Alberto Mazzucato was an Italian

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 composer

Composer

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, music teacher, and writer

Writer

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.

Mazzucato was born in Udine

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. Trained at the Padua Conservatory, he composed eight opera

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s between 1834 and 1843, of which his most successful was Esmeralda (1838). He also contributed music to the pastiche

Pastiche

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 La vergine di Kermo (1870) which also contained music by Carlo Pedrotti

Carlo Pedrotti

Carlo Pedrotti was an Italian conductor, administrator and composer, principally of opera. An associate of Giuseppe Verdi's, he also taught two internationally renowned Italian operatic tenors, Francesco Tamagno and Alessandro Bonci.-Early life:Pedrotti was born in Verona, where he studied music...

, Antonio Cagnoni

Antonio Cagnoni

Antonio Cagnoni was an Italian composer. Primarily known for his operas, his work is characterized by his use of leitmotifs and moderately dissonant harmonies. In addition to writing music for the stage, he composed a modest amount of sacred music, most notably a Requiem in 1888...

, Federico Ricci

Federico Ricci

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, Amilcare Ponchielli

Amilcare Ponchielli

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, and Giovanni Pacini

Giovanni Pacini

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. Along with Luigi Felice Rossi

Luigi Felice Rossi

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 and Guglielmo Quarenghi

Guglielmo Quarenghi

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, he formed the Società di S Cecilia in 1860.

After his last opera, Hernani, premiered at the Teatro Carlo Felice

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 in Genoa

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 on 26 December 1843, Mazzucato retired from his work as a composer in order to focus on his career as an educator. He had been appointed to the staff of the Milan Conservatory

Milan Conservatory

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 in 1843, eventually becoming its Director in 1872. Among his notable pupils were composers Arrigo Boito

Arrigo Boito

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, Benedetto Junck

Benedetto Junck

Benedetto Junck was an Italian composer, the son of an Italian woman and an Alsatian father. Born in Turin, he was trained there for a career in business, and began work in that line in Paris before turning to music. He studied with Alberto Mazzucato and Antonio Bazzini...

, Isidore de Lara

Isidore de Lara

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, Antônio Carlos Gomes

Antônio Carlos Gomes

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, and Ivan Zajc

Ivan Zajc

Ivan Dragutin Stjepan Zajc or Ivan pl. Zajc , was a Croatian composer, conductor, director and teacher who for over forty years dominated Croatia's musical culture...

, soprano

Soprano

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s Marcella Lotti della Santa

Marcella Lotti della Santa

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 and Marietta Gazzaniga

Marietta Gazzaniga

Marietta Gazzaniga was an Italian operatic soprano.Gazzaniga was born in Voghera and studied singing with Alberto Mazzucato in Milan...

, and tenor

Tenor

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 Sims Reeves

Sims Reeves

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. As a writer, he wrote articles for the Gazzetta musicale di Milano between 1845-1858. In 1859 he was appointed to the post of maestro direttore e concertatore at La Scala

La Scala

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, a position he held until 1868. He died nine years later in Milan at the age of 64.

Operas

• La fidanzata di Lammermoor (1834)
• Don Chisciotte (1836)
• Esmeralda (1838)
• Coro dei penitenti (1838)
• I corsari (1840)
• I due sergenti (1841)
• Luigi V, re di Francia (1843)
• Hernani (1843)
• La vergine di Kermo (1870)