MICHAEL COSTA (CONDUCTOR) -

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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Sir Michael Andrew Angus Costa (14 February 1808 - 29 April 1884) was an Italian-born conductor and composer who achieved success in England. He was born in Naples as Michaele Andrea Agniello Costa, to a family, according to some, of Sephardic stock. He studied in Naples with his father, at the Real Collegio di Musica, and later with Zingarelli. In his youth, as throughout his life, he wrote a great quantity of music, including operas, symphonies and cantatas, all of which has long since passed into oblivion. In 1829 he visited Birmingham to conduct Zingarelli's Cantata Sacra, a setting of some verses from Isaiah ch. xii. However, the festival committee would not allow him to conduct and instead he appeared (unsuccessfully) as a tenor soloist. Nonetheless he decided to settle in England....