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ISBN10: 0810858800, ISBN13: 9780810858800, [publisher: Scarecrow Press, Lanham, MD] Hardcover Hardcover. Leoncavallo: Life and Works is the first fully documented biography of the beloved and popular composer Ruggiero Leoncavallo (1857-1919), whose credits include Pagliacci and the operatic works Chatterton, Der Roland von Berlin, Zaza, Maia, Zingari, La boheme, and the incomplete trilogy Crepusculum. Author Konrad Dryden has amassed material from hundreds of unpublished letters and photographs, creating the most complete portrait of the composer to date. This book examines various facets of Leoncavallo's history: from his youth as the son of the Naples' judge who presided over the murder trial on which Pagliacci was based to his studies with the poet Giosue Carducci, and from his sojourn in France as a cafe-chantant pianist to his appointment in Egypt as music instructor to the Khedive. Careful documentation and plot synopses of Leoncavallo's numerous works are provided and his two U.S. tours are discussed. The biography also sheds new light on Leoncavallo's colleagues and contemporaries, including composers Mahler, Massenet, Puccini, Verdi, and Mascagni; singers Caruso, Ruffo, Tetrazzini, and Sanderson; and historical personalities like Toscanini, Hugo, Carducci, Wilhelm II, and Queen Victoria. A foreword by Placido Domingo, a photo spread featuring more than 25 photos, and an appendix offering the complete list of the composer's opus add ...
Lanham, MD The Scarecrow Press 2007 Hardcover Very Good+ in Near fine jacket Black cloth boards in dust jacket, octavo, 351pp., illustrated in b&w. Book has mild shelfwear to boards and spine, binding tight, previous owner's small sticker to front flyleaf, otherwise text clean bright and unmarked. DJ has hint of rubbing.
Lanham, MD: The Scarecrow Press, Date: 2007. Hardcover. Very Good+/Near fine. Black cloth boards in dust jacket, octavo, 351pp., illustrated in b&w. Book has mild shelfwear to boards and spine, binding tight, previous owner's small sticker to front flyleaf, otherwise text clean bright and unmarked. DJ has hint of rubbing. 2007. The Scarecrow Press ISBN 0810858800 9780810858800 [US]
ISBN10: 0810858800, ISBN13: 9780810858800, [publisher: Scarecrow Press] Hardcover This is the first fully documented biography of the Italian composer Ruggiero Leoncavallo (1857-1919), the beloved and popular composer of the opera Pagliacci. Num Pages: 384 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: AVGC9; AVH; BGF. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 237 x 164 x 29. Weight in Grams: 726. . 2007. Hardback. . . . . [Galway, GY, Ireland] [Publication Year: 2007]
ISBN10: 0810858800, ISBN13: 9780810858800, [publisher: Scarecrow Press] Hardcover This is the first fully documented biography of the Italian composer Ruggiero Leoncavallo (1857-1919), the beloved and popular composer of the opera Pagliacci. Num Pages: 384 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: AVGC9; AVH; BGF. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 237 x 164 x 29. Weight in Grams: 726. . 2007. Hardback. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland. [Olney, MD, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 2007]
Scarecrow Press 2007 Hard cover New This is the first fully documented biography of the Italian composer Ruggiero Leoncavallo (1857-1919), the beloved and popular composer of the opera Pagliacci. Num Pages: 384 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: AVGC9; AVH; BGF. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 237 x 164 x 29. Weight in Grams: 726. 2007. Hardback.....We ship daily from our Bookshop.
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