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Events on Sunday 11 January 1801 1
1749 – 1801Domenico Cimarosa (1749-1801)Died 11 January 1801, aged 51Italian composer Domenico Cimarosa died in Venice on 11 January 1801, having fled Naples after being imprisoned and sentenced to death for supporting the short-lived Parthenopean Republic. He was among the most celebrated opera composers of his era, best known for the comic opera Il matrimonio segreto. His death sentence had been commuted to exile shortly before he died.