Gaetano Donizetti (1797-1848) was a composer from Bergamo and a pupil of Giovanni Simone Mayr, who guided and instructed him.
He composed about 70 theatre pieces, cantatas, religious vocal songs, instrumental chamber music.
His operas circulated in the most important squares in Italy and around Europe. Some of his works – Lucia di Lammermoor, The Elixir of Love, Don Pasquale – are real evergreen operas, which never got out of the canon and are continuously represented throughout the world.
