Giovanni Battista Ferrandini (1710 – 25 October 1791), an Italian

Italy

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 composer

Composer

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 of the Baroque

Baroque music

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 and Classical

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 eras, was born in Venice

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, Italy and died in Munich

Munich

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, at the age of 81.

The newly constructed Bavarian Court Theatre (Residenztheater) in Munich opened on 12 October 1753 with Ferrandini's opera "Catone in Utica". A recording of the opera made 250 years later in the same theatre is available (Oehms Classics OC 901).

Other operas: Giordo 1727, Il Sacrifico Invalido 1729, Adriano in Siria 1737.
Cantata "Il Pianto di Maria" 1739. Two recordings exist of his opera "Catone in Utica."
Music for the crowning of emperor Karl. VII. in Frankfurt 1742.

In 1755, Ferrandini retired to Padua

Padua

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In 1771, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

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 and his father Leopold Mozart

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 visited Ferrandini in Padua

Padua

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Composer of Il pianto di Maria or Giunta l'ora fatal a sacred cantatas that was misattributed to Handel

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 and given the HWV in his works of 234.