Not only for visual artists, but also for composers, a stay in Italy in the 18th century was part of an extensive artistic education. Naturally, exchanges between northern Europeans of different origins also took place under the Italian sun.
For example, the young Mozart met the British violinist Thomas Linley, who was the same age, in Florence. A generation older was Johann Adolf Hasse, who was already considered an Italian, so to speak. Immediately after his festive opera Ruggiero, Mozart's Serenata Ascanio was performed in Alba - with much greater success. Mozart wrote his famous Exsultate, jubilate for the castrato Venanzio Rauzzini.
Reinhard Goebel has put together a program that sheds light on the diverse relationships and mutual influences of the Northern Europeans in Italy.
Works:
•Hasse, J A: Il Ruggiero: Sinfonia
•Lamotte: Violin Concerto No. 2 in D Major
•Linley the elder: Violin Concerto in F major
•Mozart: Symphony No. 48 in D major, K120
•Rauzzini: Sinfonia in D major