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BERNARDO PASQUINI (1637-1710)

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Originally appearing in Volume V20, Page 885 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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PASQUINI (1637-1710)  , See also:Italian musical composer, was See also:born at See also:Massa in Val di Nievole (See also:Tuscany) on the 8th of See also:December 1637, He was a See also:pupil of See also:Marcantonio See also:Cesti and See also:Loreto Vittori . He came to See also:Rome while still See also:young and entered the service of See also:Prince See also:Borghese; later he became organist of St Maria See also:Maggiore . He enjoyed the See also:protection of See also:Queen See also:Christina of See also:Sweden, in whose See also:honour an See also:opera of his, Dov' e amore a pieta, was produced in 1679 . During Alessandro See also:Scarlatti's second sojourn in Rome (1703–1708), See also:Pasquini and See also:Corelli were frequently associated with him in musical performances, especially in connexion with the Arcadian See also:Academy, of which all three were members . Pasquini died at Rome on the 22nd of See also:November 1710, and was buried in the See also:church of St Lorenzo in See also:Lucina . He deserves remembrance as a vigorous composer for the See also:harpsichord; and an interesting See also:account of his See also:music for this See also:instrument will be found in J . S . Shedlock's The See also:Pianoforte See also:Sonata .

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