Tritto, Giacomo (1733–1824)

Italian composer. From around 1760 he wrote over 50 operas. He also wrote treatises on thorough-bass and counterpoint. A pupil of Cafaro at the Conservatorio dei Turchini in Naples, he later taught there and in 1806 became co-director (with Paisiello and Fenarolo).

Works Opera La fedeltà in amore (1764), Il convitato di pietra (on the Don Giovanni story), Arminio, La canterina, Gli Americani (1802), and Marco Albinio (1810).

Other Masses and other church music.