Gazzaniga, Giuseppe

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Gazzaniga, Giuseppe (b Verona, 1743; d Crema, 1818). It. composer. Comp. 47 operas, of which most successful was Don Giovanni Tenorio ossia Il Convitato di pietra, Venice 1787 and in Paris and Lisbon 1792 and London 1794. Choirmaster, Crema Cath. 1791.

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