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GUGLIELMI, PIETRO (1727-1804)

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GUGLIELMI, PIETRO (1727-1804) , See also:Italian composer, was See also:born at See also:Massa See also:Carrara in May 1727, and died in See also:Rome on the 19th of See also:November 1804. He received his first musical See also:education from his See also:father, and afterwards studied under See also:Durante at the Conservatorio di See also:Santa Maria di See also:Loreto at See also:Naples. His first operatic See also:work, produced at See also:Turin in 1755, established his reputation, and soon his fame spread beyond the limits of his own See also:country, so that in 1762 he was called to See also:Dresden to See also:con-duct the See also:opera there. He remained for some years in See also:Germany, where his See also:works met with much success, but the greatest triumphs were reserved for him in See also:England. He went to See also:London, ac-cording to See also:Burney, in 1768, but according to Florimo in 1772, returning to Naples in 1777. He still continued to produce operas at an astounding See also:rate, but was unable to compete successfully with the younger masters of the See also:day. In 1793 he became See also:maestro di cappella at St See also:Peter's, Rome. He was a very prolific composer of Italian comic opera, and there is in most of his scores a vein of See also:humour and natural gaiety not surpassed by See also:Cimarosa himself. In serious opera he was less successful. But here also he shows at least the qualities of a competent musician. Considering the enormous number of his works, his unequal workmanship and the frequent instances of See also:mechanical and slip-shod See also:writing in his See also:music need not surprise us. The following are among the most celebrated of his operas: I Due Gemelli, La Serva inamorata, La Pastorella nobile, La.

Bella Peccatrice, Rinaldo, Artaserse, Didone and Enea e Lavinia. He also wrote oratorios and See also:

miscellaneous pieces of orchestral and chamber music. Of his eight sons two at least acquired fame as musicians—Pietro Carlo (1763-1827), a successful imitator of his father's operatic See also:style, and Giacomo, an excellent See also:singer.

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