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This is a complete list of the operas of the Italian
composer A composer is a person who writes music. The term is especially used to indicate composers of Western classical music, or those who are composers by occupation. Many composers are, or were, also skilled performers of music. Etymology and def ...
Pasquale Anfossi Pasquale Anfossi (5 April 1727 – February 1797) was an Italian opera composer. Born in Taggia, Republic of Genoa, he studied with Niccolò Piccinni and Antonio Sacchini, and worked mainly in London, Venice and Rome. He wrote more than 80 ope ...
(1727–1797). Anfossi wrote at least 33
opere buffe Opera buffa (, "comic opera"; : ''opere buffe'') is a genre of opera. It was first used as an informal description of Italian comic operas variously classified by their authors as ''commedia in musica'', ''commedia per musica'', ''dramma bernesc ...
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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 ...
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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. It is the largest work on opera in English, and in its printed form, amounts to 5,448 pages in four volumes. The dictionary was first published in 1992 by Macmillan Reference, L ...
'', ed.
Stanley Sadie Stanley John Sadie (; 30 October 1930 – 21 March 2005) was a British musicologist, music critic, and editor. He was editor of the sixth edition of the '' Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians'' (1980), which was published as the first edition ...
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Warrack, John John Hamilton Warrack (born 9 February 1928) is an English music critic, writer on music, and oboist. Career Born in London, Warrack is the son of Scottish conductor and composer Guy Warrack and Jacynth Mary Ellerton. He was educated at Winchest ...
and West, Ewan (1992), ''The Oxford Dictionary of Opera'', 782 pages, {{DEFAULTSORT:Anfossi, Pasquale Lists of operas by composer Lists of compositions by composer