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Death Anniversary: Pietro Domenico Paradies — August 25, 1791

25 August 2027

Venice

He died in Venice on 25 August 1791 at eighty-four years old. A pupil of Nicola Porpora in Naples, he settled in London in 1746 where he was sought after as a premier harpsichord and singing teacher; his published collection of twelve Sonate di gravicembalo of 1754, including the famous Toccata in A major, remains a cherished gem of eighteenth-century keyboard literature.

A note on this date. The exact day of birth is unrecorded in Neapolitan parish archives (c. 1707); we celebrate his verified death anniversary on 25 August. 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. 81 (2014), voce "PARADISI, Pietro Domenico" (https://www.treccani.it/enciclopedia/pietro-domenico-paradisi_(Dizionario-Biografico)/); Grove Music Online, entry "Paradisi, Pietro Domenico" (https://doi.org/10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.article.20847).

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