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Cimarosa, Domenico

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CIMAROSA, DOMENICO. - Italian opera composer of the 18th century, b. at Aversa in 1749. He studied in Naples with the organist P. Polcabo and then at the conservatory of S. M. di Loreto (1761-72) with Manna, Sacchini, Fenaroli and then with Piccinni. He was at the court of St. Petersburg (1787-91), summoned there by Catherine II, in Vienna, in Naples and finally in Venice, where he d. on 11 Jan. 1801.

He composed various oratorios: Assalonne (1782), Betulia liberata, Giuditta, Iefte, Il sacrificio d'Abrana, preserved in manuscripts in private and public libraries of Rome, Naples, Vienna and Dresden, and sacred music, including masses and motets (manuscripts in Naples, Milan, Berlin, Brussels, Einsiedeln, London and Munich).

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BIBL.: F. Florimo, La scuola musicale di Napoli, Naples 1880-82; A. Bonaventura, D. C., Turin 1915; R. Vitale, D. C.: la vita e le opere, Aversa 1929.

Luisa Cervelli

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Translated from the Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. III (1949), coll. 1616–1617.

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Cervelli, Luisa. “Cimarosa, domenico.” In Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. III, coll. 1616–1617. Città del Vaticano: Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1949. https://azioneromana.com/article/cimarosa-domenico.

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Cervelli, Luisa. “Cimarosa, domenico.” Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. III, Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1949, coll. 1616–1617. Azione Romana, https://azioneromana.com/article/cimarosa-domenico.

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@incollection{ec3_cimarosa_domenico,
  author    = {Cervelli, Luisa},
  title     = {Cimarosa, domenico},
  booktitle = {Enciclopedia Cattolica},
  volume    = {III},
  pages     = {1616--1617},
  note      = {Cited by column},
  publisher = {Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico},
  address   = {Città del Vaticano},
  year      = {1949},
  url       = {https://azioneromana.com/article/cimarosa-domenico}
}

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