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Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari: Quick Facts

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Born January 12, 1876 • Venice • Italy
Died January 21, 1948 (aged 72) • Venice • Italy
Notable Works “Sly” • “The Jewels of the Madonna” • “The School for Fathers” • “The Secret of Susanne”
Movement / Style verismo
Cimarosa, Domenico
Domenico Cimarosa
Italian composer
Leoncavallo
Ruggero Leoncavallo
Italian composer
Mascagni, Pietro
Pietro Mascagni
Italian composer
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Umberto Giordano
Italian composer
Gluck
Christoph Willibald Gluck
German composer
portrait of Arthur Sullivan by John Everett Millais
Arthur Sullivan
British composer
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Alfredo Catalani
Italian composer
Sir Henry Rowley Bishop, detail of an oil painting by an unknown artist; in the National Portrait Gallery, London
Sir Henry Rowley Bishop
English composer and conductor
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Otto Nicolai
German composer
Ethel Smyth.
Dame Ethel Smyth
British composer
Giuseppe Verdi
Giuseppe Verdi
Italian composer
Strozzi, Bernardo: portrait of Claudio Monteverdi
Claudio Monteverdi
Italian composer and musician
Gioachino Rossini
Gioachino Rossini
Italian composer
Giacomo Puccini
Giacomo Puccini
Italian composer
Domenico Scarlatti, engraving.
Domenico Scarlatti
Italian composer
Antonio Vivaldi
Antonio Vivaldi
Italian composer
Donizetti, Gaetano
Gaetano Donizetti
Italian opera composer
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Francesca Caccini
Italian composer and singer
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Giovanni Pacini
Italian composer
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Antonio Sacchini
Italian composer