* Agostino Steffani visits Italy for the last time, and meets Handel at the palace of Cardinal Ottoboni in Rome.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

* 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 stands somewhat apart from contemporary Italian composers ( e. g., Alessandro Scarlatti ) in his mastery of instrumental forms.

Steffani was born at Castelfranco Veneto.

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

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.

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

* 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 )

Polymath of the Baroque: Agostino Steffani and His Music.

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

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

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.

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He eventually made his way to northern Italy and made an imperial government, but it is not known whether he visited the city of Rome at this time.

For the next three years he visited Blois, Poitiers, Tours, Italy, and Spain.

* Heracles visited Evander with Antor, who then stayed in Italy.

From 1878 onwards, he often visited Italy in the springtime, and he usually sought out a pleasant rural location in which to compose during the summer.

On 10 March 1940, Ribbentrop visited Rome where he met Mussolini, who promised him that Italy would soon enter the war.

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Ernesto Grillo's book Shakespeare and Italy ( 1949 ) argued that he probably visited northern Italy sometime around 1591-2.

Therefore, if the play was written by Oxford, it must have been before he visited Italy in 1575.

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In 1790, he took a walking tour of Europe, during which he toured the Alps extensively, and visited nearby areas of France, Switzerland, and Italy.

He visited Italy, Germany, Canada, Brazil, Japan, Egypt and Finland to promote the Soviet Union's accomplishment of putting the first human in space.

The Uffizi | Uffizi Gallery, the most visited museum in Italy and one of most important in the world.

In 1350 the king was visited at Prague by the Roman tribune Cola di Rienzo, who urged him to go to Italy, where the poet Petrarch and the citizens of Florence also implored his presence.

He visited the universities of Padua and Bologna, and traveled in Italy and Spain.

In January 1520, he visited Italy at the invitation of Pope Leo X, to whom he presented his latest work De primate Petri adversus Ludderum ( Ingolstadt, 1520 ) for which he was rewarded with the nomination to the office of papal protonotary, although his efforts to urge the Curia to decisive action against Luther were unsuccessful for some

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After a short tour of the United States, where he visited Hollywood, he returned to Italy to be Renoir's assistant again, this time for La Tosca ( 1939 ), a production that was interrupted and later completed by German director Karl Koch because of World War II.

On the way they visited France and Italy, and set sail for India from the Port of Naples on 30 December 1896.

The new king embarked on an overland journey through Italy and France, where among other things he visited the pope in Rome and suppressed a rebellion in Gascony.

He visited France in December 1939, North Africa and Malta in June 1943, Normandy in June 1944, southern Italy in July 1944, and the Low Countries in October 1944.