Cristiano Giuseppe Lidarti

While at University in Vienna, studying philosophy and law, he also began to learn to play the harp and harpsichord.

Until 1784 he was a musician at chapel of the Cavalieri di S. Stefano in Pisa.

[1] In 1770, the English musician Charles Burney met Lidarti in Pisa during his travels in Italy.

Most of Lidarti's compositions were for chamber ensembles; they also include a number of concertos.

[2] Lidarti is noted for his oratorio Ester (Hebrew: תשועת ישראל על ידי אסתר - The Salvation of Israel by the Hands of Esther) composed in 1774 to a Hebrew libretto for the Jewish community in Amsterdam, for which he also wrote some settings of religious music.