Who was a lead composer for the "bel canto" opera style, Gustave Charpentier or Gaetano Donizetti?
Gustave Charpentier Gustave Charpentier (] ; 25 June 1860 – 18 February 1956) was a French composer, best known for his opera "Louise".
Gaetano Martinelli Gaetano Martinelli (? – 1802) was an Italian librettist active in the court theatres of Charles Eugene, Duke of Württemberg from 1766 to 1769 and in Lisbon as the court poet to Joseph I of Portugal and his daughter Maria I from 1769 until his death in 1802. He was one of a group of reforming Italian librettists which also included Calzabigi, Verazi, and Migliavacca, who moved away from the traditional Metastasian plot structures that had dominated opera during the first half of the 18th century. The majority of his early libretti were for comic ("opera buffa") or semi-comic ("dramma giocoso") operas.