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Birth Anniversary: Domenico Cimarosa — December 17, 1749
17 December 2026
Aversa
Born at Aversa, north of Naples, on 17 December 1749, the son of a mason who died soon after, in a house in the Vico Trinità. He trained at the conservatory of Santa Maria di Loreto in Naples and became the most widely performed composer of comic opera in Europe in the 1780s and 1790s.
Dates verified on Treccani, Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani; MusicBrainz artist authority; Wikidata.
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