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Rossi, Giacomo

Rossi, Giacomo

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Rossi, Giacomo

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Rossi, Giacomo

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Oxford University Press

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New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, 2001

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(fl 1710–31). Italian librettist. He was one of many Italians who settled in London early in the 18th century, perhaps as a language teacher. Late in 1710 he was employed by Aaron Hill to versify the scenario he had prepared from Tasso’s Gerusalemme liberata for Handel’s first London opera, Rinaldo. In an apologetic address to the reader of the lib...

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TN_cdi_oup_grovemusic_10_1093_gmo_9781561592630_article_23884

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10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.article.23884

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