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Nicolo Gabrielli, count, an Italian composer, born in Naples in 1815. He was for 14 years director of the music of ballets in the San Carlo theatre at Naples, and subsequently removed to Paris. He has produced ballets for the Grand Opera, including Gemma (1854), Lea elfes (1856), and L'Etoile de Messine (1861); and a comic opera of his was performed at the Opera Comique in 1859.
 
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