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GROSSI, GIOVANNI FRANCESCO (?–1699)

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GROSSI, GIOVANNI See also:FRANCESCO (?–1699) , one of the greatest See also:Italian singers of the See also:age of See also:bel See also:canto, better known as Sif See also:ace, was See also:born at See also:Pescia in See also:Tuscany about the See also:middle of the 17th See also:century. He entered the papal See also:chapel in 1675, and later sang at See also:Venice. He derived' his See also:nickname of Siface from his impersonation of that See also:character in an See also:opera of See also:Cavalli. It has generally been said that he appeared as Siface in Alessandro See also:Scarlatti's Mitridate, but the confusion is due to his having sung the See also:part of Mitridate in Scarlatti's Pompeo at See also:Naples in 1683. In 1687 he was sent to See also:London by the See also:duke of See also:Modena, to become a member of the chapel of See also:James II. He probably did much for the introduction of Italian See also:music into See also:England, but soon See also:left the See also:country on See also:account of the See also:climate. Among See also:Purcell's See also:harpsichord music is an See also:air entitled " Sefauchi's Farewell." He was murdered in 1699 on the road between See also:Bologna and See also:Ferrara, probably by the agents of a nobleman with whose wife he had a liaison. See Corrado See also:Ricci's Vita Barocca (See also:Milan, 1904).

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