Gaspare Luigi Pacifico Spontini (14 November 1774 – 24 January 1851) was an Italian opera composer and conductor from the classical era. During the first two decades of the 19th century, Spontini was an important figure in French opera, and composed over twenty works.
Gaspare Luigi Pacifico Spontini (14 November 1774 – 24 January 1851) was an Italian opera composer and conductor from the classical era. During the first...
stage sets, ballets and large choirs. Her first representative was GaspareSpontini, her most important Giacomo Meyerbeer. Music development has now also...
GaspareSpontini (1774–1851) wrote operas from the last decade of the 18th century to the third decade of the 19th century. Before leaving Italy, where...
instrument by François-Joseph Gossec in 1790, and it was also taken up by GaspareSpontini and Jean-François Le Sueur. Hector Berlioz deployed the instrument...
Rafael Sabatini (Iesi); composer GaspareSpontini (Maiolati, which has since been named after him as Maiolati Spontini); composer Giovanni Battista Pergolesi...
Olimpie (also spelled Olympie) is an opera in three acts by GaspareSpontini. The French libretto, by Armand-Michel Dieulafoy and Charles Brifaut, is based...
opera by GaspareSpontini on a libretto by Giuseppe Foppa, which premiered at the Teatro San Moisè, Venice in 1802. The opera was Spontini's last work...
La fuga in maschera is a comic opera by GaspareSpontini premiered in the Carnival season in Naples in 1800 at the Teatro Nuovo. The work was thought lost...
birthplace of musician GaspareSpontini, whose name has been conjoined with the commune's ancient name, Maiolati. Maiolati Spontini borders the following...
1830 to 1841. His outspoken criticism of the influence in Berlin of GaspareSpontini landed him in jail in 1837. Rellstab had considerable influence as...
symphonic concerts. In the same year, Giacomo Meyerbeer succeeded GaspareSpontini as General Music Director. Felix Mendelssohn also conducted symphonic...
suited for the powerful dramas that were being written. Others, such as GaspareSpontini, wrote works to glorify Napoleon. These operas were composed on a suitably...
ophicleide first appeared in the banda (stage band) of the opera Olimpie by GaspareSpontini in 1819. Other famous works which employ it include Felix Mendelssohn's...
operas written in the French style by foreign composers, particularly GaspareSpontini, and above all five operas by Gluck. He began to visit the Paris Conservatoire...
conducted by Tullio Serafin, studio recording for EMI, September 1954 Spontini, La vestale, conducted by Antonino Votto, live performance, La Scala, Milan...
puntigli delle donne is a 1796 opera, a farsetta for six voices, by GaspareSpontini first performed at Teatro della Pallacorda of the Accademia degli Intrepidi...
Hohenstaufen is a German-language opera in three acts by the Italian composer GaspareSpontini. The German libretto is by Ernst Benjamin Salomo Raupach. It was first...
Teseo riconosciuto (1798) is the first opera seria by GaspareSpontini to a libretto by Cosimo Giotti. It was premiered at the Teatro della Pallacorda...
(Hernán Cortés, or The Conquest of Mexico) is an opera in three acts by GaspareSpontini with a French libretto by Étienne de Jouy and Joseph-Alphonse Esménard...
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