Gaspare Spontini - Ecco Le Marche

250 anniversary of Gaspare Spontini

The name of our neighboring municipality Maiolati Spontini intrigued me from the moment we came to live in Poggio Cupro. Spontini turned out to be the name of a very important composer at Napoleon’s court.He was born in Maiolati in 1774 and died there in 1851, a few months after Read more…

By Laura, 8 months4 April 2024 ago

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A new life for the composer Niccolò Bonanni

It’s always the same story in every noble art: we know the prodigious artist, but nobody remembers the master beyond him. Niccolò Bonanni shares the same (unlucky) destiny of many important masters: he was the teacher of the famous composer Gaspare Spontini, who would once shine at the court of Napoleon. Read more…

By Laura, 6 years28 June 2018 ago