Gioacchino Cocchi

(b ?Naples, c 1720; d ?Venice, after 1788). Italian composer. He had over 30 operas performed in Italy, 1743-56; his greatest success was La maestra (1747, Naples). He also wrote oratorios as choir director at the Ospedale degli Incurabili, Venice, 1750-57. In 1757-62 he was music director at the King's Theatre, London, producing nine of his own operas. He worked as a singing teacher and concert director before returning to Venice c 1772.

Gioacchino Cocchi (circa 1720 – 1804) was an Italian composer.

He was particularly famous for his theatre music (he wrote approximately fifty operas). His first works were performed at Naples and Rome. From 1750 to 1757 he stayed in Venice, where he became chapel master of the Ospedale degli Incurabili (from 1752). He also taught composition to Andrea Luchesi (1756/57). In 1757 he travelled to London, where he stayed till 1772. He came back to Venice in 1773.

External links

• The Mutopia Project has compositions by Gioacchino Cocchi
• Free scores by Gioacchino Cocchi in the International Music Score Library Project

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