The Italian and German opera was the most influential of the nineteenth century. The Italian opera was grounded in the traditional and commercialism. The German opera was grounded in modernizations.
The nineteenth –century Italian opera began in the early nineteenth century.
Italian opera is the highest manifestation of art of song. Its primary purpose is to delight and move the hearer with music that is tuneful unsentimental spontaneous an in every sense word popular. This opera style is called Bel canto. Which means beautiful song and by extension beautiful voice. (Greenberg, 2014) There were vital three composer of the Bel canto which is the following Gaetano Donizetti he was born in the year of (1797) and died in (1848). He composed seventy operas, one hundred songs as well as various oratorios, cantata and chamber works.
Vincenzo Bellini was born in (1801) and died in (1835) he was the most modest of the three. “He only composes ten sierra opera compared to Donizetti”. The first one is called Adelson e Salvini in (1825). (Greenberg, 2014)

Gioacchino Rossini was born (1792) and died in (1868). He wrote his first his first opera when he was 18 years old. His most famous opera is The Barber of Seville. He suffered from some type of mental disease other than depression, had bouts of gonorrhea and was a hypochondriac. He was known to have been the most quotable composer of all times. The last opera he wrote was William Tell in (1829) that was at age thirty-seven and he never wrote another opera. He did write music after that but it was an only religious songs in small pieces. (Greenberg, 2014).
In (1869) there were several other composers just to name a few Zecchini, Alberto, Grondona, Libani, Vezzossi and Ricci they premier two years prior to Verdi opera Aida. It is like those other composer never did exist.
Giuseppe Verdi was born in (1813) and died in (1901) he is the history of Italian opera.
He composed twenty – six opera and his first opera was completed at the age of twenty-six which was Oberto in the year of (1839) while his last opera Falstaff in the year of (1893) when he was eighty years old. As man he was direct and to the point. He changed the nature and content of Italian opera he was not a purposeful innovator, reformer, or revolutionary. (Greenberg, 2014)
He was married and in the span of twenty-two months he had the deaths of his two children and wife.
He had four charactertics of Verdi mature operas human beings, human emotions and relationship. The second are de-emphasized almost the old division of aria. The orchestral as an entity as a character unto itself and number four was descent libretti. Aida was written to celebrate the opening of the Suez Canal in the year of (1871).
According to Donald J. Gout:
The rise of nationalism in music one the outstanding features of the nineteenth is nowhere more striking than the rapid growth of the Romantic Opera in Germany. Before (1820) German opera was known outside its own country only through [Mozart’s] this is known as the magic flute and a few [other] as singspiels. (Greenberg, 2014)
The first German opera was “Heinrich Schultz Dafne in (1627 this opera was first perform in Targo it was not traditional. It was strictly and imitation”. (Greenberg, 2014) The watershed event was the seven year war and in America it is known as the French and Indian war. Winton Churchill called it the first real war. This war took place between (1756 and 1763).
Singspiel “A plays with singing a partly sung, spoken a German theatrical genre that has its roots in popular culture. In England this would be called a Ballard opera and the United States it would be called a musical”. (Greenberg, 2014)
Carl Maria von Weber of (1786) Del freischultz (1821) this translate to the free shooter but in English speaking worlds it is known as the Magic Bullets. This was known as the breakaway piece.
What Beethoven was in the first half of the nineteen century so was Richard Wagner who born in (1813) and died in (1883) in the second half of the same century. He is the subject of more biography than any other than Jesus and Napoleon. (Greenberg, 2014)
At age of fifteen he decided to become a composer in which he knew nothing about but he became the most amazing adolescent prodigy in the history of Western music within five years. At the age of twenty he had a compositional technique equaled by few and second to no one. (Greenberg, 2014)
He is famous for both his epic operas, including the four-part, 18-hour Ring Cycle, as well as for his anti-Semitic writings, which, posthumously, made him a favorite of Adolf Hitler. There is evidence that Wagner's music was played at the Dachau concentration camp to "re-educate" the prisoners. Wagner (2014)

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