Complete Encyclopaedia of Music/B/Barbella, Emanuele

by John Weeks Moore

Barbella, Emanuele. A modest, ingenious musician, and true follower of Tartini's principles on the violin. He studied composition under the celebrated Leo, and pleasantly re-marks of himself, that, "notwithstanding this advantage, Barbella is a mere ass, who knows nothing." He died at Naples in 1773. Some of Barbella's compositions for the violin have been published in England.