Introduction

Biography

De Gi­ar­di­ni was a well known vio­lin­ist, com­pos­er and di­rect­or.

He sang as a choir boy in Mi­lan, It­aly, and stu­died mu­sic in Tur­in.

In the 1730s, he be­gan play­ing the vio­lin in or­ches­tras, and toured Eur­ope in the 1750s.

He then moved from It­aly to Lon­don, where he was in­volved with the op­era. He al­so worked as mu­sic mas­ter for the Duke of Glou­ces­ter.

In 1796, de Gi­ar­di­ni moved to Mos­cow, but died in po­ver­ty short­ly af­ter.

Works

• Enea e La­vin­ia, an op­era, 1764
• Ruth, an ora­to­rio, 1763–68