Pergolesi, Giovanni Battista
(1710–1736)> COMPOSER
Pergolesi, Giovanni Battista (4 January 1710, Jesi; 16 March 1736, Pozzuoli), composer, was admitted to the music conservatory for poor children in Naples in 1725. He distinguished himself by his work for his teachers who included Greco, Francesco Durante, and Feo. His ability won him a teaching position at the Conservatory of the Madonna of Loreto between 1725 and 1728. His first attempt at a dramatic composition was his La Conversione di San Guglielmo (1731) given at a monastery and furnished…