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Gaspare Spontini
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Italian composer and conductor
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Gaspare Spontini was an Italian composer, conductor, music director, and chapelmaster who worked in the field of music and opera. Born Luigi in Maiolati Spontini in 1774, he was educated at a conservatory and studied under Nicola Sala. He played the violin and spoke Italian. Spontini held citizenship in the Papal States, France, and the Kingdom of Prussia.
He was a member of the Académie des beaux-arts and received the awards Knight of the Legion of Honour and Pour le Mérite. His works are described in sources such as the Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary and the Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition. Spontini died in Maiolati Spontini in 1851.
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Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- Italy
- Active from
- 1774
- Active to
- 1851
Discography
- La Vestale1989
- La vestale1991
- La Vestale1992
- La Vestale1995
- Teseo riconosciuto1996
- La vestale1997
- La vestale2001
- La vestale2002
- La Vestale2005
- Agnese di Hohenstaufen2006
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 3,108
- Total plays
- 22,174
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Gaspare Luigi Pacifico Spontini (14 November 1774 – 24 January 1851) was an Italian opera composer and conductor. 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 French opera. In his more than twenty operas, Spontini strove to adapt Gluck's classical tragédie lyrique to the contemporar
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Kingdom of Prussia
- Place of birth
- Maiolati Spontini
- Place of death
- Maiolati Spontini
- Occupation
- music director
- Educated at
- conservatory
- Languages spoken
- Italian
- Award
- Pour le Mérite
- Student of
- Nicola Sala
- Field of work
- conducting
- Genre
- opera
- Instrument
- violin
- Image
- Aubry-Lecomte - Spontini (cropped).jpg
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- Commons category
- Gaspare Spontini
- date of birth
- 1774-11-14
- date of death
- 1851-01-24
- name in native language
- Gaspare Spontini
- member of
- Académie des beaux-arts
- P12749
- Ali Bongo Ondimba
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Works in European collections
20 objects attributed to Gaspare Spontini, held across European museums, libraries & archives · via Europeana
Fernand Cortez. Ouverture [Música notada] :]à huit mains pour deux pianos
La vestale: O nume tutelar (Oh god protect her); (act 2)/(G. Spontini)
La vestale: Tu che invoco (Thou whom I implore); (act 2)/(G. Spontini)
Ouverture de l'Op. La Vestale arrang. p. le P.F. par P.J. Riotte
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