Domenico Cimarosa

Domenico Cimarosa , 1749-1801, Italian operatic composer. He wrote almost 80 operas, which were successfully produced in Rome, Naples, Vienna, and St. Petersburg. His works, of which Il matrimonio segreto (1792) is the best known, are good examples of pure opera buffa. He also wrote serious operas and church and instrumental music notable for its clear and Mozartean effect.

Cimarosa, Domenico (1749–1801) Italian composer. He wrote more than 60 operas, his most famous being Il matrimonio segreto, which was first performed in Vienna in 1792. He also wrote seven cantatas and six oratorios.

Cimarosa, Domenico (b Aversa, Naples, 1749; d Venice, 1801). It. composer. Studied in Naples, where he wrote Le stravaganze del conti, first of his 65 operas. Worked in Rome and Naples until 1787 when he went to St Petersburg as court composer to Catherine II where his operas were less successful than those of his deputy, Soler. In 1791 succeeded Salieri as court Kapellmeister to Leopold II in Vienna, writing Il matrimonio segreto there. Returned to Naples 1792 as choirmaster to the king. Sentenced to death 1799 for supporting French republican army but reprieved on condition he left Naples. Wrote orch. works incl sym., ob. conc., and Sinfonia Concertante for 2 fl., and over 30 kbd. sonatas. Among his huge output of operas are: Le stravagante del conte (1772); Il tre amanti (1777); Il matrimonio per raggio (c.1778–9); L'italiana in Londre (1779); Il pittor parigino (1781, rev. as Il barone burlato, 1784, and as Le brame delusa, 1787); Chi dell'altrui si veste presto si spoglio (1783); I due baroni di Rossi Azzurra (1783); Artaserse (1784); I due supposti conti (1784); L'impresario in angustie (1786); Il fanatico burlato (1787); Il matrimonio segreto (1792); I traci amanti (1793); Le astuzie femminili (1794); Penelope (1795); Gli Orazi ed i Curiazi (1796); L'apprensivo raggirato (1798).