Giuseppe Gazzaniga

Giuseppe Gazzaniga (5 October 1743 – 1 February 1818) was a member of the Neapolitan school of opera composers.

He eventually convinced his father to allow him to pursue a career in music and began studies first in Venice and then at the Conservatorio di Sant'Onofrio a Porta Capuana in Naples.

He would spend the next several decades writing mostly operas in Italy with the exception of a few trips to Dresden, Vienna, and Prague.

[2] In 1791, he became musical director of Crema Cathedral in the Lombardy region of northern Italy, where he composed numerous sacred works including several cantatas, oratorios, and masses.

[3] His life and works were the subject of a detailed study by the prominent 19th-century German critic Friedrich Chrysander.