Leoncavallo
Subtitle: life and works
By: Konrad Dryden
Publisher: Scarecrow Press
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Lanham, Md
Language: eng
Number of pages: 351
ISBN-13: 9780810858800; 9780810858732
Subjects: Leoncavallo, Ruggiero, -- 1858-1919; Composers -- Italy -- Biography
Genres: Biography
Description: "Leoncavallo: Life and Works is the first fully documented biography of Ruggiero Leoncavallo (1857-1919), the beloved and popular composer of Pagliacci, whose operatic works also include Chatterton, Der Roland von Berlin, Zaza, Maia, Zingari, La boheme, and the incomplete trilogy Crepusculum. Konrad Dryden has amassed material from hundreds of unpublished letters and photographs, creating the most complete portrait of the composer to date."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 332-337) and index
Table of contents: title: Part 1 : Biography; title: 1857-1877; title: 1878-1888; title: 1889-1892; title: 1893-1894; title: 1895-1897; title: 1898-1905; title: 1906-1911; title: 1912-1915; title: 1916-1919; title: Part 2 : works; title: La nuit de mai; title: Chatterton; title: I Medici; title: Pagliacci; title: Séraphitus-séraphita; title: La bohème; title: Zazà; title: Der roland von Berlin; title: Maïa; title: Malbruk; title: Gli zingari; title: Mimì Pinson; title: La reginetta delle rose; title: Are you there?; title: La candidata; title: Mameli; title: Prestami tua moglie; title: A chi la giarrettiera?; title: Edipo re; title: Pierrot au cinéma; title: La maschera nuda; title: Il primo bacio; title: Appendix : the Leoncavallo opus