Giovanni Battista Pergolesi

Giovanni Battista Pergolesi

Giovanni Battista Draghi (Italian: [dʒoˈvanni batˈtista ˈdraːɡi]; 4 January 1710 – 16 or 17 March 1736), usually referred to as Giovanni Battista Pergolesi (Italian: [perɡoˈleːzi; -eːsi]), was an Italian Baroque composer, violinist, and organist, leading exponent of the Baroque; he is considered one of the greatest Italian musicians of the first half of the 18th century and one of the most important representatives of the Neapolitan school. Despite his short life and few years of activity (he died of tuberculosis at the age of 26), he managed to create works of high artistic value and historical importance, among which we remember La serva padrona (The Maid Turned Mistress), of the highest importance for the development and diffusion of the opera buffa in Europe, L'Olimpiade, considered one of the masterpieces of the opera seria of the first half of the eighteenth century, and the Stabat Mater, among the most important works of sacred music of all time. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Giovanni Battista Pergolesi has received more than 543,987 page views. His biography is available in 50 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 49 in 2019). Giovanni Battista Pergolesi is the 67th most popular composer (down from 61st in 2019), the 267th most popular biography from Italy (down from 234th in 2019) and the 14th most popular Italian Composer.

Giovanni Battista Pergolesi is most famous for composing the opera "La Serva Padrona" in 1733.