5 Quotes & Sayings By Pietro Metastasio

Pietro Metastasio was born at Calvi on the Corsican coast in 1729. He was tutored by Domenico Cimarosa, the composer of L'Orfeo, and by Pietro Ottoboni, who helped him obtain his first choral appointment. His first important appointment was that of maestro di capella at the cathedral at Treviso. When he met Metastasio, the poet had already written over one hundred works of various kinds. He was appointed to the post of professor of poetry at Bologna in 1760 and worked there until 1771 Read more

While in Bologna, Metastasio composed his most famous work, Orfeo ed Euridice (1762), which is considered to be the greatest opera ever written. In 1771 he became music director of the court chapel at Vienna, where he wrote several oratorios and operas and also composed many other works. Metastasio died in Vienna in 1782 and is buried in the churchyard of Santa Maria Maggiore in Rome.

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The bee and the serpent often sip from the selfsame flower. Pietro Metastasio
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If every man's internal care Were written on his brow How many would our pity share Who raise our envy now? Pietro Metastasio
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Every noble acquisition is attended with its risks he who fears to encounter the one must not expect to obtain the other Pietro Metastasio
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Every noble acquisition is attended with its risks he who fears to encounter the one must not expect to obtain the other. Pietro Metastasio