Stefano Gobatti (

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, 5 July 1852 –

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, 17 December 1913) was an Italian opera composer. Gobatti was born in 1852 in the

Province of Rovigo The province of Rovigo () is a province in the Veneto region of Italy. Its capital is the city of Rovigo. It borders on the north with the provinces of Verona, Padua and Venice, on the south with the province of Ferrara, on the west with the provi ...

in a poor and humble peasant family. He passionately studied music and immediately had results, and was taught under Giuseppe Busi and

Lauro Rossi Lauro Rossi (born in Macerata, 19 February 1810;Some sources say 1812. died in Cremona, 5 May 1885), was an Italian composer, particularly of operas. There is no known connection with Luigi Rossi (1597–1653). Life and career Rossi studied i ...

. At just eighteen, he composed the opera '' I goti'' which was staged on 30 November 1873 at the

Teatro Comunale di Bologna The Teatro Comunale di Bologna is an opera house in Bologna, Italy. Typically, it presents eight operas with six performances during its November to April season. While there had been various theatres presenting opera in Bologna since the early ...

. The work was an unprecedented success. Within a short period he was the "Freeman of the City of Bologna" and appointed ''Member of Honor of the Accademia Filarmonica'' in

and appointed ''Knight of the Crown of Italy'' granted by King

Vittorio Emanuele II Victor Emmanuel II (; full name: ''Vittorio Emanuele Maria Alberto Eugenio Ferdinando Tommaso di House of Savoy, Savoia''; 14 March 1820 – 9 January 1878) was King of Sardinia (also informally known as Piedmont–Sardinia) from 23 March 1849 u ...

. Under pressure from music publishers and their purely economic interests, his later works such as ''Luce'' (1875) and ''Cordelia'' (1881), were inevitably marked by conflicting adversity. Gobatti, disappointed and embittered, increasingly sought refuge in a Franciscan convent in the hills of Bologna, and lived there as a monk in extreme poverty. He died on 17 December 1913 and was buried at the Cimitero Monumentale Della Certosa.Find a Grave
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* Italian opera composers Italian male opera composers 1852 births 1913 deaths Composers awarded knighthoods Italian Romantic composers People from the Province of Rovigo Italian Franciscans 19th-century Italian classical composers 19th-century Italian male musicians {{Italy-composer-stub