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Giovanni Battista Pergolesi
Giovanni Battista Pergolesi | |
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 Purported portrait of Pergolesi donated by Francesco Florimo to the Naples Conservatory in 1874[1] | |
| Born | Giovanni Battista Draghi 4 January 1710 |
| Died | 16 March 1736 (aged 26) |
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Giovanni Battista Draghi (Italian: [dʒoˈvanni batˈtista ˈdraːɡi]; 4 January 1710 – 16 or 17 March 1736), usually referred to as Giovanni Battista Pergolesi (Italian: [perɡoˈleːzi; -eːsi]), was an Italian Baroque composer, violinist, and organist, leading exponent of the Baroque; he is considered one of the greatest Italian musicians of the first half of the 18th century and one of the most important representatives of the Neapolitan school.
Despite his short life and few years of activity (he died of tuberculosis at the age of 26), he managed to create works of high artistic value and historical importance, among which we remember La serva padrona (The Maid Turned Mistress), of the highest importance for the development and diffusion of the opera buffa in Europe, L'Olimpiade, considered one of the masterpieces of the opera seria of the first half of the eighteenth century,[2] and the Stabat Mater, among the most important works of sacred music of all time.[3][4][5]
- ^ This portrait has recently been sometimes attributed to Domenico Antonio Vaccaro (e.g. De Simone, Roberto (2010). Bauduin, Mariano; Mancusi, Franco (eds.). Omaggio a Giovan Battista Pergolesi 1710–2010. Naples: Grimaldi. p. 6. ISBN 978-88-89879-62-70), which would effectively date it back to Pergolesi's time. Thus far, however, this attribution has not been shared by the site of the Naples Conservatory Museum, where the painting is kept, and, as a portrait of Pergolesi, it appears scarcely compatible with the two caricatures by Ghezzi, which are certainly authentic.
- ^ "...one of the finest opere serie of the early eighteenth century": Donald Jay Grout e Hermine Weigel Williams, A Short History of Opera (quarta edizione), New York, Columbia University Press, 2003, p. 229, ISBN 978-0-231-11958-0.
- ^ Will, Richard (2004). "Pergolesi's Stabat Mater and the Politics of Feminine Virtue" (PDF). The Musical Quarterly. 87 (3): 570–614. doi:10.1093/musqtl/gdh021. Archived from the original (PDF) on 5 June 2010. Retrieved 18 January 2023.
- ^ Steinberg, Michael (2006). Choral Masterworks: A Listener's Guide. Oxford University Press, USA. p. 115. ISBN 9780198029212.
- ^ Brook, Barry S. (1983). Pergolesi: research, publication and performance. The present state of studies on Pergolesi and his times. November 18–19, 1983, Jesi, Italy. ISBN 9780918728791.
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