Giovanni Battista Pergolesi
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Giovanni Battista Draghi, usually referred to as Giovanni Battista Pergolesi, was an Italian Baroque composer, violinist, and organist, leading exponent of the Baroque; he is considered one of the gre
Purported portrait of Pergolesi donated by Francesco Florimo to the Naples Conservatory in 1874
Monument to Giovanni Battista Pergolesi in Jesi
Neapolitan School
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In music history, the Neapolitan School is a group, associated with opera, of 17th and 18th-century composers who studied or worked in Naples, Italy, the best known of whom is Alessandro Scarlatti, wi
Giovanni Battista Pergolesi
…he is considered one of the greatest Italian musicians of the first half of the 18th century and one of the most important representatives of the Neapolitan school. Despite his short life and few years of activity (he died of tuberculosis at the age of 26), he managed to create works of high artistic value and…
Teatro di San Carlo, Naples, Italy.
Church of Santa Maria della Colonna, where the Conservatorio dei Poveri di Gesù Cristo was located
Alessandro Scarlatti
Manuscript score by Alessandro Scarlatti of the opera Griselda (1721), act I, scene I