Herbert Weinstock: Donizetti – And the world of opera in Italy, Paris & Vienna in the first half of the nineteenth century

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This book is the first full-length biography in English of the composer of “Don Pasquale” and “Lucia di Lammermoor”. Operatically speaking, Gaetano Donizetti shared the first half of the Italian nineteenth century with Rossini and Bellini. Long active throughout Italy, he later branched out to delight audiences in Paris and Vienna.