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Pasquale Anfossi Pasquale Anfossi (5 April 1727 – February 1797) was an Italian opera composer. Born in Taggia, Liguria, he studied with Niccolò Piccinni and Antonio Sacchini, and worked mainly in London, Venice and Rome. He wrote more than 80 operas, both '' ...
(1727–1797). Anfossi wrote at least 33 opere buffe and
drammi giocosi ''Dramma giocoso'' (Italian, literally: drama with jokes; plural: ''drammi giocosi'') is a genre of opera common in the mid-18th century. The term is a contraction of ''dramma giocoso per musica'' and describes the opera's libretto (text). The g ...
, 26 drammi per musica ( opere serie), 8
farse Farse may refer to: * Farsa (plural ), a genre of opera * Farse (band), a five-piece ska-punk band from Birmingham in the West Midlands of England See also * Farce Farce is a comedy that seeks to entertain an audience through situations that a ...
and
intermezzi In music, an intermezzo (, , plural form: intermezzi), in the most general sense, is a composition which fits between other musical or dramatic entities, such as acts of a play or movements of a larger musical work. In music history, the term ha ...
, and 1 'azione drammatica giocosa' (a one-act genre).


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Anfossi page at Operone.de, retrieved 9 November 2009
* Robinson, Michael F., and Hunter, Mary (1992), "Anfossi, Pasquale" in ''
The New Grove Dictionary of Opera ''The New Grove Dictionary of Opera'' is an encyclopedia of opera, considered to be one of the best general reference sources on the subject. It is the largest work on opera in English, and in its printed form, amounts to 5,448 pages in four volu ...
'', ed.
Stanley Sadie Stanley John Sadie (; 30 October 1930 – 21 March 2005) was an influential and prolific British musicology, musicologist, music critic, and editor. He was editor of the sixth edition of the ''Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians'' (1980), whi ...
(London) *
Warrack, John John Hamilton Warrack (born 1928, in London) is an English music critic, writer on music, and oboist. Warrack is the son of Scottish conductor and composer Guy Warrack. He was educated at Winchester College (1941-6) and then at the Royal College ...
and West, Ewan (1992), ''The Oxford Dictionary of Opera'', 782 pages, {{DEFAULTSORT:Anfossi, Pasquale Lists of operas by composer Lists of compositions by composer