Pergolesi, Giovanni Battista

(1710-1736)

An Italian Baroque composer, violinist and organist, is considered to be one of the greatest Italian musicians of the first half of the 18th-century and is one of the most important representatives of the Neapolitan school. Although he died at the age of 26, he composed a wealth of music in different genres, notably operas, sacred music and instrumental music, much of which has survived to the present day.