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Gaetano Donizetti
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“ Domenico Gaetano Maria Donizetti (; 29 November 1797 – 8 April 1848) was an Italian composer from Bergamo, Lombardy. His best-known works are the operas L'elisir d'amore (1832), Lucia di Lammermoor (1835), and Don Pasquale (1843), all in Italian, and the French operas La favorite and La fille du régiment (both from 1840). Along with Vincenzo Bellini and Gioachino Rossini, he was a leading composer of bel canto opera.Biography
The youngest of three sons, Donizetti was born in 1797 in Bergamo's Borgo Canale quarter located just outside the city walls. His family was very poor with no tradition of music, his father being the caretaker of the town pawnshop. Nevertheless, Donizetti received some musical instruction from Simon Mayr, a German composer of internationally successful operas who had become maestro di cappella at Bergamo's principal church in 1802.
Donizetti was not especially successful as a choirboy, but in 1806 he was one of the first pupils to be enrolled at the Lezioni Caritatevoli school, founded by Mayr, in Bergamo through a full scholarship. He received detailed training in the arts of fugue and counterpoint, and it was here that he launched his operatic career. After some minor compositions under the commission of [......] ”
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Begin date: 11/29/1797
End date: 04/08/1848
Similar artists: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Пётр Ильич Чайковский, Maurice Ravel, Johann Strauss II, Ludwig van Beethoven, Camille Saint-Saëns, Johann Sebastian Bach, Georg Philipp Telemann, Hector Berlioz, Gustav Mahler
Links
- BBC Music page: http://www.bbc.co.uk
- biography: http://www.pbs.org
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