Donitsetti composer biography

The life history of Gaetano Donitnitti has a resemblance to the plot of one of his operas: a modest birth and years of hard work, a dizzying ascent to greatness and a final fall into madness. Possessing a sharp dramatic feeling, he played a central role in creating a romantic musical melodrama. His expressive style, based on Belcanto, paved the way to Verdi's achievements. In the year in the north of Italy in the small town of Bergamo, the future genius of opera art Gaetano Donitnitti was born.

He was the youngest child in the family. Parents, Andrea and Domenika Donitnitti, were poor and lived with their children outside the city walls in a very picturesque area called Borgo-channel. And, like an eagle owl, flying out of the nest, I always carried it in myself the bad, then happy forebodings. ” Father earned money as a watchman of the municipal pawnshop, and mother and daughter worked as seamstresses.

The elder brother of Gaetano, Giuseppe Donitnitti, became the court musician of the Ottoman Empire, he popularized the tradition of Western art music in modern Turkey. On April, the nine-year-old Gaetano enters the charity choir school for boys, led by the German musician and composer Simon Mayr, who holds the position of dropmaster in the church of Santa Maria-Majore in Bergamo since the year.

Mayr helped the young musician in every possible way, and provided a scholarship. Having studied for 9 years, Donizetti became the best student of the school. At the age of 16, he acted as a singer at the Della Sosyet Theater, and also helped the teacher in the church, earnings there with an archivist there. Donitnitti received further musical education at the Bologna musical lyceum - which became especially famous after Russia was graduated from Rossini five years ago.

Donitsetti studied with the same famous teacher - Padre Mattea. He presented the symphony to the first exam, which he conducted himself, and was awarded the second award. Over the years of training, spiritual works, instrumental quarters, as well as three one -act operas were written. The final exam program almost entirely consisted of Donitnitti's works, and the award “Signor Senator and the Council of the Wise” was the award.

In the year, after graduation at the age of twenty, Donitniti returned to Bergamo, since there were no prospects for a career in Bologna. Although his father hoped that his son would become a church composer, and Gaetano composed a huge amount of spiritual music, his calling was the theater. The theater was so impressed with this work that he immediately requested a few more works.

From this moment, the ascent of the young composer to the heights of glory and success began. In the year, Donitnitti writes the opera Zoraida Granadskaya for the new Argentine Theater in Rome, which has become even more successful than its previous works. Next year, Donitnitti moves to Naples, where he will live for 16 years. His first opera, written in a new place, was a “gypsy” that caused enthusiastic responses to the public.

There were even rumors, this opera liked Vinceno Bellini so much that he played his favorite melodies every day in his harpsichord. In the year, Donitsetti concludes a new contract with Barbay, by the condition of which he should write four operas for three years. The inspiration of the composer reaches his climax. He writes simultaneously for Rome, Milan and Naples.

In the same year, Donitsetti marries the singer and pianist Virginia Waselli. Unlike a brilliant career, the composer’s personal life was unsuccessful. After a year of living together, after a difficult pregnancy, their first child Filippo Francesco died twelve days later, two more children also did not survive. In the year, at the Milan Theater Karkano, the opera “Anna Boleyn” was set with a triumph, thanks to which Donitnitti’s reputation was established as one of the best opera composers.

This performance was also performed in Paris and London. At this time, many dramatic works have been written on which have great influences of censorship. The murder of five characters in Lucretius Borgia led to her ban in Naples, and only in Milan the performance was staged exactly as the author intended. In Naples, he takes the post of director of theaters and the place of the teacher of the conservatory, very respected at the same time; Nevertheless, in the year, the director of the conservatory becomes Mercadant.

It was a big blow to the composer. In the year, disappointed with the censors of Naples, Donitsetti leaves for Paris. Having later become the author and the head of private concerts at the Vienna court, he once again reveals his great opportunities. At the height of his career, Donitnitti continues to write at an incredible speed, unlike Verdi and Bellini, who composed fewer works after they achieved financial well -being.

Donitsetti could compose at an incredible speed. So, for example, according to legend, the comic opera “Love drink” was written in just 15 days, and “Lucia de Lammermur” in six weeks of work. He gets sick seriously in the year.After the death of his parents, three sons and his wife, he Donitnitti, who already suffered from syphilis, conveyed the disease to his wife, who died a year after his parents, his health is left, his health is shaken, including because of the incredible, titanic labor.

Gaetano himself suffered from malaise, headaches and nausea for decades, but he was never treated until he was diagnosed. The disease progressed, which made the musician stop working. The last operator of the composer, written in the year, was Don Sebastian. In the year, Donitsetti is striking in paralysis, followed by rapid dementia. His nephew Andrea arrived in Paris in January of the year and discovered that his uncle was irrationally and unpredictably behaved.

Doctors advised to determine Donitnitti in the hospital, to which Andrea agreed.

After some time, friends achieved permission to transport the composer to their homeland to Italy. The following year, Donitnitti was delivered back to Bergamo, where in April the world said goodbye to the great musician who wrote over 65 operas in just 32 years.