Placido Mandanici [SEP] place of death
Placido Mandanici
Placido Mandanici (3 July 1799, Barcellona Pozzo di Gotto – 6 June 1852, Genoa) was an Italian composer. He is best known for his operas. He graduated from the Music Lyceum in Palermo (1820), and then studied at Naples with Pietro Raimondi. In 1829 his first opera, "L'isola disabitata", premiered in Naples.
From 1834-1848 he worked in Milan as an opera and ballet composer and taught at the Milan Conservatory. He was a friend of Gaetano Donizetti and
administrative merger of Barcellona and Pozzo di Gotto in 1836, the doubling of the population required a new larger temple. The project was accelerated by the disastrous 1908 Messina earthquake that damaged the old Cathedral of St. Sebastian and made it unusable. The old cathedral, dating from 1606, would have also prevented the construction of the Via Roma, the natural access to the railway station. It formed, together with the adjacent "Church of Agonizing", the Placido Mandanici Theatre (destroyed by fire in 1967) and the Monte di