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	Gaspare Spontini
		Gaspare Spontini (14 November, 1774 – 24 January, 1851) was an Italian opera composer and conductor.
		Written with the encouragement of the Empress Josephine, its premiere at the Paris Opera established Spontini as one of the greatest Italian composers of his age.
		Spontini's later, likewise highly regarded "Olympie" (1819) met with indifference, leading him to leave Paris for Prusia, where he became Chief Music Director were he became Kappelmeister[?] and chief conductor at the Berlin Volksopera[?].
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	Gaspare Spontini - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Gaspare Spontini (14 November 1774 – 24 January 1851) was an Italian opera composer and conductor.
		In his more than twenty operas, Spontini strove to adapt Gluck's classical tragédie lyrique to the contemporary taste for melodrama, for grander spectacle (in Fernand Cortez for example), for enriched orchestral timbre, and for melodic invention allied to idiomatic expressiveness of words.
		Spontini's later, likewise highly regarded Olimpie (1819, revised 1820, 1826) met with indifference, leading him to leave Paris for Prussia, where he became Kappelmeister and chief conductor at the Berlin Volksopera.
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		Gaspare Luigi Pacifico Spontini was born in Maiolati, one of the "castles" of Jesi's Contado in the Marca of Ancona, on 14th November 1774; he was the second of Giambattista Spontini and Teresa Guadagnini's children.
		Gaspare Spontini was pressed by his father to begin religious life, as some of his brothers had already done; still a young boy, he was therefore sent to one of his paternal uncles, don Giuseppe Spontini, who was a priest, at the Church of Santa Maria del Piano in Jesi.
		Gaspare Spontini and his wife went to Jesi in 1850 and were warmly welcomed with great honours and celebrations; once he left Jesi with Celeste Erard, the musician reached Maiolati and remained there for the rest of his life.
	www.gasparespontini.com /inglese/vita/Tvita.htm (2471 words)

	Gaspare Spontini - Biography - AOL Music
		Spontini's last opera in Paris, "Olimpie" failed miserably.
		Qualitatively, Spontini attempted to employ movements of the French and Italian idioms by scoring fewer solo numbers and more large ensemble pieces.
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	VH1.com : Gaspare Spontini : Biography
		Spontini's last opera in Paris, "Olimpie" failed miserably.
		The only opera of import by Spontini was "Agnes von Hohenstaufen," 1837.
		Qualitatively, Spontini attempted to employ movements of the French and Italian idioms by scoring fewer solo numbers and more large ensemble pieces.
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	Gaspare Spontini - Definition, explanation
		In his more than twenty operas, Spontini strove to adapt Gluck's classical tragédie lyrique to the contemporary taste for melodrama, for grander spectacle (in Fernand Cortez for example), for enriched orchestral timbre, and for melodic invention allied to idiomatic expressiveness of words.
		Written with the encouragement of Empress Joséphine, its premiere at the Paris Opera established Spontini as one of the greatest Italian composers of his age.
		Spontini's later, likewise highly regarded Olimpie (1819, revised 1820, 1826) met with indifference, leading him to leave Paris for Prussia, where he became Kappelmeister and chief conductor at the Berlin Volksopera.
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		He took French nationality in 1817 and in 1819 composed and staged Olympie, which had very little success.
		This disappointment prompted Spontini to leave France and move to Berlin, on the invitation of the Emperor Friedrich Wilhelm III (1820).
		There he composed Lalla Rookh (1821), Alcidor (1823) and most notably Agnes von Hohenstaufen (1829, revised 1837), the atmosphere of which was already openly Romantic.
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	Classical Net Review - Spontini - Fernando Cortez
		The Italian-born Spontini (1774-1851) was Napoleon's favorite composer, and it is said that he suggested the subject of this opera, even assigning the poet and police spy Esmenard to collaborate with Etienne de Jouy to make certain the libretto emphasized the parallel between Cortez's conquest of Mexico and the Emperor's planned invasion of Spain.
		Premiered at the Paris Opéra in 1809, it was not well received, and was substantially revised before being reintroduced in 1817, after which it stayed in the repertory in France and Germany for a considerable time.
		Spontini's music has its roots in Gluck but is considerably more dramatic and passionate, and this opera in particular is full the kind of spectacular stage effects that Meyerbeer's grand operas were to exploit more fully.
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		Spontini was born on the 14th November 1774 in the small Marche village of Maiolati, near Jesi, later renamed Maiolati Spontini.
		Spontini's new version of Olympie was performed on the 14th May 1821 and brought him overnight success but this was to be short-lived.
		It is to his credit that when Weber died in 1826, Spontini conducted a benefit performance of Der Freischütz for Weber's widow and children.
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		As a youth, Spontini studied at the Conservatorio della Pietà de'Turchini in Naples.
		Written with the encouragement of the Empress Josephine, its premiere at the Paris Opera established Spontini as one of the greatest Italian composers of his age.
		Spontini's later, likewise highly regarded "Olympie" (1819) met with indifference, leading him to leave Paris for Prusia, where he became Chief Music Director were he became Kappelmeister and chief conductor at the Berlin Volksopera.
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		Spontini, after studying at the Naples Conservatoire and composing a number of comic operas (for Naples, Venice and Florence), moved to Paris in 1803.
		His next opera, Fernand Cortez (1809) was 'hijacked' by Napoleon, who saw it as an allegory of his own conquests and thus a useful piece of propaganda; despite its spectacular tableaux, it was not a success.
		Spontini went to Berlin after his tragédie lyrique, Olympie (1819), also proved a failure.
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	- Spontini - Agnese di Hohenstaufen / CaballÃ© Â· Stella Â· Bruscantini Â· Muti @ Soundbug (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Spontini was virtually the creator of massed choral and vocal scenes with shifting rhythms and harmonies within a continuous flow, and so was really Wagner's predecessor.
		Spontini's considerable talent (and reasons for criticism!) are all on display--the vocal lines seem never to end...arias become duets, which become quartets, only to become choruses and then arias again...there is a steady stream of gorgeous music (that certainly caught Wagner's attention).
		Spontini's elaborate & rich orchestration, as well as his imaginative harmonization in ensembles with chorus are quite evident since the beginning of the opÃ©ra (CD1, Track 1).
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	Gaspare Spontini - Encyclopedia.com
		In 1819 he was a leading musician at the court of Frederick William III of Prussia.
		The pageantry and rich orchestration of his operas were greatly admired.
		In 1810, Spontini staged the first Paris performance of Don Giovanni in its original form.
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		The Centro Studi Gaspare Spontini is an association between the Municipality of Maiolati Spontini and the Province of Ancona set up by the Municipality itself.
		As well as being active in the research, study and preservation of all of Spontini's musical inspiration sources, documents and material of various kind, the Centro Studi also supports projects aimed at promoting the knowledge of music and opera in general and Spontini's works in particular among wider sections of the population.
		The Centro Studi also promoted a Cd-Rom on Gaspare Spontini's figure, works and places under the title Gaspare Spontini: L'artista, la musica, il territorio (Gaspare Spontini: The artist, the music, the territory) which was officially presented at the Teatro Spontini in Maiolati on 15th November 1998.
	www.gasparespontini.com /inglese/centro/Tcentro.htm (636 words)

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	- Classical Music Dictionary - Free MP3 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Spontini was an Italian opera composer and conductor, and he was the central figure in French serious opera in the first two decades of the 19th century.
		Spontini's non-operatis music is of little interest: it consists mostly of a large body of songs in an ephemeral style.
		He wrote more than 20 operas: the most important, "La Vestale", represents the Gluckian "tragèdie lyrique" adapted to the taste of Empire audiences with stronger melodrama.
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		MAGAZINES The Magazine Antiques 9/1/2002 DeLorme, Eleanor P. The legendary actor Francois Joseph Talma (1763-1826) became an intimate of the household, and the composer Gaspare Luigi Pacifico Spontini (1774-1851) owed the staging of his masterpiece La Vestale (1807) to Josephine's faithful patronage.
		MAGAZINES Notes 9/1/1996 Tusa, Michael C. young composer steeped in the Gallic traditions of the Conservatoire and the operas of Christoph Willibald Gluck and Gaspare Spontini toward an alternative approach to composition and musical expression.
		Gaspare Spontini (Maiolati Spontini, 14 de noviembre de 1774 – 24 de enero de 1851) fue un compositor de ópera y director italiano.
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		by: Vincenzo Bellini, Gustave Charpentier, Leo Delibes, Gaetano Donizetti, Giacomo Meyerbeer, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Heinrich Proch, Giacomo Puccini, Gioachino Rossini, Gaspare Spontini
		by: Arrigo Boito, Giacomo Puccini, Gioachino Rossini, Gaspare Spontini, Ambroise Thomas, Giuseppe Verdi, Nicola Rescigno, Maria Callas
		by: Christoph Willibald Gluck, Gaspare Spontini, Gaetano Donizetti, Giuseppe Verdi, Riccardo Zandonai, Giacomo Puccini, Jules Massenet, Umberto Giordano, Alfredo Catalani, Francesco Cilea
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		Gaspare Spontini (Composer), Giuseppe Verdi (Composer), Gioachino Rossini (Composer), Arrigo Boito (Composer), Giacomo Puccini (Composer), Ambroise Thomas (Composer), Nicola Rescigno (Conductor), Maria Callas (Performer)
		She sings first a prayer from Spontini's La Vestale, all great formality, regal tone, and utterance, and she caps it with a blazing high C--a bit uneven, but thrilling.
		We next meet her as the evil Lady Macbeth, the tone darker and nastier, with plunges into chest register that continue to surprise.
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		Spontinis La Vestale und der Beginn der Operngeschichte des 19.
		Jahrhunderts: German version of "'La Vestale' de Gaspare Spontini ou Les débuts de l'histoire de l'opéra au XIXe siècle", in P. Prévost (ed.), Le Théâtre Lyrique en France au XIXe siècle, Metz, 1995, pp.
		Gaspare Luigi Pacifico Spontini (1774-1851): Letters and Documents (project of the Institute of Musicology, Johannes Gutenberg University).
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	Amazon.ca: Music: Gaspare Spontini: Agnes di Hohenstaufen [Import] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Gaspare Spontini (Composer), Vittorio Gui (Conductor), Florence Community Theater Orchestra (Orchestra), Anselmo Colzani (Vocals), Dorothy Dow (Vocals), Enzo Mascherini (Vocals), Francesco Albanese (Vocals), Franco Corelli (Vocals), Giangiacomo Guelfi (Vocals), Giorgio Algorta (Vocals)
		It memorializes a truly "great" festival presentation of what is arguably Gasparo Spontini's greatest opera.
		In any case, listening to this epochal performance, one soon puts aside the sonic imperfections---and simply absorbs the beauty and wonder of this phenomenal opera.
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		Heinrich and Brull, Ignaz Saro, Gaspare Spontini, Pyotr Il'yich Tchaikovsky
		by: Vincenzo Bellini, Mauro Giuliani, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Gioachino Rossini, Gaspare Spontini, Leif Christensen, Maria Kämmerling
		Heinrich and Brull, Ignaz Saro, Gaspare Spontini, Pyotr Il'yich Tchaikovsky, Adam Fischer
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		by: Vincenzo Bellini, Gaetano Donizetti, Gioachino Rossini, Gaspare Spontini, Ambroise Thomas, Giuseppe Verdi, Richard Wagner, Alfredo Simonetto, Antonino Votto, Athens Festival Orchestra
		by: Gaspare Spontini, Antonino Votto, Maria Callas, Franco Corelli, Nicola Rossi-Lemeni, Enzo Sordello, Ebe Stignani, Nicola Zaccaria, Vittorio Tatozzi
		by: Vincenzo Bellini, Luigi Cherubini, Gaspare Spontini, Tullio Serafin, L'Orchestra del Teatro alla Scala, Maria Callas
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		Spontini lebte die meiste Zeit seiner Karriere in Paris und Berlin
		Jahrhunderts war Spontini eine wichtige Figur in der franzÃ¶sischen Opera seria
		Dieser Artikel basiert auf dem Artikel Gaspare Spontini aus der freien Enzyklopädie wikipedia und steht unter der GNU Lizenz für freie Dokumentation.
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	Classical Net Review - Mescheriakova - Soprano Arias
		Mescheriakova floats impressive high notes here, and her sound is clear yet womanly (as opposed to girlish).
		She seems to be at her best when the music's emotional content is conciliatory, because she makes a similarly positive impression with "O nume tutelar" from Spontini's La Vestale – a specialty of Maria Callas, by the way.
		The weaknesses of this recital are most evident in the three selections that are more than ten minutes long: Tatiana's Letter Scene from Eugene Onegin, "Tu che le vanità" from Don Carlo, and "Casta diva" from Norma.
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		Heinrich and Brull, Ignaz Saro, Gaspare Spontini, Pyotr Il'yich Tchaikovsky
		by: Vincenzo Bellini, Gustave Charpentier, Leo Delibes, Gaetano Donizetti, Giacomo Meyerbeer, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Heinrich Proch, Giacomo Puccini, Gioachino Rossini, Gaspare Spontini
		by: Vincenzo Bellini, Gaetano Donizetti, Gaspare Spontini, Giuseppe Verdi, Antonino Votto, Georges Sebastian, Gianandrea Gavazzeni, Nicola Rescigno, Tullio Serafin, Giulietta Simionato
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