Stradal

(str i’-dal), August, Teplitz, 1860—Schénlinde, Bohemia, March 13, 1930; pupil of Door, Bruckner and Liszt; pianist and composer. (str a-dél’-la), A le andro, probably Naples or Venice, ca. 1645 —Genoa, after 1681 (the date of his last cantata); important Italian composer, of whom little is actually known, though he is the hero of an extraordinarily melodramatic legend of jealous nobility, paid a a ins, and love pursued. In a work by Bonnet-Bourdelot (1715), it is said that his name was Stradel and being engaged to write an opera for Venice, he eloped with the mistre of a nobleman who sent paid bravi to a a inate him in Rome. These men were overcome by the beauty of an oratorio of his and warned him of his danger. He fled to Turin with the woman who pa ed for his wife, and after being followed here and there, wounds, was finally slain in Genoa. flotow made an opera of this story, in which there is much that is incredible. S. was also credited with being a singer and poet, and a wonderful harpist. In any case, 148 of his works exist in MS. in the Modena Library, and others elsewhere, incl. 8 oratorios, cantatas, gals, duets, etc. The church-aria “Prieta, Signore,’ and the arias “O del mio doice ardor” and “Se i miei sospirt,” are probably wrongly attributed to him. Monographs by P. Richard, ‘‘A. Str a dell a” (1866), and Calelane.