Gasparini, Francesco (1668–1727)

Italian composer. He wrote over 60 operas, as well as choral and church music. He was also highly regarded as a teacher. His treatise ‘L'armonico pratico al cimbalo’ was published in 1708.

He was a pupil of Arcangelo Corelli and Bernardo Pasquini. He later became choirmaster at the Ospedale della Pietà, Venice, and in 1725 was appointed maestro di cappella of the church of St John Lateran, Rome.

Works Opera 61 operas, including Il più fedel fra i vassalli, La fede tradita e vendicata (1704), Ambleto (on Shakespeare's Hamlet, 1705).

Choral and church music oratorios Mosè liberato dal Nilo, La nascita di Cristo, and Le nozze di Tobia (1724); church music; cantatas.