Stefano Gobatti (
Bergantino
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, 5 July 1852 –
Bologna
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, 17 December 1913) was an Italian opera composer.
Gobatti was born in 1852 in the
Province of Rovigo
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in a poor and humble peasant family. He passionately studied music and immediately had results, and was taught under
Giuseppe Busi and
Lauro Rossi
Lauro Rossi (born in Macerata, 19 February 1810;Some sources say 1812. died in Cremona, 5 May 1885), was an Italian composer, particularly of operas. There is no known connection with Luigi Rossi (1597–1653).
Life and career
Rossi studied i ...
. At just eighteen, he composed the opera ''
I goti'' which was staged on 30 November 1873 at the
Teatro Comunale di Bologna
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While there had been various theatres presenting opera in Bologna since the early 1 ...
. The work was an unprecedented success. Within a short period he was the "Freeman of the City of Bologna" and appointed ''Member of Honor of the Accademia Filarmonica'' in
Bologna
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and appointed ''Knight of the Crown of Italy'' granted by King
Vittorio Emanuele II
Victor Emmanuel II ( it, Vittorio Emanuele II; full name: ''Vittorio Emanuele Maria Alberto Eugenio Ferdinando Tommaso di House of Savoy, Savoia''; 14 March 1820 – 9 January 1878) was Kingdom of Sardinia, King of Sardinia from 1849 until 17 Marc ...
. Under pressure from music publishers and their purely economic interests, his later works such as ''Luce'' (1875) and ''Cordelia'' (1881), were inevitably marked by conflicting adversity. Gobatti, disappointed and embittered, increasingly sought refuge in a Franciscan convent in the hills of Bologna, and lived there as a monk in extreme poverty. He died on 17 December 1913 and was buried at the
Cimitero Monumentale Della Certosa.
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Italian opera composers
Male opera composers
1852 births
1913 deaths
Composers awarded knighthoods
Italian classical composers
Italian male classical composers
People from the Province of Rovigo
Italian Franciscans
19th-century classical composers
19th-century Italian composers
19th-century Italian male musicians
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