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Amilcare Ponchielli , 1834-86, Italian composer of several very successful operas. Only La Gioconda (1876), with libretto by Boito after Hugo's Angelo, is still performed.

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Ponchielli, Amilcare (b Paderno, 1834; d Milan, 1886). It. composer. Org. at Cremona. First opera, I promessi sposi, prod. Cremona 1856 and in rev. version at Milan 1872. Comp. ballet and several operas of which only La Gioconda (Milan 1876) has held its place. Choirmaster Bergamo Cath., 1881. Taught comp. Milan Cons. from 1880, pupils incl. Puccini and Mascagni.

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	Sex and composers Magazine article from: The Spectator; 3/8/1997; ; 700+ words ; ...composers Donizetti, Verdi and Ponchielli. In it, he listed by name all...I, for one, knew nothing of Amilcare Ponchielli except that he wrote La Gioconda...authority or self defence . . . Ponchielli lacked a striking personality...
	MARINE CORP BAND FEATURES PROFESSOR'S WORK News Wire article from: US Fed News Service, Including US State News; 1/7/2007; 419 words ; ...adaptation for modern band of Amilcare Ponchielli's "Variazioni Sopra Carnevale...today Piazza Stradivari-in Ponchielli's hometown of Cremona, Italy...solo part for the bells that Ponchielli himself played from a keyboard...
	A TRUMPET LEGACY Magazine article from: Fanfare; 1/1/2008; ; 700+ words ; ...09) PERRY Trumpet Concerto. 2 Dance Pieces. PONCHIELLI Trumpet Concerto in F (arr. Breiner). MOLTER...fun and a most appropriate way to close the disc. Amilcare Ponchielli is of course best known for his 1876 opera, La gioconda...
	`Gioconda,' Spectacularly Good Newspaper article from: The Washington Post; 10/15/1996; ; 700+ words ; During the three intermissions of Amilcare Ponchielli's "La Gioconda" Thursday night in the Lyric Opera House...cetera. The women in the Baltimore cast rise splendidly to Ponchielli's musical challenges. The best-known is Bulgarian...
	PHILHARMONIA ORCHESTRA WILL PRESENT FREE CONCERT ON OCT. 15 News Wire article from: US Fed News Service, Including US State News; 10/3/2006; 700+ words ; ...of the Hours" from the opera "La Gioconda" by Amilcare Ponchielli, with Stapleton conducting; and - Starr leading...composer of the generation between Verdi and Puccini, Ponchielli is known to concert-goers as the composer of...
	In Review: BARCELONA Magazine article from: Opera News; 2/1/2006; ; 700+ words ; INTERNATIONAL BARCELONA Amilcare Ponchielli's only opera still surviving in the international repertory is a curiosity; overblown and grandiloquent, La Gioconda is an...
	Los Angeles Youth Orchestra to Premiere at Walt Disney Concert Hall. PR Newswire; 10/18/2007; 686 words ; ...Kenneth and Wendy Ruby LA FORZA DEL DESTINO SINFONIA by Guiseppe Verdi DANCE OF THE HOURS from "La Gioconda" by Amilcare Ponchielli The Los Angeles Youth Orchestra offers additional performances at Milken Community High School of Stephen S. Wise...
	Metropolitan Opera broadcasts of March 20, 1999: Tosca Magazine article from: Opera News; 3/1/1999; ; 700+ words ; ...lyric theater as his calling and got a scholarship to study at the Milan Conservatory with Antonio Bazzini and Amilcare Ponchielli. After the lyricism of Le Villi and La Boheme and the romance of Edgar and Manon Lescaut, Puccini felt ready...