Gaspare Luigi Pacifico Spontini (14 November 1774 – 24 January 1851) was an Italian opera composer and conductor from the classical era. During the first...

La vestale (The Vestal Virgin) is an opera composed by Gaspare Spontini to a French libretto by Étienne de Jouy. It takes the form of a tragédie lyrique...

Gasparo Gozzi Gaspare DiGregorio Gaspare "Gap" Mangione Gaspare Messina Gaspare Pacchierotti Gasparo da Salò Gaspare Spontini Gasparo Tagliacozzi Oronzo Vito...

instrument by François-Joseph Gossec in 1790, and it was also taken up by Gaspare Spontini and Jean-François Le Sueur. Hector Berlioz deployed the instrument...

stage sets, ballets and large choirs. Her first representative was Gaspare Spontini, her most important Giacomo Meyerbeer. Music development has now also...

Rafael Sabatini (Iesi); composer Gaspare Spontini (Maiolati, which has since been named after him as Maiolati Spontini); composer Giovanni Battista Pergolesi...

transitional figure, as were Johann Nepomuk Hummel, Luigi Cherubini, Gaspare Spontini, Gioachino Rossini, Carl Maria von Weber, Jan Ladislav Dussek and Niccolò...

Gaspare Spontini (1774–1851) wrote operas from the last decade of the 18th century to the third decade of the 19th century. Before leaving Italy, where...

conducted by Tullio Serafin, studio recording for EMI, September 1954 Spontini, La vestale, conducted by Antonino Votto, live performance, La Scala, Milan...

opera by Gaspare Spontini on a libretto by Giuseppe Foppa, which premiered at the Teatro San Moisè, Venice in 1802. The opera was Spontini's last work...

Julie, ou Le pot de fleurs is a 1805 comic opera in one act by Gaspare Spontini to a libretto by the metallurgist Antoine-Gabriel Jars (1774–1857). Julie...

1830 to 1841. His outspoken criticism of the influence in Berlin of Gaspare Spontini landed him in jail in 1837. Rellstab was, according to Max Graf, "the...

Anton Diabelli S.149: Gioachino Rossini S.150: Gioachino Rossini, Gaspare Spontini S.155/3: Franz Schubert S.156/10: Ferdinand Huber S.156/11: Ernest...

La fuga in maschera is a comic opera by Gaspare Spontini premiered in the Carnival season in Naples in 1800 at the Teatro Nuovo. The work was thought lost...

birthplace of musician Gaspare Spontini, whose name has been conjoined with the commune's ancient name, Maiolati. Maiolati Spontini borders the following...

Rosenfest von Kaschmir is an 1822 German-language opera in two acts by Gaspare Spontini, to a libretto by Carl Alexander Herklots after Thomas Moore's Lalla...

ophicleide first appeared in the banda (stage band) of the opera Olimpie by Gaspare Spontini in 1819. Other famous works which employ it include Felix Mendelssohn's...

American studies center, material on Cortés Fernand Cortez opera by Gaspare Spontini, Jean-Paul Penin "Cortes, Hernando" Archived 2008-12-10 at the Wayback...

operas written in the French style by foreign composers, particularly Gaspare Spontini, and above all five operas by Gluck. He began to visit the Paris Conservatoire...

symphonic concerts. In the same year, Giacomo Meyerbeer succeeded Gaspare Spontini as General Music Director. Felix Mendelssohn also conducted symphonic...

(Hernán Cortés, or The Conquest of Mexico) is an opera in three acts by Gaspare Spontini with a French libretto by Étienne de Jouy and Joseph-Alphonse Esménard...

Teseo riconosciuto (1798) is the first opera seria by Gaspare Spontini to a libretto by Cosimo Giotti. It was premiered at the Teatro della Pallacorda...

suited for the powerful dramas that were being written. Others, such as Gaspare Spontini, wrote works to glorify Napoleon. These operas were composed on a suitably...

puntigli delle donne is a 1796 opera, a farsetta for six voices, by Gaspare Spontini first performed at Teatro della Pallacorda of the Accademia degli Intrepidi...

and Composer Opera House Principal cast / Conductor 1954 La vestale, Gaspare Spontini La Scala Maria Callas, Franco Corelli, Ebe Stignani, Nicola Zaccaria...

Weber 6 Pièces, Op. 10a Serenade, J.65 Andante e rondo ongarese, J.79 Gaspare Spontini – Fernand Cortez January 20 – Sebastián Iradier, composer (died 1865)...

Reichardt (Hofkapellmeister, 1775–1794) Bernhard Anselm Weber (1816–1820) Gaspare Spontini (1820–1841) Giacomo Meyerbeer (1842–1846) Otto Nicolai (1848–1849)...

(1773–1812) Bartolomeo Bortolazzi (1773–1820) Pierre Rode (1774–1830) Gaspare Spontini (1774–1851) Václav Tomášek (1774–1850) Christoph Ernst Friedrich Weyse...

Olimpie (also spelled Olympie) is an opera in three acts by Gaspare Spontini. The French libretto, by Armand-Michel Dieulafoy and Charles Brifaut, is based...

– René de Chazet, librettist and writer (died 1844) November 14 – Gaspare Spontini, composer November 18 – William Horsley, composer December 20 –...