Unless you're preparing questions specifically for Kevin Ashman, you really should give some other clue to this.
Niccolo Paganini lived from 1782 to 1840; Gioachino Rossini lived from 1792 to 1868; Gaetano Donizetti lived from 1797 to 1848; Vincenzo Bellini lived from 1801 to 1835; Giacomo Puccini lived from 1858 to 1924. These are just five of over 200 19th-century Italian composers listed by Wikipedia.
Giuseppe Verdi was almost exclusively a composer of operas. His best-known works include Nabucco (1840), Macbeth (1847), Rigoletto (1851), Il Trovatore (1853), La Traviata (1853), Simon Boccanegra (1857), Un Ballo in Maschera (A Masked Ball, 1859), La Forza del Destino (The Force of Destiny, 1862), Aida (1871), Otello (1887) and Falstaff (1893).
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