1680-1750 IT, Naples
Composer
Giuseppe Porsile (also Persile, Porcile, Porsille; Naples, 5 May 1680 - Vienna, 29 May 1750) was a Neapolitan composer and singing teacher. Giuseppe was son of one Carlo Porsile, composer of an opera Nerone (Naples, 1686). As a young man Giuseppe was well received for his sacred music at the Spanish Chapel in Naples and in 1695 invited to the principal capilla real in Barcelona. At this time he was one of many Neapolitan Musicians invited to serve the court of Charles II of Spain, and then Charles III