Complex sentence: Gaeta composed and wrote the lyrics to more than 2,000 works in Italian and Neapolitan, perhaps most notably in 1918 "La leggenda del Piave", which at the birth of the Italian Republic was a candidate for the Italian national anthem.
Split into simpler sentences: Gaeta composed and wrote the lyrics to more than 2,000 works in Italian and Neapolitan. In 1918, he wrote "La leggenda del Piave", which at the birth of the Italian Republic was a candidate for the Italian national anthem.