![]() ![]() Those musicologists who consider Bellini to be merely a melancholic tunesmith are now in the minority. Of the 19th-century giants, only Berlioz demurred. Liszt and Chopin professed themselves fans. ![]() Verdi raved about his "long, long, long melodies such as no one before had written." Wagner, who rarely liked anyone but himself, was spellbound by Bellini's almost uncanny ability to match music with text and psychology. also hugely influential, as much admired by other composers as he was by the public. Other sources of information come from correspondence saved by other friends and business acquaintances.īellini was the quintessential composer of the Italian bel canto era of the early 19th century, and his work has been summed up by the London critic Tim Ashley as: Many years later, in 1898, Giuseppe Verdi "praised the broad curves of Bellini's melody: 'there are extremely long melodies as no-one else had ever made before'." Ī large amount of what is known about Bellini's life and his activities comes from surviving letters-except for a short period-which were written over his lifetime to his friend Francesco Florimo, whom he had met as a fellow student in Naples and with whom he maintained a lifelong friendship. ![]() Vincenzo Salvatore Carmelo Francesco Bellini ( Italian: ( listen) 3 November 1801 – 23 September 1835) was an Sicilian opera composer, who was known for his long-flowing melodic lines for which he was named "the Swan of Catania".
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