Giovanni Paisiello

Giovanni Paisiello (or Paesiello; 9 May 1740 – 5 June 1816) was an Italian composer of the Classical era, and was the most popular opera composer of the late 1700s. His operatic style influenced Mozart and Rossini. Life Paisiello was born in Taranto in the Apulia region and educated by the Jesuits there. He became known for his beautiful singing voice and in 1754 was sent to the Conservatorio di S. Onofrio at Naples, where he studied under Francesco Durante, and eventually became assistant master. For the theatre of the Conservatorio, which he left in 1763, he wrote some intermezzi, one of which attracted so much notice that he was invited to write two operas, La Pupilla and Il Mondo al Rovescio, for Bologna, and a third, Il Marchese di Tidipano, for Rome. Works Operas * R 1.00 La moglie in calzoni (18.2.1764, Modena) * R 1.01 Il ciarlone (12.5.1764, Bologna) – lost * R 1.02 I francesi brillanti (24.6.1764, Bologna) * R 1.03 Madama l’umorista, o Gli stravaganti (26.1.1765, Modena) – lost * R 1.04 L’amore in ballo (carnival 1765, Venice S Moisè) * R 1.05 La mascherata delle nozze di Bacco e d’Arianna (11.2.1765, Modena) * I bagni d’Abano (spring 1765, Parma) * Il negligente (1765, P