page_title: Franco Faccio
hierarchical_section_title: Franco Faccio
caption_attribution_description: English: Franco Faccio when composing 'Amleto'
context_page_description: Francesco Antonio Faccio was an Italian composer and conductor. Born in Verona, he studied music at the Milan Conservatory from 1855 where he was a pupil of Stefano Ronchetti-Monteviti and, as scholar William Ashbrook notes, "where he struck up a lifelong friendship with Arrigo Boito, two years his junior" and with whom he was to collaborate in many ways.
  Initially, he became known as the composer of two operas and, in his years as music director of the Teatro alla Scala opera house, Faccio became known as a conductor of Verdi's music at La Scala, in different parts of Italy, and abroad.
context_section_description: Francesco (Franco) Antonio Faccio (8 March 1840, in Verona – 21 July 1891, in Monza) was an Italian composer and conductor. Born in Verona, he studied music at the Milan Conservatory from 1855 where he was a pupil of Stefano Ronchetti-Monteviti and, as scholar William Ashbrook notes, "where he struck up a lifelong friendship with Arrigo Boito, two years his junior" and with whom he was to collaborate in many ways.
  Initially, he became known as the composer of two operas and, in his years (1871–1889) as music director of the Teatro alla Scala opera house, Faccio became known as a conductor of Verdi's music  at La Scala, in different parts of Italy, and abroad.
caption: Franco Faccio at the time of composing Amleto
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