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ANFOSSI (Anfossi) Pasquale (25 IV 1727, Taj, near Naples - Feb. 1797, Rome) - Italian composer. In 1737-47, he studied violin at the Conservatory of Santa Maria in Naples with F. Barbella and N. Vitolo, then studied with N. Piccinni and A. Sacchini (composition), from 1742 - with F. Durante (composition and playing harpsichord). At the same time. played in the orchestra. He worked in Naples, Rome, Venice, Paris. In 1781-83, the conductor of the Italian Theater. Opera in London. The author of St. 70 operas (40 preserved). The first - “Faithful Women” (“Le Donne fedeli”) was a post. in 1758 (Naples). Success and popularity brought him the opera The Haunted Stranger (L 'Incognita persequitata, post. 1773, Rome). Among the most famous operas of A . : The Triumph of Women (Il Trionfo delle donne, 1778), The Imaginary Gardener (La Finta giardiniera, 1775). A. staged his operas in Prague, Berlin, Dresden, Rome,Naples. A number of operas A. was a post. In Petersburg. From 1792 he took the place of hands. Chapels of San Giovanni at the Lateran Cathedral in Rome. During this period he wrote ch. arr. church. music (oratorios, cantatas, masses, psalms, etc. ). Themes of operas A. used in some of his op. young V. A. Mozart.