Angelo Mariani

(b Ravenna, 11 Oct 1821; d Genoa, 13 June 1873). Italian conductor and composer. After his début as an instrumental composer in 1843 he turned to conducting opera, having his first great success with Verdi's I due Foscari (Milan,1846) and Nabucco (1847). From 1852 he worked mainly in Genoa at the Teatro Carlo Felice, and in Bologna at the Teatro Comunale, where he gave many successful Wagner and Verdi performances, notably the Don Carlo of1867. Though his skill and dedication to each opera as ‘theatre’ drew praise from Verdi, Meyerbeer, Rossini and Wagner, he became estranged from Verdi after 1869.

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Advertising bill for the wine Mariani, lithograph of Jules Cheret, 1894

Angelo Mariani or Ange-François Mariani (1838 Pero-Casevecchie, Haute-Corse - 1914) was a French chemist, originally from the island of Corsica. He is most well known as the inventor of the first cocawine, Vin Mariani in 1863. His contribution was to introduce the coca leaf indirectly to the general public. Mariani imported tons of coca leaves and used an extract from them in many products. It was Mariani's coca wine, though, that made him rich and famous. Mariani was also awarded with a medal of appreciation from the Pope. This tonic wine is deemed as the Coca Cola ancestor. Indeed the original composition of the soft drink from Atlanta is clearly inspired from the French cocawine.^[1]

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1. ^ "Drug that spans the ages: The history of cocaine". The Independent. http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/this-britain/drug-that-spans-the-ages-the-history-of-cocaine-468286.html. Retrieved on 2008-09-19. 

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