Cesare Bossi

Cesare Bossi (1773—September 1802) was an Italian-born composer. He is most known as a composer of ballets which he wrote for the King’s Theatre in Haymarket in London. Career Bossi was born in Ferrara in 1773. None of the sources provide information about his training or early career. One source states that while in Italy he wrote operas as well as piano music including sonatas. There he became associated with the King’s Theatre in Haymarket where he was a composer of ballets, a conductor, and responsible for the musical preparation of operas. “In this task there have been few who could excel him.” - Alonzo the Brave and the Fair Imogene 26 March 1801 Charles Didelot co-composed with Vincenzo Federici - L’amant statue 21 April 1796 Giacomo Onorati - L’amour vangé 2 June 1796 Charles Didelot - Apollon berger 27 December 1796 Sébastian Gallet - Bacchus and Ariadne 28 November 1797 Sébastian Gallet - Barader 29 May 1800 James Harvey D’Egville - La chasse d’amour 2 January 1798 Sébastian Gallet - Cinderella or The glass slipper 1803? - Constante et Alcidonis 1798 Sébastian Gallet - Les délassements militaires 16 January 1797 Sébastian Gallet co-composed with Joseph Mazzinghi - The des