Gaetano Donizetti, Italian composer (born 1797)

Gaetano Donizetti

Italian opera composer (1797–1848)

Domenico Gaetano Maria Donizetti was an Italian Romantic composer, best known for his almost 70 operas. Along with Gioachino Rossini and Vincenzo Bellini, he was a leading composer of the bel canto opera style during the first half of the nineteenth century and a probable…