Complete Encyclopaedia of Music/A/Alberti, Dominico

by John Weeks Moore

Alberti, Dominico. A Venetian amateur, pupil of Biffi and of Lotti. He astonished Farinelli, in Spain, by his talent in singing. In 1737, he set to music the "Eadymion" of Metastasio, and, a short time after, the "Galatea" of the same author. He died at Rome very young. He was also the composer of thirty-six sonatas in a new style. Dr. Burney highly valued the vocal compositions of Alberti, which are little known in England, and were, indeed, scarce every where, even at the time the doctor was on the continent