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Leoncavallo - Life and Works (Paperback)
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Leoncavallo - Life and Works (Paperback)
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Leoncavallo: Life and Works is the first fully documented biography
of the beloved and popular composer Ruggiero Leoncavallo
(1857-1919), whose credits include Pagliacci and the operatic works
Chatterton, Der Roland von Berlin, Zaza, Maia, Zingari, La boheme,
and the incomplete trilogy Crepusculum. Author Konrad Dryden has
amassed material from hundreds of unpublished letters and
photographs, creating the most complete portrait of the composer to
date. This book examines various facets of Leoncavallo's history:
from his youth as the son of the Naples' judge who presided over
the murder trial on which Pagliacci was based to his studies with
the poet Giosue Carducci, and from his sojourn in France as a
cafe-chantant pianist to his appointment in Egypt as music
instructor to the Khedive. Careful documentation and plot synopses
of Leoncavallo's numerous works are provided and his two U.S. tours
are discussed. The biography also sheds new light on Leoncavallo's
colleagues and contemporaries, including composers Mahler,
Massenet, Puccini, Verdi, and Mascagni; singers Caruso, Ruffo,
Tetrazzini, and Sanderson; and historical personalities like
Toscanini, Hugo, Carducci, Wilhelm II, and Queen Victoria. A
foreword by Placido Domingo, a photo spread featuring more than 25
photos, and an appendix offering the complete list of the
composer's opus add to the bibliography and index, making this the
ultimate reference on this important figure in music and opera
history.
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