Domenico Cimarosa (1749-1801)
Italian composer of the Classical Period.
Wrote more than 80 operas, and other works, instrumental and vocal.
Domenico came from a very poor family.
He attended a free school in Naples.
Impressed by the boy's intellect, his teachers kept him in school and
introduced him to the rudiments of music.
During the French Republic occupation, he was imprisoned and
given a death sentence. However, he was later freed.
He later died, due to health problems acquired during his imprisonment.
Cimarosa's best-known work is Il Matrimonio Segreto which was written in 1792.
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