Giovanni Antonio Giai

(1690-1764)

"The Italian Comedy" (1714), oil on canvas, 37 x 48 cm, of the painter Jean-Antoine Watteau, contemporary of Giai (Staatliche Museen, Berlin)

The musician Giovanni Antonio Giai (Giay) was born in Torino in 1690, the same year of the composers Baccelli, Baldassare, Barsanti, Bergiron, Brescianello, Chelleri, Ciampi, Collin (Colin) de Blamont, Porta, Prota, Stölzel, Tessarini. He died in Torino on the 10th September 1764

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Giovanni Antonio Giai

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"Il trionfo d'Amore o La fillide" was performed in Torino in 1715 (Teatro Regio)

"Sesostri, re d'Egitto" was performed in 1717 in Torino (Teatro Carignano)

"Artenice" was performed in Torino in 1723

"Publio Cornelio Scipione" was performed in 1726 in Torino

"Il Tammerlano" (serenata) was performed in Milano in 1727

"I veri amici" (serenata) has been represented in 1728 in Torino

"Mitridate" has been represented in 1730 in Venezia

"Demetrio" was performed in Roma in 1732

"Eumene" has been represented in Torino in 1737

"Gianguir" has been represented in 1738 in Venezia

"Adriano in Siria" was performed in 1740 in Venezia

"Fetonte sulle rive Po" was performed in 1750 in Torino

"Le tre dee riunite" has been represented in 1750 in Madrid

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