While in the Milan conservatory, where he was a student for nine years, he wrote the introduction and one aria in a team of four composers for the opera Il Sindacco Babbeo. An organist at Cremona, he revised his first opera I promessi sposi for the opening of the Teatro dal Verme in Milan. Librettist Arrigo Boito, using the pseudonym Tobia Gorro, took the Victor Hugo play Angelo, Tyrant of Padua for his opera La Gioconda. For 10 points, name this Italian composer who wrote the [supremely annoying] ballet within that opera, "Dance of the Hours."
While in the Milan conservatory, where he was a student for nine years, he wrote the introduction and one aria in a team of four composers for the opera Il Sindacco Babbeo. An organist at Cremona, he revised his first opera I promessi sposi for the opening of the Teatro dal Verme in Milan. Librettist Arrigo Boito, using the pseudonym Tobia Gorro, took the Victor Hugo play Angelo, Tyrant of Padua for his opera La Gioconda. For 10 points, name this Italian composer who wrote the [supremely annoying] ballet within that opera, "Dance of the Hours."
While in the Milan conservatory, where he was a student for nine years, he wrote the introduction and one aria in a team of four composers for the opera Il Sindacco Babbeo.