Biography

Gaspare Spontini was born on November 14th, 1774, in Maiolati, a “castle” in the countryside of Jesi, in the Marca of Ancona, second born son of Giambattista and Teresa Guadagnini. His family, that originally came from Albacina, belonging to Fabriano’s territory, was called Sponta, that means “spuntò il sol“, (the sun rose), as the family’s coat of arms shows. Only later the diminutive was added, becoming Spontino. Driven by his father to embrace the religious life, following the example of his brothers, Gaspare Spontini, as a child was sent to the church of Santa Maria del Piano, in Jesi, by his fatherly uncle, don Giuseppe Spontini. After a short period of studies, personally supervised by his uncle, Spontini was admitted in the seminar of Jesi, as the headstones laid in 1850 inside the building testifies. Impatient to the ecclesiastical studies, the young Spontini succeeded in attending music lessons and overcoming the opposition of his father, that finally let him free to complete the musical education in Naples.

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AUCASSIN ET NICOLETTE_Pergolesi Spontini Festival
JESI TEATRO G.B. PERGOLESI AUCASSIN ET NICOLETTE Cantafavola del XII Secolo per una voce, qualche strumento e qualche marionetta musica di Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco soprano Chiara Ersilia Trapani soprano Evgenia [...]
PIANETTI EXPERIENCE_Pergolesi Spontini Festival
JESI, MUSEI CIVICI DI PALAZZO PIANETTI PIANETTI EXPERIENCE musiche di Spinacino, Borrono, Cutting, Dowland, Gastoldi, Verdolet, Galilei, Vecchi, Veracini, Bach, Puccini Solisti della Scuola Musicale G.B. Pergolesi di [...]
PIANETTI EXPERIENCE_Pergolesi Spontini Festival
JESI, MUSEI CIVICI DI PALAZZO PIANETTI PIANETTI EXPERIENCE musiche di Spinacino, Borrono, Cutting, Dowland, Gastoldi, Verdolet, Galilei, Vecchi, Veracini, Bach, Puccini Solisti della Scuola Musicale G.B. Pergolesi di [...]
PIANETTI EXPERIENCE_Pergolesi Spontini Festival
JESI, MUSEI CIVICI DI PALAZZO PIANETTI PIANETTI EXPERIENCE musiche di Spinacino, Borrono, Cutting, Dowland, Gastoldi, Verdolet, Galilei, Vecchi, Veracini, Bach, Puccini Solisti della Scuola Musicale G.B. Pergolesi di [...]
PIANETTI EXPERIENCE_Pergolesi Spontini Festival
JESI, MUSEI CIVICI DI PALAZZO PIANETTI PIANETTI EXPERIENCE musiche di Spinacino, Borrono, Cutting, Dowland, Gastoldi, Verdolet, Galilei, Vecchi, Veracini, Bach, Puccini Solisti della Scuola Musicale G.B. Pergolesi di [...]
SUITE ITALIENNE_Pergolesi Spontini Festival
JESI, PIAZZA DELLE MONACHETTE SUITE ITALIENNE musiche di Castelnuovo-Tedesco, Respighi, Stravinskj, Corigliano, Szymanowski violino Francesca Dego pianoforte Francesca Leonardi Scopri di più!  Acquista subito  Futuro.Infinito
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