His masterpiece La vestale influenced Bellini and Berlioz. Though Italian, Spontini is best known for his work in France during the Napoleonic era. Ludwig van Beethoven (1770–1827) Wrote only one opera, Fidelio, a tale of freedom from political oppression, which has become one of the major German language operas. The title role has proved a challenge to sopranos (including Maria Callas) since its premiere in 1797. Follower of Gluck, Cherubini's most famous opera is Médée. Among his other most successful operas were Les Danaïdes, Axur, re d'Ormus (the Italian version of French Tarare) and Falstaff. His opera Europa riconosciuta was composed for the inauguration of La Scala. Italian composer who was a major contributor to and shaper of Viennese musical life from 1770 to 1820, he also composed successful operas in Italy and Paris, and won admiration from German operagoers as a composer who, in the words of one contemporary critic, ‘could bind all the power of German music to the sweet Italian style’. #Best of opera music seriesMozart's series of comic collaborations ( The Marriage of Figaro, Don Giovanni, and Così fan tutte) with Lorenzo da Ponte are among the most popular operas in the repertoire today, along with his Singspiel The Magic Flute. Italian composer most famous for the opera buffa, Il matrimonio segreto, which forms a bridge between the comedies of Mozart and Rossini. Liège (present day Belgian) composer crucial to the development of French opéra comique, whose simplicity of musical style and sophisticated dramaturgy were immensely popular, as well as linking pre-revolutionary rococo comedy to the later romantic style. Italian composer who wrote the first opera to include Beaumarchais' character Figaro as a main character, as well as writing a substantial number of other operas, some of them in St. Haydn wrote nineteen operas including several comic operas and singspiels. In his reform operas from Orfeo ed Euridice onwards, he sought to throw off the formal conventions of opera seria and write music of "beautiful simplicity" (his own words).
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