Gaetano Donizetti: the first real European musician. The poor birth "underground village in Channel, one of the poorest villages of the ancient city of Bergamo and the glorious training with Johann Simon Mayr are the first act of a life that has brought the musician Bergamo in major European capitals of music Venice, Naples, Vienna, Paris. In Bergamo, however, remains the heart of the Master, places and emotions. In the Upper Town, in a small medieval village, the house where Donizetti was bo