Niccolò Jommelli

Italian composer, 1715-1774.

Jommelli wrote 220 stage works, including more than 60 operas, as well as numerous oratorios, cantatas, masses and chamber music. In 1750, he was appointed vice-chapelmaster at St Peter's Basilica in Rome at the call of the Pope, and from 1753 he was court chapelmaster at the court of Duke Carl Eugen von Württemberg in Stuttgart.