Gaetano Donizetti

Anno di nascita

1797

Anno di morte

1848

Nazionalità

Italian

Epoca

Romantic

Opere

Arie

Periodo di composizione

1827 – 1842

Luogo di nascita

Bergamo

Luogo di morte

Bergamo

Lingua delle opere

Italian · 66
French · 7

Sintesi da Wikipedia

Domenico Gaetano Maria Donizetti was an Italian composer, 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 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.

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Vita di Gaetano Donizetti

Nazionalità e periodo

Gaetano Donizetti è un compositore Italian del periodo Romantic, vissuto dal 1797 al 1848, nato a Bergamo.

Maestri e formazione

Gaetano Donizetti studiò con i maestri Stanislao Mattei, Johann Simon Mayr — formazione che ne plasmò il linguaggio compositivo.

Allievi e discepoli

Tra gli allievi di Gaetano Donizetti: Michele Puccini.

Vita e carriera

The youngest of three sons, Donizetti was born in 1797 in the Borgo Canale quarter of Bergamo, located just outside the city walls. His family was very poor and had no tradition of music, his father Andrea being the caretaker of the town pawnshop. Simone Mayr, a German composer of internationally successful operas, had become maestro di cappella at Bergamo's principal church in 1802. He founded the Lezioni Caritatevoli school in Bergamo (now the Conservatorio Gaetano Donizetti) in 1805 for the purpose of providing musical training, including classes in literature, beyond what choirboys ordinarily received up until the time that their voices broke. In 1807, Andrea Donizetti attempted to enroll both his sons, but the elder, Giuseppe (then 18), was considered too old. Gaetano (then 9) was accepted. While not especially successful as a choirboy during the first three trial months of 1807 (there being some concern about a difetto di gola, a throat defect), Mayr was soon reporting that Gaetano "surpasses all the others in musical progress" and he was able to persuade the authorities that the young boy's talents were worthy of keeping him in the school. He remained there for nine years, until 1815. However, as Donizetti scholar William Ashbrook notes, in 1809 he was threatened with having to leave because his voice was changing. In 1810 he applied for and was accepted by the local art school, the Academia Carrara, but it is not known whether he attended classes. Then, in 1811, Mayr …

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Contributo all’opera

Gaetano Donizetti ha lasciato 76 opere registrate in Wikidata, con 1 arie principali descritte in pagine dedicate.

Cronologia delle opere di Gaetano Donizetti

8 opere rappresentate in 3 decenni di attività compositiva, raggruppate qui per decade di prima rappresentazione:

1820s · 2 opere

1830s · 3 opere

1840s · 3 opere

Compositori contemporanei di Gaetano Donizetti

Altri compositori del database nati nella stessa generazione di Gaetano Donizetti (1797) — utile per collocare l’opera in un contesto generazionale:

Vincenzo Bellini
1801–1835 · Italian · Romantic
Gioachino Rossini
1792–1868 · Italian · Romantic
Hector Berlioz
1803–1869 · France · Romantic

Arie principali di Gaetano Donizetti

Ah! quando in regio ta lamo — Ugo, conte di Parigi

Fonte dei dati

Biografia ed elenco delle opere provenienti da Wikidata (CC0, pubblico dominio).

Wikidata Q101698 open_in_new