Bernard Chasan wrote:

>Recently I heard a cello concerto on the radio (wgbh) by a Baroque
>Neopolitan composer named Leo (last name!!) The soloist was Bylesma,
>playing with the Tafelmusic group, and it was on a Canadian label I didn't
>catch- along with five others cello concerti.  It was fascinating, complex,
>beautiful music -not a just a rerun of what I think of as the usual Italian
>Baroque.  I commend it to Baroque enthusiasts as well as passersby like me.
>Does anyone know something about this Leo fellow?

Leonardo Ortensio Salvatore de Leo, 1694-1744.
Was an organist, wrote sacred dramas, operas, comic operas (altogether some
fifty operas), magnificats, motets, organ works, six concerti for cello and
string orchestra and basso continuo, and a concerto for four violins and
continuo.

There is a nice juicy article about him in the eighth ed.  of Baker's
Biogaphical Dictionary from which I got all my information.  I cannot
tell a lie:  Never hoid of the guy before.

Mimi Ezust
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