Giuseppe Scarlatti

Giuseppe Scarlatti (1718 or 18 June 1723, Naples – 17 August 1777, Vienna) was a composer of opere serie and opere buffe.

He worked in Rome from 1739 to 1741, and from 1752 to 1754 in Florence, Pisa, Lucca and Turin.

From 1752 to 1754, and again from 1756 to 1759, he worked in Venice and for short periods in Milan and Barcelona.

In 1760 he moved to Vienna, where he enjoyed the friendship of Christoph Willibald Gluck.

Giuseppe Scarlatti was married to the Viennese singer Barbara Stabili who died about 1753.