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Antonio Lotti (1667–1740),
born in Venice, is best known today for his church music and vocal chamber music, and to a lesser extent his numerous operas. For most of his career he served the City’s ducal church of San Marco: first as a singer, then as an organist and finally, in 1736, as its musical director. Over several decades he was the most prominent teacher of music in Venice. He had a brief experience of life abroad during 1717–1719 when he led a company of mostly Venetian musicians at the Saxon-Polish court in Dresden.
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