Donizetti, a celebrated Italian composer, born at Bergamo, Lombardy, and studied at Bologna; devoted himself to dramatic music; produced over 60 operas, among the number “Lucia di Lammermoor,” the “Daughter of the Regiment,” “Lucrezia Borgia,” and “La Favorita,” all well known, and all possessing a melodious quality of the first order (1797‒1848).
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
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