- Luigi Boccherini
Born: 19 FEB 1743 in Lusca, Italy
Died: 28 MAY 1805 in Madrid, Spain- CHAMBER MUSIC:
- Sonata for Violoncello and Piano in A; String Quintet in E Major, Op. 13: No. 5
- CONCERTO:
- For Cello and Orchestra in E
- OTHER:
- Christmas Cantata
- SYMPHONY:
- In D, Op. 12; In D, Op. 35; in C, Op. 37, No. 1; In D, Op. 37, No. 2; In D Minor, Op. 37, No. 3; In C Minor, Op. 41; In D, Op. 42; In D, Op. 43; In D Minor, Op. 45, No. 5
- Marco Enrico Bossi
Born: 24 APR 1861 in Salò, Italy
Died: 24 FEB 1925 in Aboard steamship De Grasse- CONCERTO:
- For Organ and Orchestra in A Minor: ‘Adagio’; For Violin and Orchestra
- OPERA:
- Il Viandante; Il Veggente, Op. 69; L’Usignuola e la Rosa; Malombra; Paquita
- ORCHESTRAL (OTHER):
- Étude Symphonique; Inno Trionfale; Marcia Eroica; Processional March
- Maria Luigi Carlo Zenobio Cherubini
Born: 14 SEP 1760 in Florence, Italy
Died: 15 MAR 1842 in Paris, France- OPERA:
- Anacréon; Faniska; La Prisonnière; Les Deux Journées; Lodoïska; Medée
- ORCHESTRAL:
- Funeral March; Symphony in D
- Arcangelo Corelli
Born: 12 FEB 1653 in Fusignano, Italy
Died: 10 JAN 1713 in Rome, Italy- CHAMBER MUSIC:
- Sonata de Camera in B-flat Major; Sonata for Two Violins, Viola, and Organ
- CONCERTO GROSSO:
- #3 in C Minor, Opus 6; #6 in G Minor, Opus 6: ‘Christmas’
- Gaetano Donizetti
Born: 29 NOV 1797 in Bergamo, Italy
Died: 08 APR 1848 in Bergamo, Italy- OPERA:
- Don Pasquale; Don Sebastiano; La Favorite; La Fille du Régiment; L’Elisir d’Amore; Linda di Chamounix; Lucia di Lamermoor; Lucrezia Borgia; Zoraïde
- Ruggiero Leoncavallo
Born: 08 MAR 1858 in Naples, Italy
Died: 09 AUG 1919 in Montecatini, Italy- OPERA:
- Der Roland; Gli Zingari; Goffredo Mameli; I Medici; La Jeunesse de Figaro; La Reginalla delle Rose; Maia; Malbruk; Pagliacci; Zaza
- ORCHESTRAL:
- Serafita
- Niccolò Paganini
Born: 27 OCT 1782 in Genoa, Italy
Died: 27 MAY 1840 in Nice, France- VIOLIN:
- La Carnival de Venise; Witches’ Dance
- VIOLIN AND ORCHESTRA:
- Allegro de Concert; Concerto #1 in E-flat Major, Op. 6; Concerto #2 in B Minor, Op. 7; Concerto #3 in E; Concerto #4 in D Minor; Concerto #5 in A Minor; Moto Perpetuo; Variations on a Theme by Süssmayer; Variations on ‘God Save the King’
- VIOLIN AND PIANO:
- Caprice #2; Caprice #9; Caprice #20; Caprice #24; La Campanella
- Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina
Giovanni Pierluigi Sante
Born: ?? ??? 1525 in Palestrina, Italy
Died: 02 FEB 1594 in Rome, Italy- OTHER:
- Many litanies, madrigals, magnificats, masses, motets, and offeratories
- Amilcare Ponchielli
Born: 01 SEP 1834 in Cremona, Italy
Died: 16 JAN 1886 in Milan, Italy- OPERA:
- Bertrando del Bornio; I Mori di Venezia; I Promessi Sposi; Il Parlatore Eterno; La Gioconda; Roderico; La Savojarda; La Stella del Monte
- Giacomo Antonio Domenico Michele Secondo Maria Puccini
Born: 22 JUN 1858 in Lucca, Italy
Died: 29 NOV 1924 in Brussels, Belgium- OPERA:
- Il Tabarro; Gianni Schicchi; La Bohème; La Rondine; Madame Butterfly; Manon Lescaut; Suor Angelica; The Girl of the Golden West; Tosca
- Ottorino Respighi
Born: 09 JUL 1879 in Bologna, Italy
Died: 18 APR 1936 in Rome, Italy- OPERA:
- La Bella Dormenta Nel Bosco; La Campana Sommersa; La Fiamma; Lucrezia; Marie-Victoire; Semirama
- Giaocchini Antonio Rossini
Born: 29 FEB 1792 in Pesaro, Italy
Died: 13 NOV 1868 in Passy, Italy- OPERA:
- Elisabetta; La Cenerantola; La Gazza Ladra; L’Italiana in Algeri; Mosè; Otello; Semiramide; Tancredi; The Barber of Seville; William Tell; Zelmira
- Alessandro Scarletti
Born: ?? ??? 1659 in Palermo, Sicily
Died: 24 OCT 1725 in Naples, Italy- CHAMBER MUSIC:
- Sonata for Flute and Strings
- OPERA:
- Griselda; Il Trionfo del l’Onore; La Rosauro; Mitridate Eupatore; Telemaco; Teodora; Trigrane; Turno Aricino
- Giovanni Sgambati
Born: 28 MAY 1841 in Rome, Italy
Died: 15 DEC 1914 in Rome, Italy- CHAMBER MUSIC:
- String Quartet
- ORCHESTRAL:
- Epitalamio Sinfonico; Overture Solennelle; Piano Concerto in G
- Giuseppi Verdi
Born: 09 OCT 1813 in Parma, Italy
Died: 27 JAN 1901 in Milan, Italy- CHAMBER MUSIC:
- String Quartet in E Minor
- OPERA:
- Aïda; Don Carlos; Ernani; Falstaff; I Vespri Sicilianni; Il Travatore; La Forza del Destino; La Traviata; Luisa Miller; Macbeth; Otello; Rigoletto; Simon Boccanegra; Un Ballo in Maschera
- Antonio Vivaldi
Born: ?? ??? 1678 in Venice, Italy
Died: ?? ??? 1743 in Vienna, Austria- CONCERTO:
- For Recorder and Orchestra in C, P. 78; For Recorder, Oboe, Violin, Bassoon, and Orchestra in G Minor, P. 403; For Flute, Oboe, Bassoon, and Orchestra in G Minor, P. 402; For Flute, Two Violins, and Orchestra in A, P. 77; For Flute, Violin, Bassoon, and Orchestra in G, P. 404; For Oboe, Violin, Strings, and Orchestra in B-flat, P. 406; For Strings in A, P. 230; For Strings in F, P. 279; For Strings in C Minor, P. 427; For Two Horns and Strings in F, P. 320; For Two Trumpets in C
- CONCERTO GROSSO:
- #2; #5; #8; #9; #10; #11
- ORCHESTRAL (OTHER):
- The Four Seasons
- SONATA:
- For Violin and Piano in A Major; For Violoncello and String Quartet in E Minor; Trio in E Minor
