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Maria Antonia of Bavaria was a politician, musician, poetess, librettist, composer and entrepreneur. As the eldest remaining daughter of Charles Albert of Bavaria (later Charles VII, Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire), she received an excellent science and arts education. | '''Maria Antonia of Bavaria'''(18 July 1724 ‐ 23 April 1780) was a politician, musician, poetess, librettist, composer and entrepreneur. As the eldest remaining daughter of Charles Albert of Bavaria (later Charles VII, Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire), she received an excellent science and arts education. | ||
==Maria Antonia as an artist== | ==Maria Antonia as an artist== | ||
Her birth was celebrated with Pietro Torri's opera ''Amadis de Grecia''. In her youth in Munich, she received composition lessons from the renowned opera composers Giovanni Battista Ferrandini and [[Nicola Antonio Porpora]]. The festivities at her wedding to Frederick Christian of Saxony (1747) featured [[Christoph Willibald Gluck]]'s opera ''Le nozze d'Ercole'' e d'Ebe and [[Johann Adolf Hasse]]'s ''La Spartana generosa''. | Her birth was celebrated with Pietro Torri's opera ''Amadis de Grecia''. In her youth in Munich, she received composition lessons from the renowned opera composers Giovanni Battista Ferrandini and [[Nicola Antonio Porpora]]. The festivities at her wedding to Frederick Christian of Saxony (1747) featured [[Christoph Willibald Gluck]]'s opera ''Le nozze d'Ercole'' e d'Ebe and [[Johann Adolf Hasse]]'s ''La Spartana generosa''. | ||