Vincenzo Bellini – Biographical information from Henze-Digital

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Vincenzo Bellini, portrait byPietro Lucchini (Source: Wikimedia)

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November 3, 1801 in Catania
†

September 23, 1835 in Puteaux (Paris)
Komponist

Iconography

Vincenzo Bellini, portrait byPietro Lucchini (Source: Wikimedia)

Bellini's birthplace, the Palazzo Gravina-Cruyllas, Catania, circa 1800 (Source: Wikimedia)

Composer Niccolò Antonio Zingarelli (Source: Wikimedia)

Adelson e Salvini: autograph of the score (Source: Wikimedia)

King Francesco I, who gave his personal approval to Bellini's Bianca e Gernando (Source: Wikimedia)

Librettist Felice Romani (Source: Wikimedia)

Bellini around 1830(artist unknown) (Source: Wikimedia)

The Nuovo Teatro Ducale in 1829 (Source: Wikimedia)

Poster for Nuovo's opening night (Source: Wikimedia)

Maria Malibran as Romeo-Bologna, 1832 (Source: Wikimedia)

Portrait of Bellini byJean-François Millet (Source: Wikimedia)

Norma: Donzelli, Grisi, and Pasta, the original cast (Source: Wikimedia)

Teatro della Munizione, Messina (as known in the early 19th century) (Source: Wikimedia)

Foyer of the Teatro della Pergola, after redecoration in the 1850s (Source: Wikimedia)

Giuditta Pasta sang Beatrice (Source: Wikimedia)

Librettist Felice Romani (Source: Wikimedia)

King's Theatre, London (aka Italian Opera House) by Thomas Hosmer Shepherd, 1827–28 (Source: Wikimedia)

Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, 1812 (Source: Wikimedia)

The Théâtre-Italien in 1829 (Source: Wikimedia)

Librettist Carlo Pepoli (Source: Wikimedia)

Rubini as Arturo in I Puritani, Paris 1835 (Source: Wikimedia)

Monument to Bellini erected in 1839 at Père Lachaise Cemetery (Source: Wikimedia)

Bellini's tomb in the Catania Cathedral in Sicily (Source: Wikimedia)

Musical notation, inscribed on Bellini's tomb, from Amina's last aria in La sonnambula: "Ah! non-credea mirarti / Sì presto estinto, o fiore", translated as: "I did not believe you would fade so soon, oh flower" (Source: Wikimedia)

A portrait of Francesco Florimo in later life (Source: Wikimedia)

Giuditta Turina (Source: Wikimedia)

Bildnis des Vincenzo Bellini, Payne, Albert Henry - 1851/1900 (Quelle: Digitaler Portraitindex)

Bildnis des Vincenzo Bellini, Johan Cardon - um 1835 (Quelle: Digitaler Portraitindex)

Bildnis des Vincenzo Bellini, unbekannter Künstler - um 1830 (Quelle: Digitaler Portraitindex)

Bildnis des Vincenzo Bellini, Charles-Alphonse Deblois (Ungesichert) - vor 1868 (Quelle: Digitaler Portraitindex)

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Hans Werner Henze's network of artists. Digital letter edition, https://henze-digital.zenmem.de/A0007FC8 (Version 4.0.0 of April 30, 2024)

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