Gaetano Greco (c. 1657c. 1728) was an

Italian Baroque Italian Baroque (or ''Barocco'') is a stylistic period in Italian history and art that spanned from the late 16th century to the early 18th century. History The early 17th century marked a time of change for those of the Roman Catholic religion ...

composer. He was the younger brother of Rocco Greco ( c.1650 - before 1718). Both brothers were trained at, and later taught at the Poveri di Gesu` Cristo conservatory in Naples. Gaetano Greco's teachers included

Giovanni Salvatore Giovanni Salvatore (ca.1620ca.1688) was a Neapolitan composer and organist. Salvatore was born in Castelvenere. He is thought to have studied under Giovanni Maria Sabino and Erasmo di Bartolo at the Conservatorio della Pietà dei Turchini, Nap ...

and

Gennaro Ursino Gennaro Ursino (1650-1715) was an Italian composer and teacher.Companion to Baroque music Julie Anne Sadie - 1998 Ursino, Gennaro (1650-1715). Neapolitan maestro di cappella and composer. Ursino was trained at the Conservatorio S Maria della Piet ...

, and possibly

Francesco Provenzale Francesco Provenzale (25 September 1632 – 6 September 1704) was an Italian Baroque composer and teacher. He is considered the founder of the Neapolitan school of opera. Notably Provenzale was the teacher of famed castrato 'il cavaliere ...

Dinko Fabris Dinko Fabris is an Italian musicologist. He specializes in lute music, the music of Naples, and Italian music in general, having written books on Italian composers such as Andrea Falconieri, Andrea Gabrieli, Francesco Provenzale and Francesco Ca ...

''Music in seventeenth-century Naples: Francesco Provenzale (1624-1704)'' p230 2007 "Gaetano's teachers were Giovanni Salvatore and Gennaro Ursino, but it is plausible that Greco also studied with Francesco Provenzale: the contract with the Eletti della Fedelissima Citta in 1701 is typical of a teacher-pupil ..." It is also possible that he studied with Alessandro Scarlatti.

Leonardo Vinci Leonardo Vinci (1690 – 27 May 1730) was an Italian composer known chiefly for his 40 or so operas; comparatively little of his work in other genres survives. A central proponent of the Neapolitan School of opera, his influence on subseque ...

, Giuseppe Porsile, Nicola Porpora, and Domenico Scarlatti (perhaps also Giovanni Battista Pergolesi) were among his pupils. His successor at the conservatory was Francesco Durante.

Works, editions and recordings

*''Tuoni ecclesiastici con li loro versetti''

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* Italian Baroque composers 1650s births 1720s deaths Italian male classical composers Musicians from Naples 18th-century Italian composers 18th-century Italian male musicians {{Italy-composer-stub