De Giardini was a well known vi­o­lin­ist, com­pos­er and di­rect­or. He sang as a choir boy in Mi­lan, It­a­ly, and stu­died music in Tu­rin. In the 1730s, he be­gan play­ing the vi­o­lin in or­ches­tras, and toured Eur­ope in the 1750s. He then moved from Italy to Lon­don where he was in­volved with the op­era. He al­so worked as mu­sic mas­ter for the Duke of Glou­ces­ter. In 1796, de Gi­ar­di­ni moved to Mos­cow, but died in po­ver­ty short­ly af­ter. His works in­clude:

• Enea e Lavinia, 1764, an opera
• Ruth, 1763-68, an oratorio

Sources

Music

1. Athens
2. Italian Hymn