Note 73 — Chapter XI · THE OPERATIC SEQUEL TO VERDI
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B. Padua, Feb. 24, 1842, pupil of the Milan Conservatory, but cosmopolitan in his influences, having visited Paris, Germany (where he was interested in Wagner) and Poland, his mother's home. Two cantatas, 'The Fourth of June' (1860) and Le sorelle d'Italia (1862), were his first published efforts.