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GROSSI, GIOVANNI FRANCESCO (?1699)

This article appears in Volume V12, Page 618 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

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GROSSI, GIOVANNI FRANCESCO (?1699) , one of the greatest Italian singers of the age of bel
canto
 , better known as Sif ace, was born at Pescia in Tuscany about the middle of the 17th
century
 . He entered the papal chapel in 1675, and later sang at Venice. He derived' his nickname of Siface from his impersonation of that
character
  in an opera of
Cavalli
 . It has generally been said that he appeared as Siface in Alessandro Scarlatti's Mitridate, but the confusion is due to his having sung the
part
  of Mitridate in Scarlatti's Pompeo at Naples in 1683. In 1687 he was sent to London by the duke of Modena, to become a member of the chapel of James II. He probably did much for the introduction of Italian music into England, but soon left the country on account of the climate. Among Purcell's
harpsichord
  music is an air entitled " Sefauchi's Farewell." He was murdered in 1699 on the road between Bologna and Ferrara, probably by the agents of a nobleman with whose wife he had a liaison.
See Corrado Ricci's Vita Barocca (
Milan
 , 1904).


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