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- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- Italy
- Active from
- 1819-09-26
- Active to
- 1900-03
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Italian late romantic composer Callisto Guatelli Pasha was born in 1820. Guatelli, first came to Istanbul in 1846; he initially worked as choirmaster and stage director of the Naum Theatre. In 1856 he was appointed Director of the Musique Impériale Ottomane, a position in which he succeeded one Guiseppe Donizetti, elder brother of Gaetano. He was in the Ottoman palace from 1855 on. In 1856 he was finally appointed conductor of the Musıka-yi Hümayun by Abdülhamid II, where he served until his d