Domenico Cimarosa
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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; most of his operas a
Cimarosa as a child
Cimarosa composing
Palazzo Duodo, Campo Sant'Angelo, Venice, Cimarosa's last home, where he died
San Michele Arcangelo, known as Sant'Angelo or, in the Venetian dialect, Sant’Anzolo, was a church in Venice. Located in the sestiere of San Marco, in the square named for it, Campo Sant'Angelo, it wa
Domenico Cimarosa
…A rumour spread that he had been poisoned by agents of the Bourbons, but an inquest showed it to be unfounded. He was buried in the now destroyed Church of St. Michael the Archangel, near where he had lived in Venice. Although Cimarosa wrote a considerable quantity of instrumental and church music, he was, and remains, best known…
View of the Campo Sant'Angelo by Canaletto, showing San Michele Arcangelo with its campanile
San Michele Arcangelo in the view of Venice by Jacopo de' Barbari, 1500