Barbieri, Carlo Emanuele
Barbieri, Carlo Emanuele
Barbieri, Carlo Emanuele, Italian conductor and composer; b. Genoa, Oct. 22, 1822; d. Pest, Sept. 28, 1867. He was educated at the Naples Cons., where he studied voice with Crescenti and composition with Mercadante. In 1845 he embarked on a career as an opera conductor; eventually settled in Buda, where he conducted at the National Theater from 1862 until his death. He wrote five operas: Cristoforo Colombo (Berlin, 1848), Nisida, la perla di Procida (1851), Carlo und Carlin (1859), Arabella (Buda, 1862), and Perdita, ein Winter-marchen (Leipzig, 1865).
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