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Also Known As Nicola Antonio Giacinto Porpora
Born August 17, 1686 • Naples • Italy
Died March 3, 1768 (aged 81) • Naples • Italy
Alessandro Scarlatti, detail of a portrait by an unknown artist, 1692; in the Palacio del Duque de Hijar, Epila, Spain
Alessandro Scarlatti
Italian composer
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Giovanni Battista Pergolesi
Italian composer
Gioachino Rossini
Gioachino Rossini
Italian composer
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Antonio Sacchini
Italian composer
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Niccolò Jommelli
Italian composer
Piccinni, engraving by J.F. Schroter
Niccolò Piccinni
Italian composer
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Leonardo Leo
Italian composer
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Leonardo Vinci
Italian 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
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Vincent d’Indy
French composer
Johann Adolph Hasse, engraving by J.F. Kauxe after a portrait by P. Rotari
Johann Adolph Hasse
German composer
Giuseppe Verdi
Giuseppe Verdi
Italian composer
Strozzi, Bernardo: portrait of Claudio Monteverdi
Claudio Monteverdi
Italian composer and musician
Giacomo Puccini
Giacomo Puccini
Italian composer
Domenico Scarlatti, engraving.
Domenico Scarlatti
Italian composer
Antonio Vivaldi
Antonio Vivaldi
Italian composer
Donizetti, Gaetano
Gaetano Donizetti
Italian opera composer
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Francesca Caccini
Italian composer and singer
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Giovanni Pacini
Italian composer
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Alfredo Catalani
Italian composer