Nicola Porpora, Italian composer and educator (born 1686)

Nicola Porpora

Italian composer (1686–1768)

Nicola Antonio Giacinto Porpora was an Italian composer and teacher of singing of the Baroque era, whose most famous singing students were the castrati Farinelli and Caffarelli. Other students included composers Johann Adolph Hasse, Matteo Capranica and Joseph Haydn.