In music history, the Neapolitan School is a group, associated with opera of 18th-century composers who studied or worked in Naples, Italy, the best known of whom is Alessandro Scarlatti, with whom "modern opera begins". "It is with the Neapolitan school...that the History of Modern Music commences—insofar as that music speaks the language of the feelings, emotions, and passions." — Schluter The Neapolitan School has been considered in between the Roman School and the Venetian School in importan

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