Baldassare Galuppi
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Baldassare Galuppi was a Venetian composer, born on the island of Burano in the Venetian Republic. He belonged to a generation of composers, including Johann Adolph Hasse, Giovanni Battista Sammartini
Galuppi by a Venetian artist, bearing date 1751
Statue of Galuppi in the main square of Burano, the Piazza Galuppi
The King's Theatre, Haymarket, London
Catherine the Great
Adriano in Siria is a libretto by Italian poet Metastasio first performed, with music by Antonio Caldara, in Vienna in 1732, and turned into an opera by more than 60 other composers during the next ce
Metastasio by Batoni
Title page of a 1752 version of the libretto, for the performance in Dresden of the Johann Adolph Hasse opera
Bust of Sabina (Collection of the Getty Villa, Los Angeles)
Parthian Empire