Pasquale Bona
Appearance
Pasquale Bona (Cerignola, November 3, 1808 – Milan, December 2, 1878) was an Italian composer. He studied music at the Palermo Conservatory. 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
[edit]- 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)
References
[edit]- Andrea Sessa, Il melodramma italiano 1861-1900. Dizionario bio-bibliografico dei compositori, Olschki, Firenze 2003, p. 56.
Categories:
- 1808 births
- 1878 deaths
- Italian classical composers
- Italian opera composers
- Italian male opera composers
- Palermo Conservatory alumni
- People from Cerignola
- 19th-century classical composers
- 19th-century Italian composers
- 19th-century Italian male musicians
- Musicians from the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies
- Italian composer stubs