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VINCENZO BELLINI

3rdNovember 1801 --- 23rdSeptember 1835

Bellini,  whose tragically  early death  robbed Italian music of an outstanding talent,  had the characteristic
Italian facility for melody and wrote in the Italian tradition of bel canta.

This vocal style,  in  which brightness of tone and virtuoso agility are at premium, was in marked contrast to
the somewhat lugubrious and fulsome style which was to pass for operatic singing which once the tradition
of Wagnerian musical drama was established.

Although the  music of Italian opera  was less portentous than that of the German and in truth less capable
of  weighty expressiveness,  yet when the music  of a master of the  style like Bellini is sung by a voice able
to meet its demands, we can fully understand its immense vogue.

Among Bellini's  operas  were  Norma (1831),  a tragedy about  a Druid priestess and a  Roman soldier,  La
Sonnambula (1831) and finally I Puritani, set in the English Civil War and first produced in Paris in 1835.

© From "The Larousse Encyclopedia of Music"

Last Updated on 2023
By Steven Ritchie

And now for the Music

(1915)"March from Norma". Sequenced by Reginald Steven Ritchie

Thanks to W.Pepperdine for the following music below.

New (3928)"Inroduction & Polonaise from I Puritani. Sequenced by .W.Pepperdine.

New (3927)"Vi ravviso o luoghi ameni_Sonnambula". Sequencer Unknown.

Thanks to Eric Halstead for the following music below.

(1914)"Overture to his Opera Norma". Sequenced by Eric Halstead.

(1913)"L'Absent melody". Sequenced by Goninet

(1912)"Unknown Bellini piece". Sequenced by F.Borsari.

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