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People In Music History
Pergolesi, Giovanni Battista (1710-1736) Italian composer, also violinist and
church organist who wrote serious and comic operas, including the enormously
successful The Maid as Mistress (La Serva padrona). Imported into France, it
provoked a quarrel between supporters of French and Italian opera -- the so
-called "War of the Buffoons." After his death, in order to capitalize on his
popularity, many works not his were ascribed to him and still commonly are.
These included the opera The Music Master, concertinos for strings, the songs
"Se tu m'ami" (used by Stravinsky in Pulcinella) and "Tre giorni son che Nina."
Authentic works include a Stabat Mater for male soprano and alto with
orchestral accompaniment.