Anfossi, Pasquale (1727–1797)

Italian composer, a pupil of Niccolò Piccinni at Naples. He wrote operas from 1763, but had his first real success with L'incognita perseguitata (Rome, 1773). He later produced operas in Paris, London (he was a music director of the King's Theatre 1782–86), Berlin, and Prague. In 1762 he became maestro di cappella of St John Lateran in Rome. Mozart wrote insertion arias for two of his operas.

Works Opera Armida (Turin, 1770), L'incognita perseguitata (Rome, 1773), La finta giardiniera (Rome, 1774), Il geloso in cimento (Vienna, 1774), L'avaro (Venice, 1775), La vera costanza (Rome, 1776), Gengis-Kan (Turin, 1777), Il curioso indiscreto (Rome, 1777), I viaggiatori felici (Venice, 1780), Le gelosie fortunate (Turin, Carignano, 1783).

Other church music.