Domenico Cimarosa was an Italian composer of the Neapolitan School and of the Classical period. He wrote more than eighty operas, the best known of which is Il matrimonio segreto (1792); most of his operas are comedies. He also wrote instrumental works and church music.
Domenico Cimarosa
Domenico Cimarosa
Palazzo Duodo, Campo Sant'Angelo, Venice, Cimarosa's last home, where he died
In Italy, music has traditionally been one of the cultural markers of Italian national and ethnic identity and holds an important position in society and in politics. Italian music innovation – in musical scale, harmony, notation, and theatre – enabled the development of opera, in the late 16th century, and much of modern European classical music – such as the symphony and concerto – ranges across a broad spectrum of opera and instrumental classical music and popular music drawn from both native and imported sources.
Italian composers Rossini, Bellini, Ricci, Mercadante and Donizetti
Giuseppe Verdi, one of the most popular and acclaimed opera composers.
Antonio Vivaldi
Domenico Scarlatti