Amilcare Ponchielli
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Country of Birth: | Italy |
Year of Birth: | 1834 |
Year of Death: | 1886 |
About the composer Amilcare Ponchielli
Amilcare Ponchielli (Italian pronunciation: , August 31, 1834 - January 16, 1886) was an Italian composer, mainly of operas.
Born in Paderno Fasolaro, now Paderno Ponchielli, near Cremona, Ponchielli won a scholarship at the age of nine to study music at the Milan Conservatory, writing his first symphony by the time he was ten years old.
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