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Giovanni Battista Pergolesi: Quick Facts

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Facts

Born January 4, 1710 • Jesi • Italy
Died March 16, 1736 (aged 26) • Pozzuoli • Italy
Notable Works “La serva padrona”
Movement / Style Baroque music
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Marc-Antoine Charpentier
French composer
Alessandro Scarlatti, detail of a portrait by an unknown artist, 1692; in the Palacio del Duque de Hijar, Epila, Spain
Alessandro Scarlatti
Italian composer
Gioachino Rossini
Gioachino Rossini
Italian composer
Strozzi, Bernardo: portrait of Claudio Monteverdi
Claudio Monteverdi
Italian composer and musician
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Antonio Sacchini
Italian composer
Cherubini, Luigi
Luigi Cherubini
Italian composer
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Niccolò Jommelli
Italian composer
Piccinni, engraving by J.F. Schroter
Niccolò Piccinni
Italian composer
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Nicola Porpora
Italian vocal teacher
Domenico Scarlatti, engraving.
Domenico Scarlatti
Italian composer
Antonio Vivaldi
Antonio Vivaldi
Italian composer
Jean-Baptiste Lully, engraving by Geille after Johannot, c. 1830.
Jean-Baptiste Lully
French composer
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Benedetto Marcello
Italian composer
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Austrian composer
Joseph Haydn
Joseph Haydn
Austrian composer
Gounod, Charles
Charles Gounod
French composer
Poulenc
Francis Poulenc
French composer
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Johann Caspar von Kerll
German composer
Painting by Elias Gottlieb Hausmann of Johann Sebastian Bach wearing a dark coat with a white shirt and holding a sheet of music in his left hand.
Johann Sebastian Bach
German composer
Oil portrait of composer Georg Frideric Handel by Thomas Hudson, showing Handel in a red coat with gold trim, white wig, and holding a sheet of music.
George Frideric Handel
German-English composer