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	Bellini - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		His father was Jacopo Bellini and his brother was Gentile Bellini.
		Vincenzo Bellini (1801 - 1835), an Italian opera composer.
		Bellini, an international indie rock band comprised of members from Girls Against Boys, Don Caballero and Uzeda.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Bellini (201 words)

	The Swan of Sicily: Vincenzo Bellini at 200 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Vincenzo Bellini was born in Catania on 3 November 1801.
		Bellini further emphasized the pastoralism of the work by having his chorus of villagers, even though they are Swiss, sing tarantella-like songs in 6/8 time, beginning with the introductory chorus of Act One (“Viva, viva Amina”) and continuing through the entire opera.
		Bellini is buried in the Cathedral of Sant’ Agata in Catania.
	www.arbasicula.org /arba/BelliniEng.htm (4910 words)

	Vincenzo Bellini Info - Encyclopedia WikiWhat.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Vincenzo Salvatore Carmelo Francesco Bellini (November 3, 1801, Catania, Italy - September 23, 1835, Puteaux, Paris, France) was an Italian opera composer.
		Foremost a lyricist, Bellini, for many opera aficionados, was the quintessential composer of Bel canto opera.
		Bellini was a child prodigy and legend has it he could sing an air of Firoavanti at eighteen months, began studying music theory at two, the piano at three, and by the age of five could play well.
	wikiwhat.com /encyclopedia/v/vi/vincenzo_bellini.html (292 words)

	Learning Center \| NYC Opera
		One of the masters of the Bel Canto style of opera, Vincenzo Bellini was born November 3, 1801 in Catania, Italy to a family of musicians.
		In Milan in 1827, Bellini composed his third opera, Il pirata, which is considered to have laid the foundation for his career.
		Throughout his short life, Vincenzo Bellini was a controversial figure, both in the music world and society at large.
	www.nycopera.com /learning/resource/biographies/bellini_vincenzo.aspx?detect=yes (389 words)

	Baltimore Opera - Study Guide (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Many of the oft-repeated narratives and anecdotes about Vincenzo Bellini stem not from his short lifetime, but were manufactured later in the nineteenth century by residents of his native Catania and by his close friend and confidante from student days, Francesco Florino (1800-88).
		Bellini's father served as assistant, but his meager talent was overshadowed locally by the family patriarch, and later, intern ationally by his own first-born son.
		Bellini was extremely candid in his correspondence with Florino about his activities, compositions, thoughts and feelings, and, as the affair eventually led to the woman separating from her husband, it is likely that Florino destroyed the originals to suppress material that would have been unflattering to Bellini's image.
	www.baltimoreopera.com /studyguide/sonnambula_02.asp (1060 words)

	VINCENZO BELLINI - LoveToKnow Article on VINCENZO BELLINI (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		His next work, Il Pirata (1827), was written for the Scala in Milan, to words by Felice Romane, with whom Bellini formed a union of friendship to be severed only by his death.
		In 1833 Bellini had left his country to accompany to England the singer Pasta, who had created the part of his Sonnambula.
		I shall never forget, wrote Wagner, the impression made upon me by an opera of Bellini at a period when I was completely exhausted with the everlastingly abstract complication used in our orchestras, when a simple and noble melody was revealed anew to me.
	95.1911encyclopedia.org /B/BE/BELLINI_VINCENZO.htm (425 words)

	Opera Italiana
		In the same year Bellini decided to move to Milan for obvious reasons of work, but also to forget his unhappy love for the young Neapolitan girl Maddalena Fumaroli, whom he was to have married.
		The clamorous flop of this opera and the conflicts that had emerged while he was working on it led Bellini to break off his partnership with Romani.
		The post-mortem revealed that "It is clear that Monsieur Bellini died of acute intestinal inflammation aggravated by a liver abscess".
	www.operaitaliana.com /autori/biografia.asp?ID=4 (1024 words)

	Find A Grave - Millions of Cemetery Records and Online Memorials
		Bellini was born in Catania, Sicily, the son and grandson of musicians.
		Apart from his ability to weather career storms, Bellini was known for his womanizing and superstitious nature.
		Compared to Gaetano Donizetti, his fellow "bel canto" master, Bellini was not a prolific composer (though 11 operas in ten years was no small acheivement).
	www.findagrave.com /cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=8479 (354 words)

	Bellini, Vincenzo (1801 - 1835) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Vincenzo Bellini was one of the most important composers of Italian opera in the earlier years of the 19th century.
		Bellini's influence was not confined to opera and Chopin owes much to him, particularly in his handling of melody.
		Bellini's first great success was in 1827 when Il Pirata was staged at La Scala, Milan.
	www.naxos.com /composer/bellini.htm (83 words)

	Bellini's Norma
		Materials chosen include biographies of Bellini, recordings of the opera by the greatest contemporary sopranos, reviews of the recordings, articles about current stagings, copies of the score, and discussions of Bel Canto singing, the style in which Bellini was noted.
		Vincenzo Bellini was born in 1801 and died, prematurely, September 23, 1835 at the age of 34.
		Bellini's work is shown to be important in the rebirth of Bel Canto singing and Maria Callas is singled out as an example of a modern Bel Canto artist (11).
	www.valdosta.edu /~gfrost/norma.html (2326 words)

	OperaWorld.com's Bel Canto Zone: Biography of Vincenzo Bellini (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Because Bellini believed he invested more into his craft, thus being only able to produce about one opera a year (unlike other composers of the day who could produce up to three or four), he demanded higher fees for his commissions, topping those received by Rossini only a few years before.
		Bellini had to appeal to the Venetian government, which forced Romani to honor his contract, but the composer was still rushed to complete Beatrice di Tenda, which opened beyond its original date.
		This delighted Bellini to no end, as he was constantly jealous of his rival composers (he once remarked that two men involved in the same metier could never be friends).
	www.operaworld.com /belcanto/bellbio.shtml (1261 words)

	Casa Ricordi (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		In Milan Bellini met Giovanni Ricordi, was welcomed in the salons of the nobility and was immediately invited to compose an opera for the inauguration of the Teatro Carlo Felice in Genoa.
		Bellini's last opera to be written in Italy, Beatrice di Tenda, was a failure in Venice in 1833.
		Bellini died that same year from an infection of the intestine which had afflicted him for some time.
	www.ricordi.com /storia/protagonisti/bellini/bellini.htm (636 words)

	Amazon.com: Bellini - Norma / Maria Callas: Music: Vincenzo Bellini,Maria Callas (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Bellini - Norma / Maria Callas, Ludwig, Corelli, Zaccaria, Teatro alla Scala, Serafin ~ Vincenzo Bellini
		Bellini - Norma / María Callas ~ Vincenzo Bellini
		Bellini - Norma / Sutherland, Tourangeau, Bonynge ~ Vincenzo Bellini
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	Vincenzo Bellini - CONNECT, Powered By Sony
		It is an irony that the three great composers of Italian bel canto operas each had such relatively brief careers -- Rossini due to his early retirement and Donizetti and Bellini due to premature death.
		Bellini was a Sicilian, from Catania, where his father and grandfather had both heen organists at the cathedral.
		He was taught by his grandfather and then entered the Naples conservatory at the age of 18, completing...
	musicstore.connect.com /artist/104/213/7/1042137.html (71 words)

	- Classical Music Dictionary - Free MP3 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Although Bellini is remembered chiefly for his highly popular operas, he also composed various instrumental and sacred vocal works and his Oboe Concerto is relatively popular.
		Bellini achieved recognition as a significant operatic composer in 1827 when "Il Pirata" was staged at La Scala in Milan.
		Other operas by Bellini include "I Capuletti ed I Montecchi" based on Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet; the highly popular and complicated "La Sonnambula" produced in Milan in 1831; his most dramatic opera "Norma" staged at La Scala at the end of the same year, and the final work, "I Puritani" staged in Paris in 1835.
	www.karadar.it /Dictionary/bellini.html (153 words)

	Bellini, Vincenzo (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Bellini's vocals and Rossini's vivacity joined together gave the opera a new age of lyricism.
		Bellini consolidated his new style in the other eight operas.
		Bellini's last materpiece, I Puritani, was written for the Theater degli Italiani in Paris.
	www.cartage.org.lb /en/themes/Biographies/MainBiographies/B/Bellini2/01.html (231 words)

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		It is, for me, a sad reminder of the year in which Vincenzo Bellini died.
		Wagner, too, was attracted by Bellini's operas and noted the close alliance between music and libretto.
		For a period, Bellini was out of fashion, but a new generation of great singers has restored him to favour, revealing the dramatic force and beauty of his works.
	www.geocities.com /Vienna/1835 (319 words)

	Welcome to WBJC.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Vincenzo Bellini, whose bicentennial is November 3rd, was certainly a major opera composer in the first part of the 19th century.
		Bellini was the first of seven children born into a musical Sicilian family.
		Although he had written some music as early as the age of six, the young Vincenzo didn't try his hand at opera until he was 23.
	www.wbjc.com /message.html (381 words)

	Bellini, Vincenzo on Encyclopedia.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		BELLINI, VINCENZO [Bellini, Vincenzo], 1801-35, Italian opera composer.
		It was characterized by careful composition, great attention to the relationship between words and music, and an originality of harmony that gave rise to his music's sensual, ecstatic quality.
		Vincenzo Bellini: A Guide to Research and Richard Wagner: A Guide to Research.
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/b/bellniv1.asp (358 words)

	Vincenzo Bellini - Best of Sicily Magazine
		Vincenzo Bellini showed himself to be one of the great craftsmen of this movement.
		Bellini studied at the Music Conservatory with some of the greatest contemporary teachers in Europe of this refined art form called "lyric opera," whose showcase was the San Carlo, one of Italy's most important opera houses.
		What ensued was a succession of beautiful operas displaying with each passing year a growing sophistication, and for Bellini an artistic liberation from the dominance of that other contemporary giant, Gioacchino Rossini --a friend of Bellini.
	www.bestofsicily.com /mag/art20.htm (616 words)

	Virginia Opera: Current Operas: Norma
		Bellini was born on the island of Sicily, the eldest of seven children in a musical family.
		Because Bellini believed he invested more into his craft, thus being only able to produce about one opera a year (unlike others who produced up to three or four), he demanded higher fees for his commissions, topping those received by Rossini only a few years before.
		Bellini was able to make important Parisian contacts with the leading artistic figures of the Romantic period, including FrÃ©dÃ©ric Chopin, Franz Liszt, Alfred de Mussy, Heinrich Heine, Victor Hugo, George Sand, Alexandre Dumas pÃ¨re and Horace Vernet, among others.
	www.vaopera.org /html/currentoperas/opera4.cfm (2108 words)

	Vincenzo Bellini -- Britannica Student Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Italian operatic composer Vincenzo Bellini had a gift for creating vocal melody at once pure in style and sensuous in expression.
		Bellini's influence is reflected not only in the music of later operatic composers, including the early works of Richard Wagner, but also in the instrumental music of Frédéric Chopin and Franz Liszt.
		Born in Madrid, Spain, of Italian parents, Patti was a famous bel canto singer known for her wonderfully pure voice that kept its freshness even in her later years, an amazing evenness throughout a wide vocal range, and technical skill.
	www.britannica.com /ebi/article-9317298 (610 words)

	Vincenzo Bellini and France: History, Performance and Reception of His Work, Paris, November 2001 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Vincenzo Bellini and France: History, Performance and Reception of His Work, Paris, November 2001
		We extend an invitation to participate to all of our musicologist colleagues interested by matters pertaining to the composer's Parisian sojourn, ultimate musical creations and death, but also to relationships with the musical milieu, influences of French opera or the “silence” of Italian musicians in France.
		The studies may, for instance, concern the relationship of Bellini's work with France (literary sources for the librettos, the two versions of I Puritani, the non-theatrical production), his reception on operatic stages and in the press, musical settings of Bellini themes and literary texts.
	www.sun.rhbnc.ac.uk /Music/Conferences/01-b-bel.html (377 words)

	CLASSICAL MUSIC ARCHIVES: Biography of Vincenzo Bellini
		Recent revivals have shown this to be one of Bellini's masterpieces.
		Wagner, too, was attracted by Bellini's operas and noted the close alliance between mus.
		For a period, Bellini was out of fashion, being regarded as merely a composer of display pieces, but a new generation of great singers has restored them to favour, revealing their dramatic force and melodic beauty.
	www.classicalarchives.com /bios/codm/bellini.html (411 words)

	Norma - Vincenzo Bellini (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Norma, high priestess of the Druids suffering under Roman occupation, has betrayed her people doubly: she has secretly borne two children by Pollione, the Roman proconsul, at once sleeping with the enemy and breaking her vows of chastity.
		Pollione is captured, Norma confesses to her people, and a contrite Pollione now sees her once again as "sublime woman." They go to their death together, reunited in a pyre of fire.
		To this scenario laden with love, yearning, betrayal, anger and remorse, Bellini brought music of grand lyricism, fully expressive of the strong emotion.
	www.culturevulture.net /Opera2/Norma.htm (494 words)

	Vincenzo Bellini
		His first opera, Adelson e Savina, was performed in 1825 at a small theater in Naples; his second dramatic work, Bianca e Fernando, was produced next year at the San Carlo theater of the same city, and made his name known in Italy.
		In almost every year of the short remainder of his life he produced a new operatic work, which was received with rapture by the audiences of France, Italy, Germany and Engiand.
		"I shall never forget", wrote Richard Wagner, "the impression made upon me by an opera of Bellini at a period when I was completely exhausted with the everlastingly abstract complication used in our orchestras, when a simple and noble melody was revealed anew to me."
	www.nndb.com /people/399/000093120 (395 words)

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