Jacopo Foroni before arriving in Sweden in 1849 to work for Vincenzo Galli's opera company at the Mindre teatern. There, he gave the Swedish premieres of works by Bellini and Donizetti as well as the young Verdi. He conducted the first music by Wagner to be heard in Sweden, the Tannhäuser overture, in 1856. He died during a cholera epidemic in 1858. 3. Cesare Farinelli, Ylenia Fornari, "1858-2008, 150° Anniversario della morte di Jacopo Foroni"Valeggio sul Mincio, Verona. Jacopo Foroni Jacopo Foroni (26 July 1825 — Stockholm, 8 September 1858) was an Italian opera composer and conductor who spent most of his
Jacopo da Bologna Jacopo da Bologna Jacopo da Bologna (fl. 1340 – c. 1386) was an Italian composer of the Trecento, the period sometimes known as the "Italian ars nova". He was one of the first composers of this group, making him a contemporary of Gherardello da Firenze and Giovanni da Firenze. He concentrated mainly on madrigals, including both canonic (caccia-madrigal) and non-canonic types, but also composed a single example each of a caccia, lauda-ballata, and motet (; ). His setting of "Non al suo amante", written about 1350, is the only known contemporaneous setting of Petrarch's poetry (; ). Jacopo's ideal was