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Gian Carlo Menotti dies at 95 in Monaco

Friday, February 2, 2007 - 10:22
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Gian Carlo Menotti

The Italian composer Gian Carlo Menotti died yesterday in Monaco. He was 95 years old. Menotti spent much of his life in the United States and saw himself as an American composer, but never gave up his Italian citizenship.

He was popular as a composer of operas — he wrote his first one before he was 11 years old — but he was also criticised that his music was not very adventurous. On two occasions he won the Pullitzer Prize.

Menotti has one son, Francis, whom he adopted after he met him in the 1970s.

[source: www.nytimes.com]

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