Placido Mandanici

Placido Mandanici (3 July 1799, Barcellona Pozzo di Gotto – 6 June 1852,

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) 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 ...

. He is best known 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 ...

s. He graduated from the Music Lyceum in Palermo (1820), and then studied at Naples with

Pietro Raimondi Pietro Raimondi (December 20, 1786, Rome – October 30, 1853) was an Italian composer, transitional between the Classical and Romantic eras. While he was famous at the time as a composer of operas and sacred music, he was also as an innovat ...

. In 1829 his first opera, ''L'isola disabitata'', premiered in Naples. From 1834 to 1848 he worked in Milan as an opera and ballet composer and taught at the Milan Conservatory. He was a friend of

Gaetano Donizetti Domenico Gaetano Maria Donizetti (29 November 1797 – 8 April 1848) was an Italian composer, best known for his almost 70 operas. Along with Gioachino Rossini and Vincenzo Bellini, he was a leading composer of the '' bel canto'' opera style dur ...

and was a part of the artistic circle centered on Countess

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. To Samoylova he dedicated his opera ''Il buontempone di Porta Ticinese'' (1841). Mandanici spent the last years of his life in Genoa. 1799 births 1852 deaths People from Barcellona Pozzo di Gotto Italian classical composers Italian opera composers Italian male opera composers 19th-century classical composers Academic staff of Milan Conservatory 19th-century Italian composers 19th-century Italian male musicians Musicians from Sicily Musicians from the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies {{italy-composer-stub