Perotti, Giovanni Domenico
Perotti, Giovanni Domenico
Perotti, Giovanni Domenico , Italian composer, brother of Giovanni Agostino Perotti; b. Vercelli, Jan. 20, 1761; d. there, March 24, 825. He was a student of Fioroni in Milan and Martini and Mettei in Bologna. From 1781 he served as maestro di cappella at Vercelli Cathedral. Among his output were the operas Zemira e Gandarte (Alessandria, 1787), Agesilao re di Sparta (Rome, 1789), and La vittima della propria vendetta (Venice, 1808), a Sym., 2 quartets, and several sacred works.
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