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ARRIGO See also: Italian poet and musical composer, was See also: born at See also: Padua on the 24th of See also: February 1842
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He studied See also: music at the Milan Conservatoire, but evenin those early days he devoted as much of his See also: time to literature as to music, forecasting the divided allegiance which was to be the chief characteristic of his See also: life's See also: history
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While at the Conservatoire he wrote and composed, in collaboration with Franco Faccio, a cantata, Le Sorelle d'Italia, which was performed with success
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On completing his studies See also: Boito travelled for some years, and after his return to See also: Italy settled down in Milan, dividing his time between journalism and music
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In 1866 he fought under See also: Garibaldi, and in 1868 conducted the first performance of his See also: opera Mefistofele at the Scala theatre, Milan
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The See also: work failed completely, and was withdrawn after a second performance
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It was revived in 1875 at Bologna in a much altered and abbreviated See also: form, when its success was beyond question
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It was performed in See also: London in 188o with success, but in spite of frequent revivals has never succeeded in firmly establishing itself in popular favour
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Boito treated the See also: Faust See also: legend in a spirit far more nearly akin to the conception of Goethe than is found in Gounod's Faust, but, in spite of many isolated beauties, his opera lacks cohesion and dramatic See also: interest
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His energies were afterwards chiefly devoted to the composition of libretti, of which the See also: principal are Otello and Falstaff, set to music by Verdi; La Gioconda, set by See also: Ponchielli; Amleto, set by Faccio; and Ero e See also: Leandre, set by See also: Bottesini and Mancinelli
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These See also: works display a rare knowledge of the requirements of dramatic See also: poetry, together with uncommon See also: literary value
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Boito also published a See also: book of poems and a novel, L'Alfier Mena The degree of See also: doctor of music was conferred upon him in 1893 by the university of Cambridge
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