May 9 - Giovanni Paisiello (The Musical Birthday Series, 3rd Annual Cycle)

Previous posts for May 9th may be found here: Giovanni Paisiello (2019) and Anne Sophie von Otter; Billy Joel (2020)

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Giovanni Paisiello (9 May 1740 – 5 June 1816) was one of the preeminent opera composers of the Haydn-Mozart generation.

 

Reflected Glory

“Nel cor più non mi sento,”

Would be a quaint memento

    Of Paisiello’s operatic days,

But Beethoven perused it

And subsequently used it

    In pages every piano student plays.

And thus old Paisiello

Remains a famous fellow —-

    The Muses work in most mysterious ways.

 

 

 

 

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