Martino Frontini (1827–1909) 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 writer. He was born and died in

Catania Catania (, , , Sicilian and ) is the second-largest municipality on Sicily, after Palermo, both by area and by population. Despite being the second city of the island, Catania is the center of the most densely populated Sicilian conurbation, wh ...

, and worked with many Catanian musicians in the second half of the nineteenth century. Frontini was the father, and first teacher, of composer Francesco Paolo Frontini. He founded the town

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, which he led for 37 years; he also directed the band of the regional hospital during his career. He composed numerous works, becoming especially known for his

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es; in larger forms, he wrote a three-act lyric

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(''Marco Bozzari''), an "''azione coreografica''" (''Fatima'') and a fantastic

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(''La Rivolta dell'Olimpo''). As a writer he published a biography of Pietro Antonio Coppola in 1876. He died in Catania in 1909.

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1827 births 1909 deaths Musicians from the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies Italian composers Italian male composers Italian male writers Musicians from Catania 19th-century Italian musicians 19th-century Italian male musicians {{Opera-bio-stub