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Italian composer (1717?1765)
Pietro Chiarini
(circa 1717;
Brescia
? 1765;
Cremona
) was an Italian composer.
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From 1738 to 1744, he was in Venice where four of his operas and an
oratorio
were performed. Later he went to Cremona, where in 1754 he wrote and presented the
intermezzo
La donna dottor
. He was later appointed
maestro di cappella
at the court of Cremona in 1756. It is speculated that
Giovanni Battista Pergolesi
's opera
Il geloso schernito
may in fact have been composed by Chiarini and not Pergolesi.
Operas
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- Argenide
(libretto by
Girolamo Alvise Giusti
, opera seria, 1738, Venice)
- Arianna e Teseo
(opera seria, 1739,
Brescia
)
- L'Issipile
(libretto by
Pietro Metastasio
, opera seria, 1740,
Brescia
)
- Il finto pazzo
(libretto by
Carlo Goldoni
after
La contadina astuta
by Tommaso Mariani, intermezzo, 1741, Venice)
- Achille in Sciro
(libretto by
Pietro Metastasio
, opera seria, 1739)
- Artaserse
(libretto by
Pietro Metastasio
, opera seria, 1741,
Verona
)
- Statira
(libretto by
Carlo Goldoni
, opera seria, 1741,
Venezia
)
- Amor fa l'uomo cieco
(libretto by
Carlo Goldoni
, intermezzo, 1742,
Verona
)
- Il Ciro riconosciuto
(libretto by
Pietro Metastasio
, opera seria, 1743,
Verona
)
- I fratelli riconosciuti
(opera seria, 1743,
Verona
)
- Meride e Salimunte
(libretto by
Apostolo Zeno
, opera seria, 1744,
Venezia
)
- Alessandro nelle Indie
(libretto by
Pietro Metastasio
, opera seria, 1744,
Verona
)
- Il geloso schernito
(libretto by
Giovanni Bertati
, intermezzo, 1746)
- La Didone abbandonata
(libretto by
Pietro Metastasio
, opera seria, 1748,
Brescia
)
- La donna dottoressa
(intermezzo, 1754,
Cremona
)
- Ezio
(libretto by
Pietro Metastasio
, opera seria, 1757,
Cremona
)
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