Biography
Amilcare Ponchielli was born in 1834 in Paderno Fasolaro and is best known for his opera La Gioconda (1876), which contains with the famous Dance of the Hours one of the most popular ballet pieces in opera history. As professor at the Milan Conservatory he taught Mascagni and Puccini. Ponchielli combined the tradition of Verdi with new dramatic impulses. He died in 1886 in Milan.
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