1700 ca, ITALY: The celebrated italian Neapolitan music and Baroque Opera composer NICOLA Antonio Giacinto PORPORA (Niccolò or Nicolò, 1686 ca 1766). Portrait engraved by G. Magonio, 1837. Teacher of singing whose most famous singing student was the castrato Farinelli (Carlo Maria Michelangelo Nicola Broschi). Other students included composers Matteo Capranica and Joseph Haydn.