Donizetti

a celebrated Italian composer, born at Bergamo, Lombardy, and studied at Bologna; devoted himself to dramatic music; produced over 60 operas, among the number "Lucia di Lammer moor," the "Daughter of the Regiment," "Lucrezia Borgia," and "La Favor it a," all well known, and all po e ing a melodious quality of the first order (1797-1848).