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13 Mendicant friar, traveller, teacher, and composer Giuseppe Spiteri Fremond Timeline Fame Early life and studies Traveller Monastic vocation Teacher and performer Composer Death APPENDIX: The Grand Mass, mass movements and Spiteri Fremond’s ‘modus operandi’ ADDENDA - Discography
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14 Achievements and unfulfilled dreams of a father Giuseppe Vella (1827-1912) and his three coadjutor sons Timeline Educational background Music teacher Metropolitan ‘maestro di cappella’ Retirement and death His coadjudicator sons APPENDIX: The piano in the Holy Week liturgy ADDENDA - Discography
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15 In search of fame and fortune Francesco Schira (1809-1883) and other sundry travellers Timelines Giuseppe Malfiggiani Giuseppe E. Bonavia Emanuele Galea In Malta In Odessa In the Balkans and, lastly, in St. Petersburg Alessandro Curmi Studies and friendships in Naples Work in Naples and Malta Travels to Paris and London Resident composer for Covent Garden
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