Ferruccio Busoni wrote a sonatina for piano based on this composer's final opera.
Ferruccio Busoni wrote a sonatina for piano based on this composer's final opera. Trained by composer Jacques Halévy at the Paris Conservatory, he used Alfred de Musset's poem "Namouna" for the basis of his opera Djamileh. In another of his operas, Zurga sings the duet "Au fond du temple saint" with Nadir after being elected chief of a group of fishermen in Ceylon. His most famous work would later influence the realistic verismo school of dramatic opera, and includes a "seguidilla" in which the title character seduces a young corporal, as well as the Toréador Song and Habanera. FTP, name this French composer of The Pearl Fishers best known for an opera about a Spanish gypsy, Carmen.
Ferruccio Busoni wrote a sonatina for piano based on this composer's final opera.
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