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Vicente Martín y Soler (Valencia, 2-V-1754; St. Petersburg, 11-II-1806) is one of the most outstanding composers of stage music of eighteenth-century Spain and Europe. He exerted his musical mastery in Spain, Italy, Russia and England. Da Ponte's collaborator on five operas, Martín y Soler's works were staged, with tremendous success, in numerous European theatres and influenced the course of musical-theatrical composition in Spain.Martín y Soler and the Circumstances surrounding the WorkFollowing the death of the Habsburg Emperor Joseph II on 2 February 1790 Da Ponte, who had been a poet to the imperial theatres since 1783, fell into disgrace: he became Salieri's enemy and Casti, who was now court poet, advised him to move to Paris. In turn, in 1791 Martín y Soler (responsible for three Viennese hits, l burbero di buon cuorein January…