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Who was Amilcare Ponchielli?

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Amilcare Ponchielli was an Italian composer of several very successful operas ...

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Newspaper article from: The Independent - London ...missionary, 1902; Ethel Merman (Zimmerman), singer and actress, 1909. Deaths: Edmund Spenser, poet, 1599; Amilcare Ponchielli, composer, 1886; Clement-Philibert-Leo Delibes, composer, 1891; Arnold Bocklin, painter, 1901; Marshall...
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