Martin y Soler, Vicente
(1754–1806)
Martiny Soler (Martini), (Atanasio Martin Ignacio) Vicente (Tadeo Francisco Pellegrin) (5–2–1754, Valencia; 1–30/2–11–1806, P.). Spanish comp. Probably studied with Padre Martini in Bologna. Achieved success in Italy as an opera comp., then settled in Vienna (1785), where he comp. his best-known work, Una cosa rara.“O quanto un si bel giubilo” from this opera was quoted by Mozart in the dinner scene in Don Giovanni. Mozart, in turn, wrote two arias “Chi sa quai sia,” K. 582, and “Vado, ma…