Pasquale Bona
Composer from Italy
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| Intro | Composer from Italy | |
| Places | Italy | |
| was | Musician Composer Music theorist | |
| Work field | Music | |
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| Birth | 3 November 1808, Cerignola | |
| Death | 2 December 1878Milan (aged 70 years) |
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Biography
Pasquale Bona (Cerignola, November 3, 1808 – Milan, December 2, 1878) was an Italian composer. He studied music in Palermo. He composed a number of operas, including one based on the Schiller play that would later inspire Giuseppe Verdi's Don Carlos. Bona later taught at the Conservatory in Milan, where he counted among his pupils Amilcare Ponchielli, Arrigo Boito, Franco Faccio and Alfredo Catalani; he was also friends with Alessandro Manzoni.
Operas
- Il Tutore e il Diavolo, libretto by Giovanni Schmidt (1832)
- I Luna e i Perollo, libretto by Giacomo Sacchero (1844)
- Don Carlo, libretto by Giorgio Giachetti (1847)
- Il Gladiatore, libretto by Francesco Guidi (1849)
- Vittoria, madre degli eserciti, libretto by Marco Marcelliano Marcello (1863)