Domenico Cimarosa, Italian composer and educator (died 1801)

Domenico Cimarosa

Italian composer (1749–1801)

Domenico Cimarosa was an Italian composer of the Neapolitan School and of the Classical period. He wrote more than eighty operas, the best known of which is Il matrimonio segreto (1792); most of his operas are comedies. He also wrote instrumental works and church music.