- Giacomo Puccini
Giacomo Antonio Domenico Michele Secondo Maria Puccini was an Italian composer whose operas, including "La bohème", "Tosca", and "Madama Butterfly", are among the most frequently performed in the standard repertoire. Some of his melodies, such as "O mio babbino caro" from "Gianni Schicchi" and "Nessun dorma" from "Turandot", have become part of modern culture. - Giuseppe Verdi
Giuseppe Fortunino Francesco Verdi was an Italian Romantic composer, mainly of opera. He was one of the most influential composers of Italian opera in the 19th century and went well beyond the work of Bellini, Donizetti, and Rossini. His works are frequently performed in opera houses throughout the world and, transcending the boundaries of the genre, … - Claudio Monteverdi
Claudio Monteverdi (May 15, 1567 (baptized) - November 29, 1643) was an Italian composer, gambist, and singer. His work marks the transition from Renaissance to Baroque music, and during his long life he produced works that can be classified in both categories. Monteverdi has been regarded as a revolutionary who brought about change in musical style. He wrote one of the earliest operas, "Orfeo", … - Antonio Vivaldi
Antonio Lucio Vivaldi, nicknamed "Il Prete Rosso" ("The Red Priest"), was an Italian priest and baroque music composer, as well as a famous violinist; he was born and raised in the Republic of Venice. "The Four Seasons", a series of four violin concertos, are his best known works and highly popular Baroque music pieces. - Domenico Scarlatti
Giuseppe Domenico Scarlatti (October 26, 1685 - July 23, 1757) was an Italian composer who spent much of his life in Spain and Portugal. He was extremely influential in the development of the Classical period in music through his individual style, though he lived mostly during the Baroque era. - Francesco Cavalli
Francesco Cavalli (February 14 1602 - January 14 1676), Italian composer, was born at Crema. His real name was Pietro Francesco Caletti-Bruni, but he is better known by that of Cavalli, the name of his patron, a Venetian nobleman. - Pietro Mascagni
Pietro Mascagni (December 7, 1863 - August 2, 1945) was an Italian composer, most noted for his operas. His 1890 masterpiece, "Cavalleria rusticana", caused one of the greatest sensations in opera history and singlehandedly ushered in the "Verismo" movement in Italian dramatic music. However, though it has been stated that Mascagni, like Leoncavallo, was a "one-opera man" who could never repeat his first success, this is inaccurate. - Amilcare Ponchielli
Amilcare Ponchielli (August 31, 1834 - January 17, 1886) was an Italian composer, largely of operas. Born in Paderno Fasolaro, now Paderno Ponchielli, near Cremona, Ponchielli won a scholarship at the age of nine to study music at the Milan Conservatory, writing his first symphony by the time he was ten years old. - Domenico Cimarosa
Domenico Cimarosa was an Italian opera composer. - Arrigo Boito
Arrigo Boito (February 24, 1842 - June 10, 1918) was an Italian poet, journalist, novelist and composer, best known today for his opera libretti and his own opera, "Mefistofele". - Franco Alfano
Franco Alfano (cassie collMarch 8, 1875 - October 27, 1954) was an Italian composer and pianist. He was born in Posillipo, near Naples, and today he is best known for completing Puccini's unfinished opera "Turandot" in 1926. Until recent times, musical histories usually gave the year of Alfano's birth, incorrectly, as 1876. He attended piano privately under Alessandro Longo (1864-1946), … - Ruggero Leoncavallo
Ruggiero Leoncavallo (April 23, 1857- August 9, 1919) was an Italian opera composer. - Gioachino Rossini
Gioachino Antonio Rossini (February 29, 1792 - November 13, 1868) was an Italian composer who wrote 39 operas as well as sacred music and chamber music. His best known works include "Il barbiere di Siviglia" ("The Barber of Seville") and "Guillaume Tell" ("William Tell"). - Antonio Salieri
Antonio Salieri (August 18, 1750 - May 7, 1825), born in Legnago, Italy, was a composer and conductor. As the Austrian imperial "Kapellmeister" from 1788 to 1824, he was one of the most important and famous musicians of his time. - Alessandro Scarlatti
Alessandro Scarlatti (May 2, 1660 - October 24, 1725) was a Baroque composer especially famous for his operas and chamber cantatas. He is considered the founder of the Neapolitan school of opera. He was the father of two other composers, Domenico Scarlatti and Pietro Filippo Scarlatti. - Luigi Cherubini
Luigi Cherubini (September 14, 1760 - March 15, 1842) was an Italian composer who spent most of his working life in France. Although his music is not well known today, it was greatly admired in his time. Beethoven regarded him as the greatest of his contemporaries. The most significant of Cherubini's works are his operas and sacred music. - Giovanni Paisiello
Giovanni Paisiello (or Paesiello) (May 9, 1740 - June 5, 1816), was an Italian composer of the Classical era. Paisiello was born at Taranto, where he attended the Jesuit college. The beauty of his singing voice attracted so much attention that in 1754 he was sent to the Conservatorio di S. Onofrio at Naples, where he studied under Francesco Durante, and in due course became assistant master. For the theatre of the Conservatorio, which he left in 1763, … - Umberto Giordano
Umberto Giordano (August 28, 1867 - November 12, 1948) was an Italian composer, mainly of opera. He was born in Foggia in Puglia, Italy and studied under Paolo Serrao at the Conservatoire of Naples. His first opera "Marina", was written for the competition staged by the music publishers Casa Sonzogno for the best one-act opera, remembered today because it marked the beginning of Italian "verismo"; the winner was Mascagni's "Cavalleria Rusticana". - Ottorino Respighi
Ottorino Respighi (Bologna, July 9, 1879 - Rome, April 18, 1936) was an Italian composer, musicologist, pianist, violist and violinist. He is best known for his "Roman trilogy" and the three suites of "Ancient Airs and Dances". - Gaspare Spontini
Gaspare Luigi Pacifico Spontini (14 November, 1774 - 24 January, 1851) was an Italian opera composer and conductor. - Antonio Sacchini
Antonio Sacchini (Born Florence, 14 June, 1730 - died Paris, 6 October, 1786) was an Italian opera composer. Sacchini was raised and received his musical education in Naples, where he wrote his first operas, thereafter moving to Venice, then London and eventually Paris. He was one of the leading composers of opera seria. - Giovanni Battista Pergolesi
Giovanni Battista Pergolesi (January 4, 1710 - March 16, 1736) was an Italian composer, violinist and organist - Riccardo Zandonai
Riccardo Zandonai (28 May 1883 - 5 June 1944) was an Italian opera composer - Tomaso Albinoni
Tomaso Giovanni Albinoni (June 8, 1671, Venice, Republic of Venice - January 17, 1751, Venice, Republic of Venice) was a Venetian Baroque composer. While famous in his day as an opera composer, he is mainly remembered today for his instrumental music, some of which is regularly recorded. The "Adagio in G minor" attributed to him (actually a later reconstruction) is one of the most frequently recorded pieces of Baroque music. - Saverio Mercadante
Giuseppe Saverio Raffaele Mercadante (September 16, 1795 - December 17, 1870), was an Italian composer, particularly of operas. - Luigi Rossi
Luigi Rossi was an Italian Baroque composer. Rossi was born in Torremaggiore, a small town near Foggia, in the ancient kingdom of Naples and at an early age he went to Naples. There he studied music with the Franco-Flemish composer Jean de Macque who was organist of the Santa Casa dell’Annunziata and maestro di cappella to the Spanish viceroy. Rossi later entered the service of the Caetanis, dukes of Traetta. - Nicola Porpora
Nicola (Antonio) Porpora (August 17, 1686 - March 3, 1768) was an Italian composer of Baroque operas (see opera seria) and teacher of singing, whose most famous singing student was the castrato Farinelli. - Niccolò Piccinni
Niccolò Piccinni was an Italian composer of symphonies, sacred music, chamber music, and opera (some estimates claim he wrote as many as 300 operas). Although he is somewhat obscure, even to music lovers today, Piccinni was one of the most popular composers of opera — particularly the Neapolitan opera buffa — of his day. Historically, he had the misfortune of falling between the generations of his great predecessors such as Pergolesi and the greats who came after him, … - Francesco Cilea
Francesco Cilea (July 26, 1866 - November 20, 1950) was an Italian opera composer. - Alfredo Catalani
Alfredo Catalani, was an Italian operatic composer, best known for the works "La Wally" (1892, to a libretto by Luigi Illica, containing Catalani's most famous aria, "Ebben? Ne andrò lontana" from Act I) and "Loreley" (1890). Other operas were less successful, hampered by poor libretti. Catalani was born in Lucca. He was opposed to the "verismo" style becoming popular during the 1880s. His works have largely fallen out of the repertoire, … - Ferruccio Busoni
Ferruccio Busoni (April 1, 1866 - July 27, 1924) was an Italian composer, pianist, music teacher and conductor. - Lauro Rossi
Lauro Rossi (born in Macerata, 19 February 1812; died in Cremona, 5 May1885), was an Italian composer, particularly of operas. There is no known connection with Luigi Rossi (1597-1653). Rossi studied in Naples and produced his first opera there. His greatest success was with the comic opera originally entitled "La casa disabitata", which was performed for many years in its revised form under the title "I falsi monetari". - Luciano Berio
Luciano Berio (October 24, 1925 - May 27, 2003) was an Italian composer. He is noted for his experimental work (in particular his 1968 composition "Sinfonia" for voices and orchestra) and also for his pioneering work in electronic music. - Ildebrando Pizzetti
Ildebrando Pizzetti (September 20, 1880-February 13, 1968) was an Italian composer of classical music. Pizzetti was part of the "Generation of 1880" along with Ottorino Respighi and Gian-Francesco Malipiero. They were among the first Italian composers in some time whose primary contributions were "not" in opera. (The instrumental and "a cappella" traditions had never died in Italian music and had produced, for instance, … - Giovanni Battista Bononcini
Giovanni Battista Bononcini (18 July 1670 - 9 July 1747) was an Italian Baroque composer and cellist, one of a family of musicians. His father, Giovanni Maria Bononcini, was a violinist and composer. - Luigi Dallapiccola
Luigi Dallapiccola (February 3, 1904 - February 19, 1975) was an Italian composer known for his lyrical twelve-tone compositions. - Ferdinando Paer
Ferdinando Paer (July 1, 1771 - May 3, 1839) was an Italian musical composer. - Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari
Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari (born Ermanno Wolf) (Venice, January 12, 1876 - Venice January 21, 1948) was an Italian composer. He is best known for his comic operas, "I quattro rusteghi" (1906) and "Il segreto di Susanna" (1909). A number of his works were based on plays by Carlo Goldoni, including "Il campiello". - Antonio Lotti
Antonio Lotti (c.1667 - January 5, 1740) was an Italian composer of classical music. Lotti was born either in 1666 or 1667, in Venice or in Hanover (where his father Matteo was Kapellmeister). After studying with Giovanni Legrenzi, Lotti made his career at St Mark's Basilica in Venice, first as an alto singer, then as assistant to the second organist, then as second organist, then (from 1704) as first organist, and finally (from 1736) as "maestro di cappella", … - Antonio Cesti
Antonio Cesti (bap. August 5, 1623 - October 14, 1669), known today primarily as an Italian composer of the Baroque era, he was also a singer (tenor), and organist. He was "the most celebrated Italian musician of his generation".
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