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Jul 03, 1799 Barcellona Pozzo di Gotto, Sicily, Italy Died on 06 Jun 1852 (aged 52)
Italian composer
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About Placido Mandanici
- Placido Mandanici (3 July 1799, Barcellona Pozzo di Gotto – 6 June 1852, Genoa) was an Italian composer.
- He is best known for his operas.
- He graduated from the Music Lyceum in Palermo (1820), and then studied at Naples with Pietro Raimondi.
- In 1829 his first opera, L'isola disabitata, premiered in Naples. From 1834-1848 he worked in Milan as an opera and ballet composer and taught at the Milan Conservatory.
- He was a friend of Gaetano Donizetti and was a part of the artistic circle centered on Countess Yuliya Samoylova.
- To Samoylova he dedicated his opera Il buontempone di Porta Ticinese (1841).
- Mandanici spent the last years of his life in Genoa.
