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BOITO, ARRIGO (1842– )

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BOITO, ARRIGO (1842– ) , See also:Italian poet and musical composer, was See also:born at See also:Padua on the 24th of See also:February 1842. He studied See also:music at the See also:Milan See also:Conservatoire, but evenin those See also:early days he devoted as much of his See also:time to literature as to music, forecasting the divided See also:allegiance which was to be the See also:chief characteristic of his See also:life's See also:history. While at the Conservatoire he wrote and composed, in collaboration with Franco Faccio, a See also:cantata, Le Sorelle d'Italia, which was performed with success. On completing his studies Boito travelled for some years, and after his return to See also:Italy settled down in Milan, dividing his time between journalism and music. In 1866 he fought under See also:Garibaldi, and in 1868 conducted the first performance of his See also:opera Mefistofele at the Scala See also:theatre, Milan. The See also:work failed completely, and was withdrawn after a second performance. It was revived in 1875 at See also:Bologna in a much altered and abbreviated See also:form, when its success was beyond question. It was performed in See also:London in 188o with success, but in spite of frequent revivals has never succeeded in firmly establishing itself in popular favour. Boito treated the See also:Faust See also:legend in a spirit far more nearly akin to the conception of See also:Goethe than is found in See also:Gounod's Faust, but, in spite of many isolated beauties, his opera lacks cohesion and dramatic See also:interest. His energies were afterwards chiefly devoted to the See also:composition of libretti, of which the See also:principal are Otello and Falstaff, set to music by See also:Verdi; La Gioconda, set by See also:Ponchielli; Amleto, set by Faccio; and Ero e See also:Leandre, set by See also:Bottesini and Mancinelli. These See also:works display a rare knowledge of the requirements of dramatic See also:poetry, together with uncommon See also:literary value. Boito also published a See also:book of poems and a novel, L'Alfier See also:Mena The degree of See also:doctor of music was conferred upon him in 1893 by the university of See also:Cambridge.

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