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Ruggero Leoncavallo

Ruggero Leoncavallo
Ruggero Leoncavallo, Italian composer (d. 1919)

Ruggero Leoncavallo was an Italian opera composer and librettist. Although he produced numerous operas and songs throughout his career it is his opera Pagliacci (1892) that remained his lasting contribution, despite attempts to escape the shadow of his greatest success.

23 April 1857

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