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PONCHIELLI, AMILCARE (1834-1886)

This article appears in Volume V22, Page 60 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: POL-PRE
PONCHIELLI, AMILCARE (1834-1886) , Italian musical composer, was born near Cremona on the 1st of September 1834. He studied at the
Milan
  Conservatoire. His first dramatic
work
 , written in collaboration with two other composers, was Il Sindaco Babbeo (1851). After completing his studies at
Milan
  he returned to Cremona, where his opera I Promessi sposi was produced in 1856. This was followed by La Savojarda (1861, produced in a revised version as Lina in 1877), Roderigo, re dei Goti (1864), and La Stella del monte (1867). , A revised version of I Promessi sposi, which was produced. at Milan in 1872, was his first. genuine success. After this came a ballet, Le Due Gemelle (1873), and an opera, I Lituani (1874, produced in a revised version as Alduna in 1884).
Ponchielli
  reached the zenith of his fame with La Gioconda (1876), written to a libretto founded by Arrigo Boito upon
Victor
  Hugo's tragedy, Angelo, Tyran de Padoue. La Gioconda was followed by II Figliuol prodigo (1880) and Marion Delorme (1885). Among his less
important works are Il Parlatore eterno, a musical farce (1873), and a ballet,
Clarina
  (1893). In 1881
Ponchielli
  was made maestro di cappella of Piacenza
Cathedral
 . His music shows the
influence
  of Verdi, but at its best it has a distinct value of its own, and an inexhaustible flow of typically Italian melody. His fondness for fanciful figures in his accompaniments has been slavishly imitated by Mascagni,
Leoncavallo
 , and many of their contemporaries. Ponchielli died at Milan on the 17th of January 1886.


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