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Leoncavallo
Life and Works
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2007
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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, Zazà, Maïa, Zingari, La bohème, 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 Author Konrad Dryden has amassed material from hundreds of unpublished letters and photographs, creating the most complete portrait of the composer to date.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 Giosuè Carducci, and from his sojourn in France as a café-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 Plácido 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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Copyright year
2007
ISBN-Print
978-0-8108-5873-2
ISBN-Online
978-1-4617-1665-5
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
351
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Table of Contents No access
Foreword No access
Foreword No access
Acknowledgments No access
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Introduction No access
1. 1857-1877 No access
2. 1878-1888 No access
3. 1889-1892 No access
4. 1893-1894 No access
5. 1895-1897 No access
6. 1898-1905 No access
7. 1906-1911 No access
8. 1912-1915 No access
9. 1916-1919 No access
10. La Nuit De Mai No access
11. Chatterton No access
12. I Medici No access
13. Pagliacci No access
14. Séraphitus-Séraphita No access
15. La Bohème No access
16. Zazà No access
17. Der Roland Von Berlin No access
18. Maïa No access
19. Malbruk No access
20. Gli Zingari No access
21. Mimì Pinson No access
22. La Reginetta Delle Rose No access
23. Are you there? No access
24. La Candidata No access
25. Mameli No access
26. Prestami Tua Moglie No access
27. A chi La Giarrettiera? No access
28. Edipo Re No access
29. Pierrot Au Cinéma No access
30. La Maschera Nuda No access
31. It Prima Bacio No access
Appendix: The Leoncavallo Opus No access Pages 321 - 331
Bibliography No access Pages 332 - 338
Index No access Pages 339 - 350
About the Author No access Pages 351 - 351
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