Gaetano Donizetti
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Domenico Gaetano Maria Donizetti was an Italian composer of the early Romantic era, best known for his over 70 operas. Along with Gioachino Rossini and Vincenzo Bellini, he was a leading composer of t
Portrait by Francesco Coghetti, 1837
Donizetti as a schoolboy in Bergamo
Johann Simone Mayr, c. 1810
Donizetti as a schoolboy
Vincenzo Bellini
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Vincenzo Salvatore Carmelo Francesco Bellini was an Italian opera composer of the early Romantic era famed for his long, graceful melodies and evocative musical settings. A central figure of the bel c
Gaetano Donizetti
…November 1797 – 8 April 1848) was an Italian composer of the early Romantic era, best known for his over 70 operas. Along with Gioachino Rossini and Vincenzo Bellini, he was a leading composer of the bel canto opera style during the first half of the nineteenth century and a probable influence on other composers…
Bellini, portrait by Pietro Lucchini
Bellini's birthplace, the Palazzo Gravina-Cruyllas, Catania, circa 1800
Composer Niccolò Antonio Zingarelli
Adelson e Salvini: autograph of the score