The full, tragic story of Puccini's great rival, now available in English for the first time. Born in Lucca four years before Puccini, Alfredo Catalani (1854-93) was the main hope of Italian opera in the 1880s. Alarming conservative critics with the sophisticated modernism of his music, he nonetheless won steadily increasing popularity with the opera-going public. But Catalani's entire adult life was a grim and increasingly hopeless battle with tuberculosis; the year after his greatest triumph with La Wally (1892), he died at just 39, leaving the future of Italian opera to other men, all of whom had been influenced by his innovations. This is the story of the man and his music, as told by friends and contemporaries. Revised 2nd edition.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Durrant Publishing
ISBN-13
9781905946297
eBay Product ID (ePID)
109224975
Product Key Features
Book Title
Alfredo Catalani: Composer of Lucca
Author
Giovanni Battista Nappi, Domenico Luigi Pardini, Raffaello Barbiera
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
Music, History
Publication Year
2011
Type
Textbook
Genre
Biographies & True Stories
Number of Pages
172 Pages
Dimensions
Item Height
216mm
Item Width
140mm
Item Weight
369g
Additional Product Features
Title_Author
Raffaello Barbiera, Giovanni Battista Nappi, Domenico Luigi Pardini
Editor
David Chandler
Country/Region of Manufacture
United Kingdom
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