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Arditi
Arditi, Luigi, a musician and composer, born in Italy 1822, educated at the Conservatoire of Milan. In 1839 he appeared as a violinist, and in 1841 he produced an opera I Briganti with fair success. In 1857 he came to London, and for twenty years was conductor at Her Majesty's Theatre.