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Composer of the Week

Music: Classical

An informative guide to composers' lives and their music.

An informative and accessible guide to composers' lives and their music.

Composer of the Week: Gaetano Donizetti (1797-1848)

Composer of the Week: Gaetano Donizetti (1797-1848): Episode 4: Sadness and Success

Gaetano Donizetti (1797-1848)

Episode 4

Episode 4: Sadness and Success

Sadness and Success

BBC Radio 3 - Composer of the Week, Gaetano Donizetti (1797-1848), Sadness and Success

Donald Macleod focuses on Donizetti's life in the late 1830s.

Donald Macleod focuses on Donizetti's life in the late 1830s, by which time he had tired completely of Naples.

Gaetano Donizetti composed almost 70 operas in 19th-century Italy, the age of the impresario, the prima donna and the star tenor. Donald Macleod traces his extraordinary life.

By the late 1830s Donizetti had tired completely of Naples, exasperated by the censors' meddling and impresarios' incompetence. He was also devastated by grief, having lost his wife and newborn child. Deciding to settle in Paris, he delighted audiences at the Theatre-Italien with his operas La Fille du Regiment and La Favorite.

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Donald Macleod explores the life and work of Gaetano Donizetti

Donald Macleod explores the life and work of Gaetano Donizetti, who composed almost 70 operas in 19th-century Italy

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