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Gaspare Spontini
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Spontini was an Italian opera composer and conductor, and he was the central figure in French serious opera in the first two decades of the 19th century. He was in Paris and Berlin: in his early years in Paris, he was to call himself a pupil of Cimarosa. 
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Spontini's non-operatis music is of little interest: it consists mostly of a large body of songs in an ephemeral style. He wrote more than 20 operas: the most important, "La Vestale", represents the Gluckian "tragèdie lyrique" adapted to the taste of Empire audiences with stronger melodrama.
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