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Giovanni Battista Pergolesi

4 jan 1710 (Jesi) - 16 mar 1736 (Pozzuoli)

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Catholic Encyclopedia - Catholic Encyclopedia entry notes his torn allegiances between sacred and secular music, mentions the delicate nature of his works coming from his own nature, and comments on his poor health.
HOASM - Biography from the Here Of A Sunday Morning radio program with education, appointments and commissions, major works, misattributions, partial discography, and related topics.
The Pergolesi Research Center - Project of CUNY's Brook Center for Music Research and Documentation. Provides brief biography and background of the project to catalogue his genuine compositions.
Giovanni B. Pergolesi - Entry at the Lied and Arts Songs Text Page with list of vocal works and lyrics.
Giovanni Battista Pergolesi - Filmography at IMDb with list of movies using or based on his compositions.
Giovanni Battista Pergolesi - Brief entry with the Classical Composers Database notes conflicts for his birth date.
Giovanni Battista Pergolesi - Lyric Opera of Los Angeles provides a biography focusing on his operatic output, noting how various successes or failures led him to and from working in the genre.
Giovanni Battista Pergolesi (1710 - 1736) - Karadar dictionary entry with life, works, portraits, caricature, program and manuscript copies, related composers, MIDI audio sample, and operas and Stabat Mater, some with libretti.
Giovanni Battista Pergolesi (1710-1736) - Brief biographical sketch, caricature, summaries of operatic, orchestral, chamber, and church music, and Naxos discography.
Giovanni Battista Pergolesi (1710-36) - Lists him among the premier musicians and composers of the early 1700s, especially for his contributions to opera buffa. Also notes his religious works, especially the Stabat Mater.
Giovanni Pergolesi - Find A Grave entry with summary of brief life and wide-ranging works, portrait, picture of cenotaph at Church of St. Anthony of Padua, Pazzuoli, Italy, and interactive memorial.
Pergolesi, Giovanni Battista - Biography from Timothy A. Smith's Sojourn pages with portrait, related composers, and explanations of terms.
Pergolesi, Giovanni Battista - Grove Concise Dictionary of Music entry at WQXR radio includes life, posthumous growth of fame, musical developments, selected works, and rightly and wrongly attributed compositions.

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