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PIETRO GUGLIELMI (1727-1804)

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Originally appearing in Volume V12, Page 674 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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PIETRO

GUGLIELMI (1727-1804)  ,
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Italian composer, was born at
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Massa Carrara in May 1727, and died in Rome on the 19th of November 1804 . He received his first musical
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education from his
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father, and afterwards studied under Durante at the Conservatorio di
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Santa Maria di
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Loreto at Naples . His first operatic
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work, produced at
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Turin in 1755, established his reputation, and soon his fame spread beyond the limits of his own country, so that in 1762 he was called to
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Dresden to
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con-duct the opera there . He remained for some years in Germany, where his
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works met with much success, but the greatest triumphs were reserved for him in England . He went to
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London, ac-cording to Burney, in 1768, but according to Florimo in 1772, returning to Naples in 1777 . He still continued to produce operas at an astounding
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rate, but was unable to compete successfully with the younger masters of the day . In 1793 he became
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maestro di cappella at St Peter's, Rome . He was a very prolific composer of Italian comic opera, and there is in most of his scores a vein of humour and natural gaiety not surpassed by 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
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mechanical and slip-shod writing in his
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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

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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 style, and Giacomo, an excellent singer .

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