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.