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Pietro Mascagni A Bio-Bibliography

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Roger Flury

Book Code: GR9662

ISBN: 0-313-29662-6

ISBN-13: 978-0-313-29662-8

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440 pages, photo

Greenwood Press

Publication: 12/30/2000

List Price: $131.95 (UK Sterling Price: £75.00)

Availability: In Stock

Media Type: Hardcover

Trim Size: 6 1/8 x 9 1/4

Subjects:

The Arts » Music (General)
The Arts » Opera

Series Title: Bio-Bibliographies in Music

Series Number: 82

Awards:

2002 ARSC Award for Excellence in Historical Sound Research Certificate of Merit in the Field of Recorded Classical Music

Reviews:

...Highly recommended.
—The Opera Journal June 2002
...excellent and most valuable volume.
—The Record Collector Jan/Feb 2002
...this work will remain an enduring gold mine of information for all researchers digging into the life and music of Pietro Mascagni.
—The Opera Quarterly Winter 2002
Given the importance of the subject and Flury's detailed scholarship, this title,...is a necessary addition to music libraries...
—Catholic Library World
...easily the best piece of English-language writing its subject has inspired, and which also--lest that should appear thin praise--transcends most if not all of recent Italian-language Mascagni scholarship....a comprehensive tour de force.
—The New Criterion
...a must have for anyone interested in Mascagni and for record collectors.
—FOSOLT online

Description: Bringing together a vast amount of information on Pietro Mascagni and his works, this volume in the Greenwood Press series Bio-Bibliographies in Music includes a catalogue of the composer's works and performances, bibliography, discography, and brief biographical sketch. Mascagni is best known for Cavalleria Rusticana, but he wrote fifteen other stage works and over 100 other compositions, including sacred music, songs and film scores. Overshadowed by his contemporary Puccini and tainted by association with the fascist regime of Mussolini, Mascagni is both a famous and neglected opera composer. This volume charts the decline in performances of Mascagni's operas other than Cavalleria Rusticana and reveals a growing interest in and changing attitude toward the composer. The discography includes more than 2,500 recordings, and the annotated bibliography includes 361 titles. This research tool will appeal to Mascagni and to opera scholars. Each section is cross-referenced throughout. An appendix includes a chronology of Mascagni's conducting career.

Table of Contents:

Preface
Abbreviations
Biography
Works, including synopses, edition, performances, operas, and ballets staged in tandem, films of operas, works on the same subject
Bibliography
Discography
Works Consulted
Appendix:A Mascagni Conducting Chronology
Index of Compositions
General Index

LC Card Number: 00-061036

LCC Class: ML134

Dewey Class: 782


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