Gasparo Spontini (1774-1851). Composer.

Italian composer and conductor whose early operas, notably his masterpiece, La vestale (1807), represent the spirit of the Napoleonic era and form an operatic bridge between the works of Christoph Gluck and Richard Wagner.

Michel 591, Sassone 426, 434, AFA 523

Date of issue: 1937

Face value: 10 c.

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