Giordani

GIORDANI. An Italian musical family of the 18 th century, consisting of a father, three sisters, and two brothers, who played little comic operas in one of the Neapolitan theatres till 1762, when the whole troupe migrated to London, with the exception of the younger brother, Giuseppe, then but nine, who remained behind to learn composition in the Conservatorio di Loreto, where he had Cimarosa and Zingarelli for his fellow students. The Giordani family came out at the Haymarket Theatre,...