biography
pronunciation:
[boheetoh]
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| male
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| lived:
| (1842–1918)
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| biography:
| Poet, composer, and writer, born in Padua, NE Italy. He studied at the Milan Conservatory. The brother of architect and writer Camillo Boito, he pursued musical innovation in different fields. In his operas Mefistofele (1868–75) and the unfinished Nerone, he attempted to overcome conventional formulas. In his poetry, which was connected with the scapigliatura movement, words are equated to music, as in Re Orso (1865). As a writer of librettos, he collaborated with Ponchielli (La Gioconda, written under the name Tobia Gorrio) but was at his best with Verdi (Otello, 1887; Falstaff, 1893). |
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