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Born January 4, 1710 • Jesi • Italy
Died March 16, 1736 (aged 26) • Pozzuoli • Italy
Notable Works “La serva padrona”
Movement / Style Baroque music
Alessandro Scarlatti, detail of a portrait by an unknown artist, 1692; in the Palacio del Duque de Hijar, Epila, Spain
Alessandro Scarlatti
Italian composer
Gioachino Rossini
Gioachino Rossini
Italian composer
Strozzi, Bernardo: portrait of Claudio Monteverdi
Claudio Monteverdi
Italian composer and musician
Marc-Antoine Charpentier
French composer
Antonio Sacchini
Italian composer
Cherubini, Luigi
Luigi Cherubini
Italian composer
Niccolò Jommelli
Italian composer
Piccinni, engraving by J.F. Schroter
Niccolò Piccinni
Italian composer
Nicola Porpora
Italian vocal teacher
Domenico Scarlatti, engraving.
Domenico Scarlatti
Italian composer
Antonio Vivaldi
Antonio Vivaldi
Italian composer
Jean-Baptiste Lully, engraving by Geille after Johannot, c. 1830.
Jean-Baptiste Lully
French composer
Benedetto Marcello
Italian composer
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Austrian composer
Joseph Haydn
Joseph Haydn
Austrian composer
Gounod, Charles
Charles Gounod
French composer
Leonard Bernstein
Leonard Bernstein
American composer and conductor
Poulenc
Francis Poulenc
French composer
Johann Caspar von Kerll
German composer
Johann Sebastian Bach
Johann Sebastian Bach
German composer