Pasquale Bona, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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composer from Italy
Date of Birth: 03-Nov-1808
Place of Birth: Cerignola, Apulia, Italy
Date of Death: 02-Dec-1878
Profession: composer, music theorist
Zodiac Sign: Scorpio 
About Pasquale Bona
- Pasquale Bona (Cerignola, November 3, 1808 – Milan, December 2, 1878) was an Italian composer.
- He studied music in Palermo.
- He composed a number of operas, including one based on the Schiller play that would later inspire Giuseppe Verdi's Don Carlos.
- Bona later taught at the Conservatory in Milan, where he counted among his pupils Amilcare Ponchielli, Arrigo Boito, Franco Faccio and Alfredo Catalani; he was also friends with Alessandro Manzoni.
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