Giovanni Battista Pergolesi
![Purported portrait of Pergolesi donated by [[Francesco Florimo]] to the Naples Conservatory in 1874<ref>This portrait has recently been sometimes attributed to [[Domenico Antonio Vaccaro]] (e.g. {{cite book | last=De Simone|first=Roberto|author-link=Roberto De Simone |editor-last1=Bauduin |editor-first1=Mariano |editor-last2=Mancusi |editor-first2=Franco | title=Omaggio a Giovan Battista Pergolesi 1710–2010 | date=2010 | publisher=Grimaldi | location=Naples|page=6|isbn=978-88-89879-62-7|postscript=0 }}), which would effectively date it back to Pergolesi's time. Thus far, however, this attribution has not been shared by the site of the [https://www.sanpietroamajella.it/ritratti/ Naples Conservatory Museum], where the painting is kept, and, as a portrait of Pergolesi, it appears scarcely compatible with the two caricatures by Ghezzi, which are certainly authentic.</ref>](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/cc/Giovanni_Battista_Pergolesi.jpg)
Giovanni Battista Draghi (; 4 January 1710 – 16 or 17 March 1736), usually referred to as Giovanni Battista Pergolesi (), was an Italian Baroque composer, violinist, and organist, leading exponent of the Baroque; he is considered one of the greatest Italian musicians of the first half of the 18th century and one of the most important representatives of the Neapolitan school.Despite his short life and few years of activity (he died of tuberculosis at the age of 26), he managed to create works of high artistic value and historical importance, such as ''La serva padrona'' (''The Maid Turned Mistress''), which played an important role in the development and diffusion of the opera buffa in Europe, and ''L'Olimpiade'', considered one of the best of the opera seria of the first half of the 18th century, and the ''Stabat Mater'', among the most important works of sacred music of all time. Provided by Wikipedia
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