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    Francesco Florimo (12 October 1800 – 18 December 1888) was an Italian librarian, musicologist, historian of music, and composer. Florimo was born in San...
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    were written, except for a short period, throughout his lifetime to Francesco Florimo, whom he had met as a fellow student in Naples and with whom he maintained...
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  • Florimo is an Italian surname. Notable people with this name include: Francesco Florimo (1800–1888), Italian librarian, musicologist, historian of music...
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    colourful anecdotes related by Pergolesi's 19th-century biographer Francesco Florimo were later revealed as hoaxes. Pergolesi died on 16 or 17 March 1736...
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  • Francesco Fiorentino, philosopher and historiographer Francesco Florimo, 19th-century archivist, musicologist, music historian and composer Francesco...
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    perfection as possible. After the premiere, Bellini reported to his friend Francesco Florimo in Naples that: The French had all gone mad; there were such noise...
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  • of valved brass instruments is patented by Adolphe Sax in France. Francesco Florimo – La Tarantella Louis Moreau Gottschalk – Bamboula: A Fantasy for...
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    Cosenza" since he then quotes a letter from Bellini to his friend Francesco Florimo in which he says that Romani "certainly will not follow the play"...
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    with what Weinstock describes as "chill indifference". To his friend Francesco Florimo, on the night of the premiere, Bellini wrote "Fiasco! Fiasco! Solemn...
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    what Bellini was looking for in a libretto, according to a letter to Francesco Florimo, of 4 August 1834, and he found them in Romani. The two, however,...
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