Baldassare Galuppi was a Venetian composer of the late Baroque and early Classical (galant) periods, born on the island of Burano in the Venetian Republic. He spent most of his career based in Venice, holding posts at St Mark’s Basilica and the Ospedale dei Mendicanti, while also working for extended periods in Vienna, London, Saint Petersburg, and Florence. His enormous output includes roughly 109 operas, both opera seria and comic dramma giocoso, many written in collaboration with the playwright Carlo Goldoni, alongside sacred music such as masses and motets, and numerous keyboard sonatas and concertos. He died in Venice in 1785 after a two-month illness.

Galuppi is credited as one of the principal architects of comic opera, with his dramma giocoso collaborations with Goldoni marking a genuine new beginning for musical theatre by integrating music more fully with dramatic action, and his large-scale buffo ensemble finales influencing the later comic works of Haydn and Mozart. His sacred compositions written during his years in Saint Petersburg also had a lasting effect on Russian Orthodox liturgical music. Though largely neglected after his death, his music has undergone substantial rediscovery and revival since the late 20th century, and he is now recognized as a pivotal figure in the transition from Baroque to Classical style.

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