About Teodoro Cottrau
Lived 1827 – 1879 (aged 51). Teodoro Cottrau was an Italian composer, poet, writer, journalist, lyricist and songwriter.
Teodoro Cottrau (; 7 December 1827 – 30 March 1879) was an Italian composer, lyricist, publisher, journalist and politician. He specialised in Neapolitan folk songs.
The son of French composer and musicologist Guillaume Louis Cottrau, he is best known for his arrangement of "Santa Lucia", published in 1850 and recorded among others by Enrico Caruso and Elvis Presley.
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Italian composer, poet and writer (1827–1879)
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Teodoro Cottrau was born on 27 November 1827 in Naples.
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Teodoro Cottrau died on 30 March 1879 in Naples.
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Teodoro Cottrau was a composer, poet, writer, journalist, lyricist and songwriter.
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Teodoro Cottrau was Italian.
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