Gaetano Donizetti belongs to the musical record as a figure whose work outlasted the moment that produced it.
The record lists Gaetano Donizetti as Italian opera composer (1797–1848).
Gaetano Donizetti was born at Bergamo in 1797. His recorded nationality is Kingdom of Lombardy–Venetia. He trained at Conservatorio Giovanni Battista Martini.
The concert hall and the public audience were new in this period; music was beginning to be written for buyers rather than employers.
He worked as composer.
His work is classed as opera, catholic mass and cantata.
Among his best-known works are L'elisir d'amore, Lucia di Lammermoor and Don Pasquale. Music outlives its context more reliably than any other art, and usually for reasons its makers did not predict.
Recognition followed: Knight of the Legion of Honour and Order of the Golden Spur.
That the work came out of Kingdom of Lombardy–Venetia shaped it: musical traditions, training institutions and the reach of a recording industry all differ by country.
Gaetano Donizetti died in 1848, aged 51. The recordings and scores remain, which is the only durable form a musical life takes.
Achievements
- Knight of the Legion of Honour
- Order of the Golden Spur
- Notable work: L'elisir d'amore
- Notable work: Lucia di Lammermoor
- Notable work: Don Pasquale
- Notable work: La Fille du régiment
- Genres: opera, Catholic Mass and cantata
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