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Gaspare Spontini
Gaspare Luigi Pacifico Spontini (14 November 1774 – 24 January 1851) was an Italianoperacomposer and conductor, extremely celebrated in his time, though largely forgotten after his death.
Biography
Born in Maiolati in the province of Ancona, now Maiolati Spontini, he spent most of his career in Paris and Berlin, but returned to his place of birth at the end of his life. During the first two decades of the 19th century, Spontini was an important figure in Frenchopera. In his more than twenty operas, Spontini strove to adapt Gluck's classical tragédie lyrique to the contemporary taste for melodrama, for grander spectacle (in Fernand Cortez for example), for enriched orchestral timbre, and for melodic invention allied to idiomatic expressiveness of words. His single great masterpiece and success was La Vestale.[1]
As a youth, Spontini studied at the Conservatorio della Pietà de' Turchini in Naples. In 1803, he went to Paris, where he was appointed court composer in 1805.
In 1807, Spont
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Gaspare Spontini
Italian composer and conductor
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Gaspare Luigi Pacifico Spontini (14 November 1774 – 24 January 1851) was an Italian operacomposer and conductor from the classical era. During the first two decades of the 19th century, Spontini was an important figure in Frenchopera, and composed over twenty works.
Biography
Born in Maiolati, Papal State (now Maiolati Spontini, Province of Ancona), he spent most of his career in Paris and Berlin, but returned to his place of birth at the end of his life. During the first two decades of the 19th century, Spontini was an important figure in French opera. In his more than twenty operas, Spontini strove to adapt Gluck's classical tragédie lyrique to the contemporary taste for melodrama, for grander spectacle (in Fernand Cortez for example), for enriched orchestral timbre, and for melodic invention allied to idiomatic expressiveness of words.
As a youth, Spontini studied at the Conservatorio della Pietà de' Turchini, one o
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Gaspare Spontini Composer
Born in Italy in 1774 to a modest family, Gaspare Spontini was destined for an ecclesiastical career but studied at the Naples Conservatory instead. A restless and poor student, he left the institution before the end of his studies, which had an impact on his first compositions and thus despite his undeniable artistic temperament.
Attracted by the buzzing Parisian atmosphere, he settled in the French capital in 1803, where he was quickly commissioned several opera-comiques: La Petite Maison and Milton (1804), Julie ou Le Pot de fleurs (1805). A protégé of the Empress, he became her official composer in 1805. But as a man of the theatre, his main ambition was to conquer the lyrical tragedy stage.
In his three great masterpieces (La Vestale, 1807, Fernand Cortez ou La Conquête du Mexique, 1809 and Olympie, 1819), he managed to breathe new life into Gluck’s style thanks to additions coming from the revolutionary music and can, as such, be regarded as a pioneer of the romantic grand opera genre.
Despite his fame, he composed only a f
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