Pasquale Anfossi

Bonifacio Domenico Pasquale Anfossi (5 April 1727 – February 1797) was an Italian opera composer. Born in Taggia, Liguria, he studied with Niccolò Piccinni and Antonio Sacchini, and worked mainly in London, Venice and Rome. He wrote more than 80 operas, both opera seria and opera buffa, although he concentrated on church music, especially oratorios, during his last years. Anfossi died in Rome in 1797. Aiming at first to become a performer, he studied violin at the Neapolitan Loreto Conservatorium from 1744 to 1752