Esposito, Michele (1855-1929)

Italian pianist and composer. He studied at the Naples Conservatory, lived in Paris 1878-82, and was then appointed professor of piano at Dublin, where in 1899 he established the Dublin Orchestral Society, which he conducted.

Works operetta The Postbag (1902); incidental music for Douglas Hyde's The Tinker and the Fairy (1910); cantata Deirdre; Irish Symphony, overture to Shakespeare's Othello; two string quartets; sonatas for violin and piano and cello and piano.