Arrigoni, Carlo
Arrigoni, Carlo
Arrigoni, Carlo, Italian composer; b. Florence, Dec. 5, 1697; d. there, Aug. 19, 1744. He left Italy as a young man. In 1732 he was invited to London by a group favorable to Italian composers in opposition to Handel, where his opera Fernando was premiered on Feb. 5, 1734. His oratorio Esther was first performed in Vienna in 1738, and then his operas Sirbace and Scipione nelle Spagne in Florence in 1739. He also publ. 1O Cantate da camera (London, 1732).
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