Giovanni

GIOVANNI BATTISTA PERGOLESI

3rd January 1710 --- 17th March 1736

Pergolesi was  an Itatain musical composer,  he was born at Jesi  near Acona in 1710.   He was sent by a noble patron  to complete his education at Naples,
where he became a pupil of Greco, Durante and Feo for composition and of Domenico de Matteis for the violin. His earliest lnown composition was a sacred
drama of, La Converisione di S.Gugliemo d'Aquitania,  between the acts of which was  given the comic intermezzo Ll Maestro di musica.   These works were
performed in 1731, probably by fellow pupils, at the monastery of St. Agnello Maggiore.

Pergolesi was then commissioned to write an opera for the court theatre,  and in the winter of 1731 he successfuly produced La Sallustia, followed in 1732
by Ricimero,  which was a failure. Both operas had a comic intermezzi,  but in neither case were they successful.   After this he abandoned the theatre for a
time and wrote thirty sonatas for two violins and brass for the prince of Stigliano.

In September 1732 he returned to the stage with a comic opera in Neapolitan dialect, Lo Frate inammorato, which was well received and in 1733 Pergolesi
produced a serious opera,  Ll Prigionier,  to which the celebrated Serva padeona furnished the intermezzi. At this time (1733-1734) pergolesi accompanied
the duke Maddaloni to Rome.   The failure of L'Olimpiade at Rome in January 1735 was followed by a conspicuous success with his comic opera Ll Flaminio
at Naples in September of the same year.

In 1736 he was sent by the duke Maddaloni to the Capuchin monastery at Pozzuoli, the air of the place being considered beneficial to cases of consumption.
Here he is supposed to have written the celebrated Stabat Mater,  Paisiello, however,  stated that this work was written soon after he left the Conservatorio
dei poveri di Gesu Cristo in 1729.

Of quite a different nature was Pergolesi humorous, not to say improper, Scherzo fatto ai Cappuccini di Pozzuoli. Pergolesi died prematurly in 1736, and was
buried in the cathedral of Pozzuoli.

Copyright 1953 Encyclopaedia Britannica

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