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Biography
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Amilcare Ponchielli
Effective period / Period of releases: 1941 - 2022
Amilcare Ponchielli (August 31, 1834 – January 16, 1886) was an Italian composer, mainly of operas. He won a scholarship at the age of nine to study music at the Milan Conservatory, writing his first symphony by the time he was ten years old. Two years after leaving the conservatory he wrote his first opera.