biography
| name: |
Pergolesi, Giovanni Battista
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pronunciation:
[pergolayzee]
| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1710–36)
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| biography:
| Composer, born in Jesi, EC Italy. He attended the Conservatorio dei Poveri di Gesù Cristo at Naples, became a violinist, and in 1732 was appointed maestro di cappella to the Prince of Naples. His comic intermezzo La serva padrona (1732) was highly popular, and influenced the development of opera buffa. He wrote much church music, and in 1736 left Naples for a Capuchin monastery at Pozzuoli, where he composed his great Stabat Mater. |
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