Please Select One of the Brothers Greco
| Gaetano Greco (ca. 1657 - 1728) |  |
| Rocco Greco (ca. 1650 - ca. 1718) | |
Gaetano and Rocco Greco, late seventeenth- and early eighteenth-century brother composers from the Corelli generation, were born in Naples, studied in in Naples, spent their working lives there, and died there. Rocco taught violin at the Conservatorio I Poveri di Gesù Cristo and played first violin in the royal chapel. Gaetano had a leading role in the same conservatory and composed extensively for keyboard and sacred vocal ensembles. Gaetano's many important pupils included Porpora, who in turn taught the great castrato singer Farinelli and later Joseph Haydn. |
