Gaetano Coronaro (18 December 1852 – 5 April 1908) was an Italian conductor, pedagogue, and composer. He was born in

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and had his initial musical training there followed by study from 1871 to 1873 at the

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under

Franco Faccio Francesco (Franco) Antonio Faccio (8 March 1840 – 21 July 1891) was an Italian composer and conductor. Born in Verona, he studied music at the Milan Conservatory from 1855 where he was a pupil of Stefano Ronchetti-Monteviti and, as scholar W ...

. He composed orchestral works, sacred music, and chamber pieces as well as several works for the stage. ''La creola'', which premiered at the

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in 1878, was the only one to have any success. Coronaro had settled in Milan by 1876 where he conducted at

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and taught at the Milan Conservatory. In 1894 he was made professor of composition there. Amongst his students was the composer Arrigo Pedrollo. Coronaro died in Milan at the age of 55. His brothers, Antonio (1851–1933) and Gellio Coronaro (1863–1916) were opera composers as well. Antonio was also the organist at

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from 1885 until his death.Kuhn, Laura D. (ed.) (2001
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''. via

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27 July 2014.

Operas

* ''Il tramonto'' – (melodramatic essay), libretto by

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; and ''La morte dell' Honwed'' – (Milan Conservatory, 8 August 1873) * ''La creola'' – ''

opera seria ''Opera seria'' (; plural: ''opere serie''; usually called ''dramma per musica'' or ''melodramma serio'') is an Italian musical term which refers to the noble and "serious" style of Italian opera that predominated in Europe from the 1710s to abou ...

'' in 3 acts, libretto by Eugenio and Maria Torelli-Vallier ( Teatro Comunale, Bologna, 27 November 1878) * ''II malacarne'' – ''dramma lirico'' in 3 acts, libretto by ( Teatro Grande, Brescia, 20 January 1894) * ''Un curioso accidente'' – ''scena lirica'' in 1 act, libretto by Virginia Tedeschi-Treves after Goldoni (Teatro Vittorio Emanuele, Turin, 11 November 1903) * ''Enoch Arden'' – libretto by Antonio Fogazzaro after

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(composed 1905, unperformed)Oddone, Elisabetta (1909
"Musicisti scomparsi: Gaetano Coronaro"
. ''Emporium'', Vol. XXIX, n. 172, pp. 313–318. Retrieved 27 July 2014 . * ''La signora di Challant'' – libretto by Giuseppe Giacosa from his play of the same name (composition date unknown, unperformed)

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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Coronaro, Gaetano 1852 births 1908 deaths Musicians from Vicenza Italian Romantic composers Italian opera composers Italian male opera composers Italian conductors (music) Italian male conductors (music) Milan Conservatory alumni Academic staff of Milan Conservatory 19th-century Italian musicians 19th-century Italian male musicians