Egidio Romualdo Duni

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Egidio Romualdo Duni (February 11, 1708 - June 11, 1775) was an Italian^{[citation needed]} composer who studied in Naples and worked in Italy, France and London, writing both Italian and French operas.

Born in Matera, Duni was taught music by his father, Francesco Duni, and two sisters. At the age of nine, he was accepted at the Conservatorio di Santa Maria di Loreto, near Naples. There he worked with Giovanni Battista Pergolesi, Giovanni Paisiello, Leonardo Vinci, and other masters of Italian opera.

He died in Paris.

[edit] Major works

• Nerone (1735)
• Demofoonte (1737)
• L'Olimpiade (1755)
• Le peintre amoureux de son modèle (1757)
• La fille mal gardée (1758)
• Mazet (1761)
• Les deux chasseurs et la laitière (1763)
• La fée Urgèle (1765)
• La clochette (1766)
• Les moissonneurs (1768)