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Nov 06, 1788 Bergamo, Lombardy, Italy Died on 12 Feb 1856 (aged 67)
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About Giuseppe Donizetti
- Giuseppe Donizetti (6 November 1788 – 12 February 1856) was an Italian musician.
- From 1828 he was Instructor General of the Imperial Ottoman Music at the court of Sultan Mahmud II (1808–39). His younger brother was the famous opera composer Gaetano Donizetti.
- He studied music first with his uncle, Carini Donizetti, and, later, he was a pupil of Simone Mayr.
- After enlisting in Napoleon's army (1808), he served there as band leader.
- He took part in the campaigns against Austria and in Spain, and followed Napoleon to Elba.
- He was present at the Battle of Waterloo.
- After the fall of Napoleon, he continued his career as a bandmaster in the Savoy army.
- Giuseppe Donizetti Pasha, as he was called in the Ottoman Empire, played a significant role in the introduction of European music to the Ottoman military.
- Apart from overseeing the training of the European-style military bands of Mahmud’s modern army, he taught music at the palace to the members of the Ottoman royal family, the princes and the ladies of the harem, is believed to have composed the first national anthem of the Ottoman Empire, supported the annual Italian opera season in Pera, organised concerts and operatic performances at court, and played host to a number of eminent virtuosi who visited Istanbul at the time, such as Franz Liszt, Parish Alvars and Leopold de Meyer.
- Although the elder Donizetti was born in Bergamo, Italy, Constantinople became a second home for him, and he lived there until his death in 1856.
- He is buried in the vaults of the St.
- Esprit Cathedral, near the Beyoglu district of Istanbul, in Pera. Emre Araci published a comprehensive biography of Giuseppe Donizetti in Turkish in 2007.
- The volume Giuseppe Donizetti Pasha: Musical and Historical Trajectories between Italy and Turkey, edited by Federico Spinetti, was published in English and Italian by the Fondazione Donizetti in 2010.
