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17971818-18461848
an Italian composer. Along with Gioachino Rossini and Vincenzo Bellini, Donizetti was a leading composer of the bel canto opera style during the first half of the nineteenth century. Altogether, he composed about 75 operas, 16 symphonies, 19 string quartets, 193 songs, 45 duets, 3 oratorios, 28 cantatas, instrumental concertos, sonatas, and other chamber pieces.
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12/26/1830-Gaetano Donizetti's opera Anna Bolena premieres in Milan
05/12/1832-Gaetano Donizetti's opera L'elisir d'amore premieres in Milan
12/26/1833-Gaetano Donizetti's opera Lucrezia Borgia premieres in Milan
09/26/1835-Gaetano Donizetti's opera Lucia di Lammermoor premieres in Naples
02/11/1840-Gaetano Donizetti's Opera La Fille du Regiment premieres in Paris
12/02/1840-Gaetano Donizetti's opera La Favorite premieres in Paris
11/17/1842-Gaetano Donizetti's opera Linda di Chamounix is produced in London 
01/03/1843-Gaetano Donizetti's opera Don Pasquale premieres in Paris
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Domenico Gilardoni
...the composers Vincenzo Bellini (his first work) and Gaetano Donizetti. Most of his early work was for the Teatro Nuovo,...
Hippolyte-Julien-Joseph Lucas
...Euripides, Lope de Vega, and Calderón as well as Gaetano Donizetti's operas Belisario, Maria Padilla, and Linda di Chamounix....
Saverio Mercadante
...may not have retained the international celebrity of Gaetano Donizetti or Gioachino Rossini beyond his own lifetime, he...
Bartolomeo Merelli
...same time writing a number of librettos for Mayr, Gaetano Donizetti, Nicola Vaccai and other composers. He set up his...
Andrea Leone Tottola
...prolific Italian librettist, best known for his work with Gaetano Donizetti and Gioachino Rossini. It is not known when...
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Gaetano Donizetti17971818
 
18461848

Wilhelm Friedrich Ernst Bach1759, May 241780
 
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Ludwig van Beethoven1770, Dec1778
 
18261827, Mar 26
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Franz Schubert1797, Jan 311814
 
18281828, Nov 19
 an Austrian composer. Schubert died before his 32nd birthday, but was extremely prolific during h...
Wenzel Muller1767, Sep 261786
 
18301835, Aug 3
 an Austrian composer and conductor. He was a popular and prolific composer producing more than 25...
Ludwig Abeille1761, Feb 201782
 
18321838, Mar 2
 a German pianist and composer. He wrote several folk songs, concerts, and two operas, Amor und Ps...
Vincenzo Bellini1801, Nov 31807
 
18351835, Sep 23
 an Italian opera composer. His most celebrated works are the operas La sonnambula and Norma. On a...
Niccolo Paganini17821800
 
18361840
 an Italian violinist, violist, guitarist, and composer. He was the most celebrated violin virtuos...
Thomas Attwood [1]1765, Nov 231787
 
18381838, Mar 24
 an English composer and organist. His compositions, which show the influence of his teacher Wolfg...
Johan Olof Wallin1779, Oct 151837
 
 
18391839, Jun 30
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Karol Kurpinski1785, Mar 61797
 
18401857, Sep 18
 a Polish composer, conductor and pedagogue. Kurpinski was one of the most revered composers befor...
Erik Gustaf Geijer1783, Jan 121803
 
18461847, Apr 23
 a Swedish writer, historian, poet, philosopher, and composer. His writings served to promote Swed...
Isaac Nathan1791 ca1813
 
18471864, Jan 15
 an Anglo-Australian composer, musicologist, journalist and self-publicist, who ended an eventful ...
Felix Mendelssohn1809, Feb 31818
 
18471847, Nov 4
 a German composer, pianist, organist and conductor of the early Romantic period. He was recognise...
Frederic Chopin1810, Mar 11817
 
18481849, Oct 17
 a Polish composer and virtuoso pianist of the Romantic era, who wrote primarily for the solo pian...
Louis Antoine Jullien1812, Apr 231826
 
18521860, Mar 14
 an eccentric French conductor and composer of light music. His fondness for the lighter forms of ...
Robert Schumann18101830
 
18541856
 a German composer and influential music critic. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest comp...
King Oscar I of Sweden1799, Jul 41844
 
18591859, Jul 8
  King of Sweden and Norway from 1844 to his death. When, in August 1810, his father Jean-Baptiste...
Giacomo Meyerbeer1791, Sep 51811
 
18611864, May 2
 a German opera composer of Jewish birth who has been described as perhaps the most successful sta...
Gioachino Rossini17921804
 
18641868
 an Italian composer who wrote 39 operas as well as sacred music, chamber music, songs, and some i...
August Wilhelm Bach1796, Oct 41832
 
18691869, Apr 15
 a German composer and organist. He is unrelated to the family of Johann Sebastian Bach. His compo...
Stephen C. Massettunknown1840
 
1869unknown
 San Francisco's first entertainer, Stephen C. Massett, was the true Bohemian type. He was an arti...
Saverio Mercadante1795, Sep1817
 
18701870, Dec 17
 an Italian composer, particularly of operas. While Mercadante may not have retained the internati...
Friedrich von Flotow18121835
 
18761883
 a German composer. He is chiefly remembered for his opera Martha, which was popular in the...
Pavel Krizkovsky1820, Jan 91845
 
18771885, May 8
 a Czech choral composer and conductor. Most of Krizkovsky's compositional output consists of chor...
Franz Liszt1811, Oct 221820
 
18851886, Jul 31
 a prolific 19th-century Hungarian composer, virtuoso pianist, conductor, music teacher, arranger,...
Eduard Lassen1830, Apr 131844
 
18881904, Jan 15
 a Belgian-Danish composer and conductor. Although of Danish birth, he spent most of his career wo...
Giuseppe Verdi1813, Oct 9/101834
 
19001901, Jan 27
  a leading Italian composer of opera in the 19th c., noted for operas such as Rigoletto (1...
Wilhelm Kuhe1823, Dec 101844
 
19041912, Oct 8
 a German pianist and piano teacher, composer and administrator born in the city of Prague (modern...
Fanny Crosby1820, Mar 241843
 
19151915, Feb 12
 an American mission worker, poet, lyricist, and composer. A member of the Sixth Avenue Bible Bapt...
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