Giuseppe Ferdinando Brivio (c. 1700,

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– c. 1758, Milan) was an Italian

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, and

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who is chiefly known for his

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s. His work displays a natural expression and uses figurations similar to that of

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Life and career

He was born in Milan. The earliest record of Brivio was in a court document indicating his position as a violinist at the

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in 1720. He soon after to become the music director at the Royal Palace's theatre where he remained until 13 October 1732. He later returned to the theater in c.1738 and remained active there through 1742. At the Teatro Ducale his first known opera, ''Ipermestra'', premiered on 6 December 1727. While in Milan he also ran an influential school of singing. Two of his notable pupils were

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and Caterina Visconti. Brivio went on to write five more operas: ''L'Olimpiade'' (premiere 5 March 1737,

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), ''Artaserse'' (premiere 2 June 1738, Teatro degli Obizzi di Padova), ''Merope'' (premiere 26 December 1738, Teatro Ducale di Milano), ''La Germania trionfante in Arminio'' (premiere 2 May 1739, Teatro Ducale di Milano) and '' Alessandro nell'Indie'' (premiere carnival 1742, Teatro Ducale di Milano). His music was also used in three

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mounted at the King's Theatre,

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during the 1740s, ''Gianguir'' (premiere 2 November 1742), ''Mandane'' (premiere 12 December 1742), and ''L'incostanza delusa'' (premiere 9 February 1745). The final stage work to use his music was another pasticcio, ''L'Olimpiade'', which premiered at the Teatro Marsigli-Rossi di Bologna on 10 May 1755. Besides opera, Brivio produced a small amount of instrumental music. One of his two known

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s was included in a well known publication of Italian music by French parliamentarian

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, alongside composers Angelo Maria Scaccia and Carlo Zuccari. Brivio died in Milan around 1758.

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