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Gaspare Spontini (14 November, 1774 – 24 January, 1851) was an Italian opera composer and conductor. Born in Maiolati (province of Ancona), Spontini spent most of his career in Paris and Berlin, but returned to his place of birth at the end of his life.

During the first two decades of the 19th century, Sponinti was an important figure in French opera seria[?]. In his more than twenty operas, Spontini strove to adapt Gluck's classical tragèdie lyrique to the contemporary taste for melodrama.

As a youth, Spontini studied at the Conservatorio della Pietà de'Turchini in Naples.

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In 1803, he went to Paris, where he was appointed court composer in 1805.

In 1807 Spontini wrote La Vestale, his best known work. Written with the encouragement of the Empress Josephine, its premiere at the Paris Opera established Spontini as one of the greatest Italian composers of his age.

His contemporaries Cherubini[?], Meyerbeer, Berlioz and Wagner considered it a masterpi