DOMENICO CIMAROSA (1749-1801) Italian Composer. Domenico Cimarosa Free midi downloads.

DOMENICO CIMAROSA
17^thDecember 1749 --- 11^thJanuary 1801

Domenico Cimarosa was a Italian musical composer who was born at Aversa, in the kingdom of Naples in 1749. His parents were poor, but anxious
to give their son a good education and after moving to the city of Naples, they sent him to a free school connected with one of the monasteries of
that city. He then obtained a free scholaship at the musical institute of Santa Marie di Loreto, where he remained for eleven years, studying chiefly
under the great masters of the old Italian school, Piccini, Sacchini and other musicians of repute are mentioned amonst his teachers

At the age of 23 Cimaroa began his career as a composer with the comic opera called Le Stavaganze Del Conte, first performed at the Teatro deo
Florentini at Naples in 1772. The work met with the approval as did its successors Le Pazzie di Stellidanza e di Zoroastro, a farce full of humour and
eccentricity, and another comic opera called L'Italiana in Londra. From 1784-87 Cimarosa lived in Florence, and wrote the following works for the
theatre of that city Caio Mario, the three biblical operas, Assalone, La Giuditta and Il Sacificio d'Abramo and he also composed a petty comic Opera
that was first performed at Venice with enormous success

About the year 1788 Cimarosa went to St Petersburg (Leningrad) by invitation of the Empress Catherine II. in 1792 he went back to Vienna at the
invitation of the Emperor Leopold II. Here he produced his masterpiece, Il Matrimonio Segreto, which ranks amongst the highest achievements of
light operatic music. In 1793 he returned to Naples, where Il Matrimonio Segreto and other works were received with great applause. Amongst the
works belonging to his last stay in Naples may be mentioned the charming opera Le astuzie Feminili, which during the 1940's and early 1950's had
been adapted with great success as one of the productions of the Diaghilev Ballet.

It was during this late period in his life that it is said that he had become ebittered by the intrigues of envious and hostile persons, amongst whom
figured his old rival Paisiello, During the occupation of Naples by the troops of the French Republic, Cimarosa joined the Liberal party, and on the
return of the Bourbons was like many of his political friends, condemned to death. By the intercesion of some influential admirers his sentence was
commuted into banishment, but his health was broken, and after much suffering he died at Venice in 1801 of inflammation of the intestines, by the
nature of his disease had led to the rumour of his having been poisoned by his enemies, which however, a formal inquest proved to be unfounded

Copyright 1953 Encyclopaedia Britannica

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And now for the Music

Thanks to John Cowles for the music below.

New (3277)"Sonata No.6". Sequenced by John Cowles.

(211)"Sonata No.8". Sequenced by John Cowles.

New (3276)"Il Matrimonio Segreto Overture". Sequenced by Fernando Battaglino.

Thanks to David Lovell for the music below.

New (3275)"Sonata in B minor". Sequenced by David Lovell.

New (3274)"Unknown piece". Sequenced by David Lovell.

New (3273)"Armida No.1, not sure on title". Sequenced by Sondrio.

New (3272)"Armida No.2, not sure on title". Sequenced by Sondrio.

New (3271)"Sodomi, not sure on title". Sequencer Unknown.

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