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Pietro Domenico Paradisi (also Pier Domenico Paradies) (Naples, 1707 - Venice, August 25 1791) was a composer, harpsichordist and harpsichord teacher, most prominently known for his composition popularly entitled "Toccata in A".

Biography

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He was a pupil of Porpora, in which time he brought out several operas in Italy. In 1747 went to London, where he anglicized his name to Pier Domenico Paradies. During the London years he earned a living mainly as a teacher of harpsichord playing, but also produced an opera Fetonte (January 17th 1747) and also published 12 "sonate de gravicembalo" (London, 1754).

Towards the the end of his life, Paradies returned to Italy. Some of his manuscript works are preserved in the Fitzwilliam Museum at Cambridge, and his sonatas were brought out by G. Benvenuti and D. Cipollini in Milan (1920).

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