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Carlo Eduardo Acton (25 August 1829 – 2 February 1909) was an Italian

composer A composer is a person who writes music. The term is especially used to indicate composers of Western classical music, or those who are composers by occupation. Many composers are, or were, also skilled performers of music. Etymology and Defi ...

and concert

pianist A pianist ( , ) is an individual musician who plays the piano. Since most forms of Western music can make use of the piano, pianists have a wide repertoire and a wide variety of styles to choose from, among them traditional classical music, ja ...

. He is particularly remembered for his

opera Opera is a form of theatre in which music is a fundamental component and dramatic roles are taken by singers. Such a "work" (the literal translation of the Italian word "opera") is typically a collaboration between a composer and a librett ...

''Una cena in convitto'' and for his sacred music compositions of which his ''Tantum ergo'' is the most well-known.Opera at Stanford University
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/ref> His father, Francis Charles Acton (1796-1865), was the youngest son of General Joseph Acton, younger brother of

Sir John Acton, 6th Baronet Sir John Francis Edward Acton, 6th Baronet (3 June 1736 12 August 1811) was a French-born English gentleman who served as Commander of the naval forces of the Grand Duchy of Tuscany and later as Prime Minister of the Kingdom of Naples under F ...

. His mother Esther was a daughter of the Irish painter

Robert Fagan Robert Fagan ( – 26 August 1816) was a painter, diplomat and archaeologist. Born in London, he spent most of his career in Rome and Sicily. Career The son of Cork immigrants, Fagan was born ca. 1761 in London. He arrived in Rome in ...

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1829 births 1909 deaths Italian classical composers Italian opera composers Italian male opera composers 19th-century Italian pianists 19th-century Italian composers 19th-century Italian male musicians {{italy-composer-stub