Bellini, Vincenzo

Italian operatic composer

1801 - Born on the 3rd of November in Catania, Sicily, Italy.

1819 - Bellini left provincial Catania to study at the conservatory in Naples.

1822 - He was in the class of the director Nicolò Zingarelli.

1827 - He composed operas "Il Pirata".

1830 - Composed "I Capuleti ed i Montecchi".

1831 - Composed "Norma" and "La Sonnambula", "I puritani".

1835 - Bellini died on 23rd of September in Puteaux, near Paris of acute inflammation of the intestine.