Stefano Gobatti

Stefano Gobatti (Bergantino, 5 July 1852 – Bologna, 17 December 1913) was an Italian opera composer.

He passionately studied music and immediately had results, and was taught under Giuseppe Busi and Lauro Rossi.

At just eighteen, he composed the opera I goti which was staged on 30 November 1873 at the Teatro Comunale di Bologna.

Under pressure from music publishers and their purely economic interests, his later works such as Luce (1875) and Cordelia (1881), were inevitably marked by conflicting adversity.

Gobatti, disappointed and embittered, increasingly sought refuge in a Franciscan convent in the hills of Bologna, and lived there as a monk in extreme poverty.