Stanislao Mattei was an Italian

Italy

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 composer

Composer

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, musicologist, and teacher. A pupil of Giovanni Battista Martini

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, Mattei's music bares a close resemblance to his style of composition. He succeeded Martini in the post of maestro di cappella at the San Petronio Basilica

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 in 1784.

Mattei composed over 300 works of sacred music, a body of work which remains largely unpublished. He also composed some secular vocal pieces and symphonies. In 1804 he was appointed as a professor at the Liceo Musicale di Bologna (now the Conservatorio Giovanni Battista Martini), where he had among his pupils Gaetano Donizetti

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, Yevstigney Fomin

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, Angelo Mariani

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, Francesco Morlacchi

Francesco Morlacchi

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, Luigi Felice Rossi

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, Gioachino Rossini, Giovanni Tadolini

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, and Christian Theodor Weinlig

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