Classification · Italy
1749 – 1801
Aversa - Venice
Review
Formed in Naples, he became one of the most applauded opera composers in Europe. Between 1787 and 1791 he worked in St. Petersburg for Catherine the Great, and later was a chapel teacher in Vienna.
There he premiered in 1792 Il marrito segreto, which liked Emperor Leopold II so much that he had it repeated the whole night. For supporting the Napolitana Republic of 1799 he was imprisoned; he died shortly afterwards in Venice.
Main works
- Opera L'italiana in Londra (1779)
- Intermezzo Il maestro di cappella
- Opera Il marrito segreto (1792)
- Opéra Gli Orazi e i Curiazi (1796)
- Concert for two flutes in larger sun
- Keyboard tunes
- Réquiem in the lower sun
