Gaspare Spontini
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Italian composer and conductor
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Gaspare Luigi Pacifico Spontini was an Italian opera composer and conductor from the classical era. Biography Born in Maiolati, Papal State , he spent most of his career in Paris and Berlin, but returned to his place of birth at the end of his life. During the first two decades of the 19th century, Spontini was an important figure in French opera. In his more than twenty operas, Spontini strove to adapt Gluck's classical tragédie lyrique to the contemporary taste for melodrama, for grander spectacle , for enriched orchestral timbre, and for melodic invention allied to idiomatic expressiveness of words.
