Giovanni Battista Pergolesi
Italian composer, violinist and organist (1710-1736) · Italy · Musicians · Died at 26
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Something wrong?He 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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PDPergolesi: Stabat Mater / Vivaldi: Nisi Dominus
PRPergolesi: Stabat Mater / Rossell: Salve Regina
SCStabat Mater (pour deux castrats)
PBPergolesi: Stabat Mater / Bach: Cantatas BWV 54 & 170
PSPergolesi: Stabat Mater / Scarlatti: Piano SonatasSNStabat mater, Marian Music from NaplesSPStabat Mater- Laudate PueriSMStabat Mater / Violin Concerto / Salve Regina in C minorAbout this person
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 that held.
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