A Dictionary of Music and Musicians/Albergati, Pirro

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From volume 1 of the work.

1502400A Dictionary of Music and Musicians — Albergati, PirroGeorge Grove


ALBERGATI, Count Pirro Capacelli, of an ancient family in Bologna, lived in the end of the 17th and beginning of the 18th centuries, an amateur, and distinguished composer. His works include the operas 'Gli Amici' (1699), 'Il Principe selvaggio' (1712), the oratorio 'Giobbe' (Bologna, 1688), sacred cantatas, masses, motetts, etc., and compositions for various instruments.