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Оглавление(1749–1801)
Il Matrimonio Segreto (1792)
Most of his eighty stage works are forgotten now, but in his time, Cimarosa was probably the most prolific and successful opera composer in Europe, notwithstanding the fact that he was a contemporary of Mozart. After studies in Naples he moved to St Petersburg as court composer to Catherine the Great, but failed to please his patron. Moving on to Vienna, he took a similar position with Emperor Leopold II, and it was there that his most enduring work, Il Matrimonio Segreto, was premiered. Cimarosa had the added distinction of being sentenced to death for revolutionary tendencies. The sentence was reduced to imprisonment and exile, and he died in Venice, allegedly from poisoning.
