Informationen zu "Pietro Mascagni Arr: David Heyes Intermezzo Double Bass Octet"
Verlag: Recital Music
Verlagsnummer: RM1076
EAN: 9990093814558
Beschreibung
Pietro Mascagni (1863-1945) was an Italian composer primarily known for his
15 operas. He was successful during his lifetime, as both composer and
conductor, and is primarily remembered today by his one-act operatic
masterpiece 'Cavalleria Rusticana', composed in 1890. 'In July 1888 the
Milanese music publisher Edoardo Sonzogno announced a competition open to all
young Italian composers who had not yet had an opera performed on stage. They
were invited to submit a one-act opera which would be judged by a jury of
five prominent Italian critics and composers. The best three would be staged
in Rome at Sonzogno's expense. Mascagni heard about the competition only two
months before the closing date and asked his friend Giovanni
Targioni-Tozzetti, a poet and professor of literature at the Italian Royal
Naval Academy in Livorno, to provide a libretto. The opera was finally
submitted on the last day that entries would be accepted. In all, 73 operas
were submitted, and on 5 March 1890, the judges selected the final three:
Niccola Spinelli's Labilia, Vincenzo Ferroni's Rudello, and Mascagni's
Cavalleria Rusticana.' The opera is now often partnered with Leoncavallo's
one-act opera 'I Pagliacci' and the instrumental Intermezzo has created a
life of its own and has been arranged for many different instrumental
ensembles. Available as a printed edition or PDF file (please contact
doublebass@tiscali.co.uk) and a new edition for double bass quartet will be
published shortly.
