Giovanni Battista Pergolesi
Italian composer, violinist and organist (1710–1736)
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ItalyHe died of tuberculosis at twenty-six, having written four operas. One of them — a comic servant-upends-master piece called La serva padrona — changed how Europe thought about comedy on stage, and his Stabat Mater became one of the most performed sacred works ever written.
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Giovanni Battista Pergolesi was born Giovanni Battista Draghi on 4 January 1710, and became a leading composer, violinist, and organist of the Neapolitan school. In his few active years before tuberculosis killed him on 16 or 17 March 1736, he completed four operas and a handful of other works whose influence far outlasted their number. La serva padrona helped spread opera buffa across Europe; L'Olimpiade was called one of the finest opere serie of the early eighteenth century. His Stabat Mater joined the canon of sacred music's essential works. Twenty-six years, a small catalog, and a legacy…
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- La serva padrona / Livietta e Tracollo2025
- Nisi Dominus, Stabat Mater2020
- The Grand Mogul: Virtuosic Baroque Flute Concertos2019
- Vivaldi: Stabat Mater / Pergolesi: Stabat Mater2016
- Adriano in Siria2016
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- Pantheon 2.0High confidencedatabase · pantheon.world
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