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Giovanni Battista Pergolesi

Giovanni Battista Pergolesi is an act on the Starverb influence map. Their sound grew out of Alessandro Scarlatti. Those roots explain a lot about how Giovanni Battista Pergolesi arrange songs and choose their tones. They run in the same orbit as Henry Purcell, Georg Friedrich Händel, Franz Joseph Haydn, Leoš Janáček and Johann Pachelbel, sharing audiences, venues and reference points rather than a straight line of influence. Their influence carried into Johann Sebastian Bach and Igor Stravinsky, where the same ideas turn up rearranged for a later generation. Altogether the chart holds 23 connections around Giovanni Battista Pergolesi, reaching back through Alessandro Scarlatti and forward to Johann Sebastian Bach. Follow any of those threads to keep travelling the influence between bands and genres on Starverb.

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Giovanni Battista Draghi, usually referred to as Giovanni Battista Pergolesi, was an Italian Baroque composer, violinist, and organist, leading exponent of the Baroque; he is considered one of the greatest Italian musicians of the first half of the 18th century and one of the most important representatives of the Neapolitan school.

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Giovanni Battista PergolesiAlessandro ScarlattiJohann Sebastian BachIgor StravinskyHenry PurcellGeorg Friedrich HändelFranz Joseph HaydnLeoš JanáčekJohann PachelbelGiovanni Pierluigi d…AnonymousLuigi Boccherini

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Giovanni Battista Pergolesi connections

Giovanni Battista Pergolesi grew out of Alessandro Scarlatti, shares an orbit with Henry Purcell, Georg Friedrich Händel, Franz Joseph Haydn and Leoš Janáček, went on to shape Johann Sebastian Bach and Igor Stravinsky. 23 connections mapped across roots, kindred and legacy.

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