Galuppi’s secular vocal chamber music comprises at least around ten works, in varied vocal and instrumental combinations, and belongs mostly to his final creative period. These compositions are of great interest both on account of the intrinsic quality of their texts and through the artistic maturity of the composer. Galuppi’s cantata La scusa for alto/contralto and strings – based on a poetry by Pietro Metastasio – has come down to us through an autograph manuscript, dated 1780, preserved in Ve...