A Dictionary of Music and Musicians/Olimpiade

OLIMPIADE. An opera of Metastasio's, written to celebrate the birthday of the Empress Elizabeth, wife of Charles VI, Emperor of Germany in 1733. It supplies a good instance of the persistent adherence of the composers of the last century to one libretto, having been composed no less than 31 times, by the following composers—Caldara (1733), Pergolesi, Leo, Duni, Scolari. Latilla, Perez, Sarti, Hasse, Piccinni (2), Bernasconi, Gassmann, Bertoni, Jomelli, Cafaro, J. C. Bach, Traetta, Arne, Anfossi, Mysliwecz, Andreozzi, Schwanberg, Gatti, Borghi, Paisiello-Federici, Reichardt, Tarchi, Perrino, Conti (1829), as given in Clement's Dict. Lyrique.

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