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Death Anniversary: Giovanni Battista Pescetti — March 20, 1766

20 March 2027

Venice

He died in Venice on 20 March 1766. A pupil of Antonio Lotti, he achieved acclaim with operas for Venetian theatres before moving to London in 1736, where he directed the Opera of the Nobility in direct rivalry with Handel. His published collection of nine keyboard sonatas of 1739 stands as an inventive bridge between baroque counterpoint and galant style.

A note on this date. The exact day of birth is unrecorded in Venetian parish records (c. 1704); we celebrate his verified death anniversary on 20 March. We publish it with the warning rather than leave the page out, and if you can point us to a register or an archive that carries it we will confirm or correct it.

Dates verified on Treccani, DBI, vol. 82 (2015), voce "PESCETTI, Giovanni Battista" (https://www.treccani.it/enciclopedia/giovanni-battista-pescetti_(Dizionario-Biografico)/); Grove Music Online, entry "Pescetti, Giovanni Battista" (https://doi.org/10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.article.21404).

Travel tips from CHO

Go on the first Sunday of the month

State museums, archaeological parks and monuments across Italy open free of charge on the first Sunday of every month. It covers state-run sites only — civic and private museums set their own prices — and there is nothing to claim: you simply walk in.

The ministry’s free days →

In September, the doors that are usually shut open

For one long weekend every September, some fifty European countries run the European Heritage Days together: palaces, workshops, archives and private houses that are closed the rest of the year let visitors in, almost always for nothing. Italy sets its own dates, and they are published a few weeks ahead.

Dates, country by country →

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