Carlo Eduardo Acton (25 August 1829 – 2 February 1909) was an Italian

composer A composer is a person who writes music. The term is especially used to indicate composers of Western classical music, or those who are composers by occupation. Many composers are, or were, also skilled performers of music. Etymology and def ...

and concert

pianist A pianist ( , ) is a musician who plays the piano. A pianist's repertoire may include music from a diverse variety of styles, such as traditional classical music, jazz piano, jazz, blues piano, blues, and popular music, including rock music, ...

. He is particularly remembered for his

opera Opera is a form of History of theatre#European theatre, Western theatre in which music is a fundamental component and dramatic roles are taken by Singing, singers. Such a "work" (the literal translation of the Italian word "opera") is typically ...

''Una cena in convitto'' and for his sacred music compositions of which his ''Tantum ergo'' is the most well-known.Opera at Stanford University
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/ref> His father, Francis Charles Acton (1796-1865), was the youngest son of General Joseph Acton, younger brother of

Sir John Acton, 6th Baronet Sir John Francis Edward Acton, 6th Baronet (3 June 1736 12 August 1811) was a French-born English gentleman who served as Commander of the naval forces of the Grand Duchy of Tuscany and later as Prime Minister of the Kingdom of Naples under ...

. His mother Esther was a daughter of the Irish painter Robert Fagan.

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1829 births 1909 deaths Italian classical composers Italian opera composers Italian male opera composers 19th-century Italian pianists 19th-century Italian composers 19th-century Italian male musicians {{italy-composer-stub