Pryor Baird - Change the World (The Voice Performance)

However, the Hamburg Opera fell apart (for economically backward, feudal Germany, the time of nat.the opera school has not yet arrived), and in 1706 he left for Italy, lived in Florence, Rome, Naples, Venice and won the glory of a first-class composer. He wrote the operas Rodrigo (1707), Agrippina (1709), oratorios, the pastoral serenade Acis, Galatea and Polyphemus (1708), chamber cantatas, duets, terzets, psalms. In Italy, G. became known as an outstanding performer on the clavier and organ (competed with D. Scarlatti). Since 1710 G. bandmaster in Hanover (Germany). In the same year he was invited to London, where at the beginning of In 1711 his opera Rinaldo was staged with great success. In the 1710s G. worked alternately in London and Hanover, in 1717 he finally broke with Germany and in 1727 adopted the English. citizenship.