Pergolesi

American

[per-gaw-le-zee] / ˌpɛr gɔˈlɛ zi /

noun

Giovanni Battista 1710–36, Italian composer.

Pergolesi British

/ perɡoˈleːsi /

noun

Giovanni Battista (dʒoˈvanni batˈtista). 1710–36, Italian composer: his works include the operetta La Serva padrona (1733) and the Stabat Mater (1736) for women's voices

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Others, like Lucía Pergolesi, are worried for the jobs people will lose.

From Seattle Times ● Dec. 13, 2023

Lucía Pergolesi regrets her best friend has been fired from her job in a government ministry.

From Seattle Times ● Dec. 13, 2023

Stravinsky’s score evokes the 1700s of Hogarth, Pergolesi and Mozart, infusing the airy, cool-water lucidity of that era with the angular rhythms and tart harmonies of the mid-20th century.

From New York Times ● May 31, 2022

In his later years, he copied everything from a Renaissance mass by Palestrina to the up-to-date Italianate lyricism of Pergolesi.

From The New Yorker ● Dec. 25, 2016

So he put his overcoat over his knee, and studied some music he had bought in Milan: some Pergolesi and the Scarlatti he liked, and some Corelli.

From Aaron's Rod by D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence

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