Gaetano Donizetti
Domenico Gaetano Maria Donizetti, also , , }} (29 November 1797 – 8 April 1848) was an Italian composer, best known for his almost 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 such as Giuseppe Verdi. Donizetti was born in Bergamo in Lombardy. At an early age he was taken up by Simon Mayr who enrolled him with a full scholarship in a school which he had set up. There he received detailed musical training. Mayr was instrumental in obtaining a place for Donizetti at the Bologna Academy, where, at the age of 19, he wrote his first one-act opera, the comedy ''Il Pigmalione'', which may never have been performed during his lifetime.An offer in 1822 from Domenico Barbaja, the impresario of the Teatro di San Carlo in Naples, which followed the composer's ninth opera, led to his move to Naples and his residency there until production of ''Caterina Cornaro'' in January 1844. In all, 51 of Donizetti's operas were presented in Naples. Before 1830, success came primarily with his comic operas, the serious ones failing to attract significant audiences. His first notable success came with an ''opera seria'', ''Zoraida di Granata'', which was presented in 1822 in Rome. In 1830, when ''Anna Bolena'' was first performed, Donizetti made a major impact on the Italian and international opera scene shifting the balance of success away from primarily comedic operas, although even after that date, his best-known works included comedies such as ''L'elisir d'amore'' (1832) and ''Don Pasquale'' (1843). Significant historical dramas did succeed; they included ''Lucia di Lammermoor'' (the first to have a libretto written by Salvadore Cammarano) given in Naples in 1835, and one of the most successful Neapolitan operas, ''Roberto Devereux'' in 1837. Up to that point, all of his operas had been set to Italian libretti.
Donizetti found himself increasingly chafing against the censorship limitations in Italy (and especially in Naples). From about 1836, he became interested in working in Paris, where he saw greater freedom to choose subject matter, in addition to receiving larger fees and greater prestige. From 1838, beginning with an offer from the Paris Opéra for two new works, he spent much of the following 10 years in that city, and set several operas to French texts as well as overseeing staging of his Italian works. The first opera was a French version of the then-unperformed ''Poliuto'' which, in April 1840, was revised to become ''Les martyrs''. Two new operas were also given in Paris at that time. Throughout the 1840s Donizetti moved between Naples, Rome, Paris, and Vienna, continuing to compose and stage his own operas as well as those of other composers. From around 1843, severe illness began to limit his activities. By early 1846 he was obliged to be confined to an institution for the mentally ill and, by late 1847, friends had him moved back to Bergamo, where he died in April 1848 in a state of mental derangement due to neurosyphilis. Provided by Wikipedia
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Published 1871[London] : Printed and published for The Royal Italian Opera by J. Miles, [1871?]63 p. -
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Published 1872[London] : Printed and published for The Royal Italian Opera by J. Miles, [1872?]59 p. -
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Published 1858Barcelona, Tomás Gorchs, 1858.69 p. -
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Published 1981New York : Garland, 1981.1 score (2 v.) ; 24 x 32 cm. -
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Published 1843[S.l. : s.n.], 184324 p. -
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Published 1840Valencia : Impr. de J. Ferrer de Orga, [1840?]80 p. -
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Published 1880New York : London : S. French & Son ; S. French, [188-?]22, 22 columns : music. -
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Published 1906Madrid, R. Velasco, 1906.36 p. -
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Published 1843Paris : Lange Lévy, 1843.63 p. ; 20 cm. -
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Published 1855New York : Baker & Godwin, Printers, 1855.32 p. -
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Published 1860Boston : O. Ditson, c1860.27 p. : music. -
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Published 1850New York : Snowden, 1850.75 p. -
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Published 1871London : Swift, [1871?]63 p. -
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Published 1845New York : Herald Book and Job Print. Off., 1845.22 p. : 1 ill. -
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Published 1907Madrid, R. Velasco, 1907.31 p. -
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Published 1982New York : Garland Pub., 1982.1 score (2 v. ([17], 565 p.)) ; 32 cm. -
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Published 1847Paris, Impr. Lange, Lévy, 1847.53 p. -
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