
Composer: Mascagni, Pietro
Arranger: David Heyes
Instrumentation: Double Bass Octet
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| Product Code: | RMD1158 |
| Publishers Number: | RMD1158 |
| Language: | English |
| Condition: | New |
Mascagni’s early life was marked by his musical studies with Alfredo Soffredini at the Instituto Musicale di Livorno, where he began composing at a young age1. His career took off after the premiere of his first cantata, “In Filanda,” and his subsequent meeting with notable musicians like Arrigo Boito and Amilcare Ponchielli in Milan.
Throughout his career, Mascagni wrote fifteen operas, an operetta, several orchestral and vocal works, as well as songs and piano music. His works, such as L’amico Fritz and Iris, have remained in the repertoire in Europe, especially Italy, since their premieres. Mascagni enjoyed immense success during his lifetime, both as a composer and conductor of his own and other people’s music, and he created a variety of styles in his operas.
Mascagni’s legacy is not limited to Cavalleria Rusticana; his contributions to the operatic genre continue to be performed and appreciated for their emotional depth and musical innovation.
The orchestral Intermezzo is heard between the two scenes of Cavalleria Rusticana’s single act, and evokes the Easter day religious spirit of the opera’s setting.…
Pietro Mascagni (1863-1945) was an Italian composer and is known for writing 15 operas. He was successful during his lifetime, as both composer and conductor, and is remembered today for 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 developed a life of its own and has been arranged for many different instrumental ensembles. The music is lyrical and dramatic, emphasising the sonorous qualities of the Double Bass, Octet, and would be ideal for any audience or occasion.
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