Giordani, Tommaso

1740-after 1816

Italian opera singer, composer and music teacher. Brother of preceding. Born at Naples, came of a musical family, and appeared as a comic opera singer at the Haymarket Theatre in 1762. Taught music in London for some time, then removed to Dublin, where he undertook the management of an opera company, later giving this up. He has written an oratorio, Isaac; and the operas, The Siege of Gibraltar, and Perseverance; a number of compositions for orchestral instruments; and piano-pieces and songs.