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| Giordano, Umberto |
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( mb r´t j rdä´n ) (KEY) , 18671948, Italian operatic composer. His most famous work is the richly melodic Andrea Chénier (1896). Fedora (1898) and Madame Sans-Gêne (1915) are also well known. |
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