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Domenico Cimarosa
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| The orphan of poor parents, Cimarosa had a free musical education at the St. Maria di Loreto Conservatoire in Naples where he developed as a gifted singer and composer. By the mid-1780s he was one of the most popular comic opera composers of his day. From 1787 to 1791 he was maestro di cappella at the court of Catherine the Great in St. Petersburg. In 1791, the year of Mozart's death, he was invited to Vienna by Emperor Leopold II and there he composed his most famous opera "Il matrimonio segreto". His later association with republicans in Naples led to a brief period of imprisonment before his death in Venice in 1801. MIDI FILE -Sonata for harpsichord (complete) (9'46'') 
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In addition to his vast output of operas, Cimarosa also wrote sacred works, concertos and keyboard sonatas. The opera "Il matrimonio segreto" is partly based on the English comedy "The Clandestine Marriage" by David Garrick and George Colman.
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