A Dictionary of Music and Musicians/Siroe, Re di Persia

by George Grove

SIROE, RE DI PERSIA. An opera of Metastasio's, remarkable for the number of times it has been set:—Vinci (Venice, 1726); Handel (London, Feb. 5, 1728); Wagenseil (Milan, 1730?); Bioni (Breslau, 1731); Hasse (Bologna, 1733); Vivaldi (Ancona, 1738); J. Cocchi (Naples, 1750); Manna (Venice, 1753); Lampugnani (Milan, 1755); Perez (Lisbon, 1756); Piccinni (Naples, 1759); Giardini (London, 1764); Buroni (Prague, 1764); Guglielmi (1765); Sarti (Turin, 1783); Ubaldi (Turin, 1810?)—are all named by Clement as following one another in this curious course, a course inconceivable at present, though common in the 18th century.

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