Editing Domenico Cimarosa (section)

===Early years===
Cimarosa was born in [[Aversa]], a town near [[Naples]]. His family name was Cimmarosa, which is how he is recorded on his baptismal record. He appears to have been an only child.<ref name=rf15>{{harvnb|Rossi|Fauntleroy|1999|pp=15, 17}}</ref> His father, Gennaro, was a stonemason, and within days of Domenico's birth the family moved to Naples where Gennaro found employment on the construction of the [[Palace of Capodimonte]].<ref name=rf15/> When Domenico was seven, Gennaro fell from scaffolding and was killed. His widow, Anna, was taken on as a laundress by the monastic order of the Church of San Severo, and Cimarosa received a good education—including musical training—from the monks and clergy of the church.{{sfn|Rossi|Fauntleroy|1999|p=17}} The organist of the monastery, Padre Polcano,{{sfn|Chisholm|1911|p=367}} took a particular interest in his education and Cimarosa progressed so well in his musical studies that he was admitted to Naples's leading college of music, the Conservatorio di S Maria di Loreto, in 1761, when he was twelve.<ref name=rc>[[Richard Capell|Capell, Richard]], "Per il bicentenario della nascita di Domenico Cimarosa", ''[[Music & Letters]]'', October 1950, pp. 350–352 {{JSTOR|730501}} {{subscription required}}</ref> His teachers were [[Gennaro Manna]] and [[Fedele Fenaroli]] for composition and Saverio Carcais, the ''maestro de violino''.<ref name=grove>Johnson Jennifer E and Gordana Lazarevich. [https://doi.org/10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.article.05785 "Cimarosa, Domenico – Life"], ''Grove Music Online'', Oxford University Press, 2001. Retrieved 21 November 2018 {{subscription required}}</ref> He was a capable keyboard player, violinist and singer, but composition was his primary concern as a student; in 1770 he, [[Niccolò Antonio Zingarelli]] and [[Giuseppe Giordani]] were senior students in the composition class.<ref name=grove/>

As a student, Cimarosa wrote sacred motets and masses, but he first came to public notice with the premiere in 1772 of his first ''commedia per musica'', ''[[Le stravaganze del conte]]'', performed at the [[Teatro dei Fiorentini]] in Naples. The work met with approval, and was followed in the same year by ''Le pazzie di Stelladaura e di Zoroastro''. This work was also successful, and the fame of the young composer began to spread all over Italy. In 1774, he was invited to Rome to write an opera for the ''stagione'' of that year; and there he produced another comic opera called ''[[L'Italiana in Londra|L'italiana in Londra]]''.{{sfn|Chisholm|1911|p=367}}<ref name=grove/> In 1777 he married Constanza Suffi, who died the following year.<ref name=grove/>