Domenico Cimarosa: His Life and His Operas

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This text presents Domenico Cimarosa's work - his operas, sacred and secular vocal music, his keyboard music, and his various works for solo instruments and ensembles. The authors completed most of their research work at the library of the Consevatotio di musica S Pietro a Majella in Naples. Their effort uncovered information on the composers' marriages, wives, children, actual performance locations, dates of first performances of his operas, and his professional appointments and contacts.

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.,."Rossi and Fauntleroy have advanced considerably our knowledge of the composer and his operas."-The State
...Rossi and Fauntleroy have advanced considerably our knowledge of the composer and his operas.-The State
Illustrated and thoroughly indexed, the volume makes a valuable contribution to the 18th-century opera scholarship and to an understanding of the work of a long-neglected Mozart contemporary.-Choice
..."Rossi and Fauntleroy have advanced considerably our knowledge of the composer and his operas."-The State
"Illustrated and thoroughly indexed, the volume makes a valuable contribution to the 18th-century opera scholarship and to an understanding of the work of a long-neglected Mozart contemporary."-Choice

Author Bio

NICK ROSSI was the author of fifteen books on music, including Music Through the Centuries, Hearing Music: An Introduction, and Opera in Italy Today: A Guide. He was Administrative Director of Studio Lirico in Cortona, Italy. TALMAGE FAUNTLEROY is currently the Director of OPERA at USC, University of South Carolina, and Artistic Director of Opera Carolina Theater in Charlotte, North Carolina.