Lombard brought the composer in his small creative life out nearly 70 completed works, the European musical culture of the first half of the 19th Century influenced. Gaetano Donizetti positioned himself with his own style within the Italian romance. Based on his work by Gioacchino Rossini in the further development refers to the following it to Giuseppe Verdi …
Gaetano Donizetti Domenico Maria was born on 29 November 1797 Born in Bergamo (Italy), the son of a poor family.
The age of nine he joined a welfare school for music in which he among others was trained by Simon Mayr at the piano and viola and singing. It was followed by music studies in Bologna, his compositional skills perfected. Donizetti made his debut in Venice in 1818 with his opera “Enrico di Borgogna” that even with the second book of the year it achieved a success, but the composer introduced into the music culture.
Donizetti fulfilled the hopes placed in him by his third opera, “Zoraida di Granata,” which he performed in 1822 with full success in Rome. Order this breakthrough followed operas that Donizetti wrote for various impresarios in Italy in large numbers: By 1830 he had composed 26 operas, including “Anna Bolena,” which established in 1830 its unique and romantic style.
In view of the fact that 1834 Donizetti was a professor of composition at the Conservatory of Naples. In the same city a year later he brought “Lucia di Lammermoor” is performed, his greatest opera, which made him known in the international musical culture. In 1838 Donizetti had matured in Paris, where he celebrated in the following years several operatic successes. In 1842 he was also appointed to the imperial court composer and conductor in Vienna.
In 1845, Donizetti suffered paralysis first in 1846 finished his artistic advanced dementia.
Gaetano Donizetti died on 8 April 1848 in Bergamo.
