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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 allegiences 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 - 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 - Filmography at IMDb with list of movies using or based on his compositions.
  • 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.
  • Stabat Mater: Pergolesi - Composer information notes ill health, mentioning that this piece was probably his final composition. Includes general information about the work, illustrates it with a color bar, and compares ten CD recordings.

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