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Vincenzo Bellini, portrait by Pietro Lucchini. Vincenzo Salvatore Carmelo Francesco Bellini (Italian: [vinˈtʃɛntso salvaˈtoːre karˈmɛːlo franˈtʃesko belˈliːni] ⓘ; 3 November 1801 – 23 September 1835) was an Italian opera composer, who was known for his long-flowing melodic lines for which he was named "the Swan of Catania".
Vincenzo Bellini (born November 3, 1801, Catania, Sicily [Italy]—died September 23, 1835, Puteaux, near Paris, France) was an Italian operatic composer with a gift for creating vocal melody at once pure in style and sensuous in expression.
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Alexandra Wilson explores the short but lavishly successful life of Vincenzo Bellini, an opera composer feted throughout Europe.
Apr 27, 2017 · Vincenzo Bellini (b. 1801–d. 1835) was a leading Italian opera composer of the early 19th century. During his brief yet sensational career, many of his works figured prominently on the principal European stages, and some of them, including Norma , La sonnambula , and I puritani , remain among the works most often performed in the world’s ...
Nov 3, 2018 · Vincenzo Bellini is one of the most famous composers of the bel canto era. Born on Nov. 3, 1801, the composer would become well-known for his expansive melodies that would become the inspiration for many Italian composers thereafter.
The blond-haired Sicilian Vincenzo Bellini took Italian opera forward into the Romantic period. In his short life, he produced some of the greatest masterpieces of his age. New works were received with an enthusiastic curiosity that could vary from rapturous acclaim to noisily expressed disapproval.
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Vincenzo Bellini. The first-born son of a modest family of musicians from Abruzzo, Vincenzo Bellini was born in Catania on 3 rd November 1801, to Rosario Bellini and Agata Ferlito.
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