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Nicola Sala (7 April 1713 – 31 August 1801) was an Italiancomposer andmusic theorist. He was born inTocco Caudio and died inNaples. He was chapel-master and professor at Naples, having devoted himself to the collection of the finest models of printed music.[1]
Sala studied music in Naples atConservatorio della Pietà dei Turchini from 1732 to 1740 underNicola Fago andLeonardo Leo. Some of his pupils were Carlo Lenzi, Giuseppe Gherardeschi, Benedetto Neri, Étienne-Joseph Floquet, Adalbert Gyrowetz, Louis Julien Casels de Labarre, Ercole Paganini, Gaspare Spontini, and many others.
He probably wrote his first composition, the operaVologeso, staged first in Rome, in 1737. In 1745 he was accepted as successor to Leo in the position of master of the royal chapel. In the sixties represented some of his works at theTeatro di San Carlo, including the dramaZenobia, composed by his pupilAmbrogio Minoja, was well received. In 1787 he became second master of the Pieta Turchini, where he stayed for 47 years as teacher and director of the conservatory.
He was one of the most important Neapolitan teachers, having taught many musical composers. He wrote several pedagogical treatises, includingRegole del contrappunto pratico, published inNaples in 1794. He also wrote severaloperas,oratorios,masses andcantatas. His music was recently rediscovered by theConservatory of Benevento, which has headed the institution and the local associationEufoniarché, producing his operas and oratorios each year with the help ofpalaeographers and Latin scholars of theUniversity of Naples,Rome andParis.
The well-regarded state-funded musicconservatoryConservatorio Statale di Musica Nicola Sala inBenevento near Naples is named for him.[2]
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