kapellmeister from 1688 to 1698 at the court of Hanover.

Agostino Steffani, a polymath, was sponsored by the Electress from his arrival in Düsseldorf, in 1703, until her return to Tuscany ; the Conservatorio library in Florence houses two editions of his chamber duets.

An 1816 lithography of Agostino Steffani from an unknown original.

Beginning from the autograph of the Duetto da camera Pria ch ' io faccia by Agostino Steffani.

Steffani visited Italy for the last time in 1727, in which year Handel, who always gratefully remembered the kindness he had received from him at Hanover, once more met him at the palace of Cardinal Ottoboni in Rome.

His pupils included Agostino Steffani, Franz Xaver Murschhauser, and possibly Johann Pachelbel, and his influence is seen in works by Handel and Johann Sebastian Bach: Handel frequently borrowed themes and fragments of music from Kerll's works, and Bach arranged the Sanctus movement from Kerll's Missa superba as BWV 241, Sanctus in D major.

But for the manuscripts at Buckingham Palace these operas would be utterly unknown ; but Steffani will never cease to be remembered by his beautiful chamber duets, which, like those of his contemporary Carlo Maria Clari ( 1669 – 1745 ), are chiefly written in the form of cantatas for two voices, accompanied by a figured bass.

* 1653 – Agostino Steffani, Italian ecclesiastic, diplomat, and composer ( d. 1728 )

* February 12 – Agostino Steffani, Italian diplomat and composer ( b. 1654 )

* July 25 – Agostino Steffani, Italian diplomat and composer ( d. 1728 )

Agostino Steffani ( 25 July 1654 – 12 February 1728 ) was an Italian ecclesiastic, diplomat and composer.

His court in Hanover was graced by many cultural icons such as the mathematician and philosopher Gottfried Leibniz and the composers George Frideric Händel and Agostino Steffani.

Among the dozens of composers whose music he recorded as a harpsichordist, organist, clavichordist, fortepianist, chamber musician or conductor were Johann Sebastian Bach, Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach, Wilhelm Friedemann Bach, Heinrich Biber, John Blow, Georg Böhm, William Byrd, André Campra, François Couperin, Louis Couperin, John Dowland, Jacques Duphly, Antoine Forqueray, Girolamo Frescobaldi, Johann Jakob Froberger, Orlando Gibbons, André Grétry, George Frideric Handel, Jacques-Martin Hotteterre, Jean-Baptiste Lully, Claudio Monteverdi, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Georg Muffat, Johann Pachelbel, Henry Purcell, Jean-Philippe Rameau, Christian Ritter, Johann Rosenmüller, Domenico Scarlatti, Agostino Steffani, Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck, Georg Philipp Telemann, Manuel Valls, Antonio Vivaldi, and Matthias Weckmann.

Polymath of the Baroque: Agostino Steffani and His Music.

Others who have written settings are Agostino Steffani, Giovanni Carlo Maria Clari, Emanuele d ' Astorga, Winter, Raimondi, Vito, Lanza, Neukomm.

* Agostino Steffani is elected honorary president of the Academy of Antient Musick in London.

He obtained introductions to leading musicians, among them Arcangelo Corelli, Alessandro and Domenico Scarlatti, and Agostino Steffani, and met numerous singers and performers.

Steffani was born at Castelfranco Veneto.

But it was not only as a musician that Steffani distinguished himself in his new home.

Between 1709 and 1723 Steffani served as Vicar Apostolic of Upper and Lower Saxony, a new Roman Catholic diaspora jurisdiction, embracing Upper and Lower Saxon territories.

Invested with these high honours, Steffani could scarcely continue to produce dramatic compositions in public without grievous breach of etiquette.

Another score, that of Arminio in the same collection, dated Düsseldorf, 1707, and evidently the work of Steffani, bears no composer's name.

Steffani did not accompany the elector George to England ; but in 1724 the Academy of Antient Musick in London elected him its honorary president for life ; and in return for the compliment he sent the association a magnificent Stabat Mater, for six voices and orchestra, and three fine madrigals.

All these compositions are very much in advance of the age in which they were written ; and in his operas Steffani shows an appreciation of the demands of the stage very remarkable indeed at a period at which the musical drama was gradually approaching the character of a merely formal concert, with scenery and dresses.

Steffani returned soon afterwards to Hanover, and died on 12 February 1728 while engaged in the transaction of some diplomatic business at Frankfurt.

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" The phrase had appeared in a headline in The Times a few weeks earlier, on January 22, 1896, paraphrasing a comment by Canadian Finance Minister George Eulas Foster ( 1847 – 1931 ) to the Parliament of Canada on January 16, 1896: " In these somewhat troublesome days when the great Mother Empire stands splendidly isolated in Europe ..."

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