Who wrote 'Capriccio Italien' in 1880?
"which means ""charming"" or ""pleasing"". In addition to the above suites, Tchaikovsky made a short sketch for a Suite in 1889 or 1890, which was not subsequently developed. Tchaikovsky himself arranged the suite from the ballet ""The Nutcracker."" He also considered making suites from his two other ballets, ""Swan Lake"" and ""The Sleeping Beauty"". He ended up not doing so, but after his death, others compiled and published suites from these ballets. Like ""Capriccio Italien"", the Serenade for Strings was inspired by Tchaikovsky's time in Italy and shares that work's relaxed buoyancy and melodic richness. The first movement, ""Pezzo in"
"Capriccio (opera) Capriccio, Op. 85, is the final opera by German composer Richard Strauss, subtitled ""A Conversation Piece for Music"". The opera received its premiere performance at the Nationaltheater München on 28 October 1942. Clemens Krauss and Strauss wrote the German libretto. However, the genesis of the libretto came from Stefan Zweig in the 1930s, and Joseph Gregor further developed the idea several years later. Strauss then took on the libretto, but finally recruited Krauss as his collaborator on the opera. Most of the final libretto is by Krauss. The opera originally consisted of a single act lasting close to"
"Arrigo Boito Arrigo Boito (; 24 February 1842 10 June 1918) (whose original name was Enrico Giuseppe Giovanni Boito and who wrote essays under the anagrammatic pseudonym of Tobia Gorrio), was an Italian poet, journalist, novelist, librettist and composer, best known today for his libretti, especially those for Giuseppe Verdi's operas ""Otello"" and ""Falstaff"", and his own opera ""Mefistofele"". Along with Emilio Praga, and his own brother Camillo Boito he is regarded as one of the prominent representatives of the Scapigliatura artistic movement. Born in Padua, the son of Silvestro Boito, an Italian painter of miniatures and his wife, a"
"Notes Sources Arrigo Boito Arrigo Boito (; 24 February 1842 10 June 1918) (whose original name was Enrico Giuseppe Giovanni Boito and who wrote essays under the anagrammatic pseudonym of Tobia Gorrio), was an Italian poet, journalist, novelist, librettist and composer, best known today for his libretti, especially those for Giuseppe Verdi's operas ""Otello"" and ""Falstaff"", and his own opera ""Mefistofele"". Along with Emilio Praga, and his own brother Camillo Boito he is regarded as one of the prominent representatives of the Scapigliatura artistic movement. Born in Padua, the son of Silvestro Boito, an Italian painter of miniatures and his"
"Salvatore Cardillo Salvatore Cardillo (1874–1947) was an Italian-American composer. Born in Naples, he studied piano and composition in Italy before emigrating in 1903 to the United States as a university graduate. His career encompassed songwriting and movie music. He died in New York. Cardillo's richly scored and still popular 1911 romance ""Core 'ngrato"" (""Ungrateful Heart"") — also known by its lyric ""Catarì, Catarì, pecchè me dici sti parole amare"" — was written in America to a text in Neapolitan dialect by Alessandro Sisca; it is in fact the only famous Neapolitan song by an Italian-American immigrant. The song's first exponent"
"Italian premiere, and it was given in New York on 15 June 1893, with Agostino Montegriffo as Canio. Around 1890, when Pietro Mascagni's ""Cavalleria rusticana"" premiered, Leoncavallo was a little-known composer. After seeing Mascagni's success, he decided to write an opera in response: one act composed in the verismo style. Leoncavallo wrote that he based the story of ""Pagliacci"" on an incident from his childhood: a murder in 1865, the victim of which was a Leoncavallo family servant, Gaetano Scavello. The murderer was Gaetano D'Alessandro, with his brother Luigi an accomplice to the crime. The incident resulted from a series"
"Giuseppe Garibaldi's redshirts to fight the Austrian Empire for the annexation of Venice to the newly formed Kingdom of Italy in 1866. Franco Faccio was also responsible for two of the three ""Scapigliatura"" operas: ""I profughi fiamminghi"" (with a libretto by Emilio Praga) and ""Amleto"", set to a text by Boito. It was on the lukewarm premiere of the former in 1863 that Faccio was fêted with a banquet where Boito read his ode ""All'arte italiana"", which famously so offended Giuseppe Verdi that the composer refused to work with him when the publisher Ricordi first suggested a collaboration. The offending"
"Giovanni Boccaccio Giovanni Boccaccio (; ; 16 June 1313 – 21 December 1375) was an Italian writer, poet, correspondent of Petrarch, and an important Renaissance humanist. Boccaccio wrote a number of notable works, including ""The Decameron"" and ""On Famous Women"". He wrote his imaginative literature mostly in the Italian vernacular, as well as other works in Latin, and is particularly noted for his realistic dialogue which differed from that of his contemporaries, medieval writers who usually followed formulaic models for character and plot. The details of Boccaccio's birth are uncertain. He was born in Florence or in a village near"
"of Italian equivalent of Walt Whitman—who committed suicide in 1876 after falling in love with an English teenage girl. Another author who scandalized the country was Lorenzo Stecchetti with his poetry collection ""Postuma"" (1876), which in reality was the work of poet Olindo Guerrini who created the character of the young and doomed poet Stecchetti (based upon Tarchetti) for this specific purpose. Among the Scapigliati painters are Tranquillo Cremona, Daniele Ranzoni and Arnoldo Bocklin, and the best-known sculptor is Giuseppe Grandi. Their style would influence later painters such as Medardo Rosso, Mose' Bianchi and Giuseppe Amisani in the 1920s. The"
"Capriccio Espagnol Capriccio espagnol, Op. 34, is the common Western title for a five movement orchestral suite, based on Spanish folk melodies, composed by the Russian composer Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov in 1887. Rimsky-Korsakov originally intended to write the work for a solo violin with orchestra, but later decided that a purely orchestral work would do better justice to the lively melodies. The Russian title is Каприччио на испанские темы (literally, Capriccio on Spanish Themes). The work has five movements, divided into two parts comprising the first three and the latter two movements respectively.. A complete performance of the ""Capriccio"" takes around"
"Pietro Mascagni Pietro Antonio Stefano Mascagni (; 7 December 1863 – 2 August 1945) was an Italian composer most noted for his operas. His 1890 masterpiece ""Cavalleria Rusticana"" caused one of the greatest sensations in opera history and single-handedly ushered in the ""Verismo"" movement in Italian dramatic music. While it was often held that Mascagni, like Leoncavallo, was a ""one-opera man"" who could never repeat his first success, ""L'amico Fritz"" and ""Iris"" have remained in the repertoire in Europe (especially Italy) since their premieres. Mascagni said that at one point, ""Iris"" was performed in Italy more often than ""Cavalleria"" (cf."
"Scapigliatura Scapigliatura () is the name of an artistic movement that developed in Italy after the Risorgimento period (1815–1871). The movement included poets, writers, musicians, painters and sculptors. The term Scapigliatura is the Italian equivalent of the French ""bohème"" (bohemian), literally meaning ""unkempt"" or ""dishevelled"". The term Scapigliatura was derived from the novel ""La Scapigliatura e il 6 Febbraio"" by Cletto Arrighi, pen-name of Carlo Righetti (1830–1906), who was one of the forerunners of the movement. The main Italian inspiration of the Scapigliati was the writer and journalist Giuseppe Rovani (1818–1874), author of the novel ""Cento Anni"" and the influential"
"for Naples' seminaries for girls by Giuseppe Garibaldi. She married Giovanni Greuther, who died in 1885. The first edition of ""Misteri del chiostro napoletano"" was reprinted six times; it also appeared in English and French translations. She also published two plays ""Un delitto impunito: fatto storico del 1838"" (1866) and ""Un episodio dei misteri del Chiostro Napolitano"" (1883). Caracciolo worked as a journalist and lobbied for women's rights until her death in Naples at the age of 80. Enrichetta Caracciolo Enrichetta Caracciolo (February 17, 1821 – March 17, 1901) was an Italian writer. She is best known for her 1864"
"Giovanni Capurro Giovanni Capurro (February 5, 1859 – January 18, 1920) was an Italian poet, best remembered today as the co-creator, with singer/composer Eduardo Di Capua, of the world famous song, ""'O Sole mio"". Capurro was born in Naples. He made his living as a poet and playwright. He is considered to be among the finest nineteenth-century Italian poets. The actor Viviani gave his first performance in an established theatre, the Teatro Perella in Basso Porto, in ""The Street Urchin"", a sketch by Capurro. In 1898, Giovanni Capurro wrote the words to"" 'O Sole mio"" and asked Eduardo Di Capua"
"Anonimo Gaddiano An anonymous author known as the Anonimo Gaddiano, Anonimo Magliabechiano, or Anonimo Fiorentino (""the anonymous Florentine"") is the author of the Codice Magliabechiano or Magliabechiano, a manuscript with 128 pages of text, probably from the 1530s and 1540s, and now in the Central National Library of Florence (Magliab. XVII, 17). It includes brief biographies and notes on the works of Italian artists, mainly those active in Florence during the Middle Ages. Among several other suggestions, the anonymous author has been suggested to be Bernardo Vecchietti (1514–1590), a politician of the court of Cosimo I. The author clearly had"
"Giosuè Carducci Giosuè Alessandro Giuseppe Carducci (; also Giosue Carducci in later years; 27 July 1835 – 16 February 1907) was an Italian poet, writer, literary critic and teacher. He was very influential and was regarded as the official national poet of modern Italy. In 1906 he became the first Italian to receive the Nobel Prize in Literature ""not only in consideration of his deep learning and critical research, but above all as a tribute to the creative energy, freshness of style, and lyrical force which characterize his poetic masterpieces"". He was born in Valdicastello (part of Pietrasanta), a small"
"incorporated into the music. Notes Sources Pietro Mascagni Pietro Antonio Stefano Mascagni (; 7 December 1863 – 2 August 1945) was an Italian composer most noted for his operas. His 1890 masterpiece ""Cavalleria Rusticana"" caused one of the greatest sensations in opera history and single-handedly ushered in the ""Verismo"" movement in Italian dramatic music. While it was often held that Mascagni, like Leoncavallo, was a ""one-opera man"" who could never repeat his first success, ""L'amico Fritz"" and ""Iris"" have remained in the repertoire in Europe (especially Italy) since their premieres. Mascagni said that at one point, ""Iris"" was performed in"
"Peppino Turco Giuseppe “Peppino” Turco (7 March 1846 – 14 October 1903) was an Italian songwriter. Turco was born in Naples. Initially he was a renowned journalist and poet, collaborating with the satirical newspaper ""Capitan Fracassa"" in Rome and various Neapolitan periodicals. However it is for his verses put to music that he is best known. Turco lived in Rome for much of his life, but frequented the thermal baths at Castellammare di Stabia every summer. In 1880 it was there that he collaborated with Luigi Denza to write the verses for ""Funiculì, Funiculà"". The song became a huge international"
"Fantasia in C major (Haydn) Fantasia in C major, Hob. XVII/4, ""Capriccio"", was written by Joseph Haydn. It is based on the Austrian folk song """" (""The farmer's wife has lost her cat""). In March 1789, he wrote to the publishing company Artaria, saying, ""In a moment of great good humour I have completed a new Capriccio for fortepiano, whose taste, singularity and special construction cannot fail to receive approval from connoisseurs and amateurs alike. In a single movement, rather long, but not particularly difficult."" The fact that Haydn wrote the fantasia ""for connoisseurs and amateurs alike"" was most likely"
"(Anglo-Italian rock singer and poet, not to be confused with the American film-director of commercials) translated Praga, Camerana and some of Tarchetti's poetry into English for the first time. Notes Sources Further reading Scapigliatura Scapigliatura () is the name of an artistic movement that developed in Italy after the Risorgimento period (1815–1871). The movement included poets, writers, musicians, painters and sculptors. The term Scapigliatura is the Italian equivalent of the French ""bohème"" (bohemian), literally meaning ""unkempt"" or ""dishevelled"". The term Scapigliatura was derived from the novel ""La Scapigliatura e il 6 Febbraio"" by Cletto Arrighi, pen-name of Carlo Righetti (1830–1906),"
"newspaper ""Rome"" as a reporter, drama critic, and, late in life, as an administrative employee. Capurro was a devotee of lounges where he sang, played the piano and did amusing imitations. Capurro died in 1920; some sources say in Naples while others say Mexico City. Giovanni Capurro Giovanni Capurro (February 5, 1859 – January 18, 1920) was an Italian poet, best remembered today as the co-creator, with singer/composer Eduardo Di Capua, of the world famous song, ""'O Sole mio"". Capurro was born in Naples. He made his living as a poet and playwright. He is considered to be among the"
"Suso Cecchi d'Amico Suso Cecchi D'Amico (21 July 1914, Rome – 31 July 2010, Rome) was an Italian screenwriter and actress. She won the 1980 David di Donatello Award for lifetime career. She worked with virtually all of the most celebrated post-war Italian film directors, and wrote or co-wrote many award winning films—among them: Cecchi D'Amico wrote the libretto for Nino Rota's opera ""I due timidi"" and collaborated on the script of William Wyler's ""Roman Holiday"". She was a member of the jury at the 1982 Cannes Film Festival. She was awarded the Golden Lion for lifetime achievement at the"
"Suso Cecchi d'Amico Suso Cecchi D'Amico (21 July 1914, Rome – 31 July 2010, Rome) was an Italian screenwriter and actress. She won the 1980 David di Donatello Award for lifetime career. She worked with virtually all of the most celebrated post-war Italian film directors, and wrote or co-wrote many award winning films—among them: Cecchi D'Amico wrote the libretto for Nino Rota's opera ""I due timidi"" and collaborated on the script of William Wyler's ""Roman Holiday"". She was a member of the jury at the 1982 Cannes Film Festival. She was awarded the Golden Lion for lifetime achievement at the"
"Carlo Muccioli Carlo Muccioli (1857 in Rome – 1931 in Rome) was an Italian painter, in watercolors and oils, mainly of genre subjects. At the 1881 Exhibition at Milan del 1881, he sent a half-figure of a woman in modern dress. In 1883 at Rome, he displayed a canvas of the Roman carnival, titled ""Ercoli!.. Eccoli!.."", a ""Portrait of signora A"".., and another Portrait of a Lady. To the Turin Exhibition, he sent a Margherita based on Faust by Goethe. Venice, in 1887, another canvas portante titled: Fiato sprecato, che la critica trovò assai interessante. From 1879 to the last"
"Vittore Carpaccio Vittore Carpaccio (; c. 14651525/1526) was an Italian painter of the Venetian school, who studied under Gentile Bellini. He is best known for a cycle of nine paintings, ""The Legend of Saint Ursula"". His style was somewhat conservative, showing little influence from the Humanist trends that transformed Italian Renaissance painting during his lifetime. He was influenced by the style of Antonello da Messina and Early Netherlandish art. For this reason, and also because so much of his best work remains in Venice, his art has been rather neglected by comparison with other Venetian contemporaries, such as Giovanni Bellini"
"Carpaccio Carpaccio ( or ; ) is a dish of meat or fish (such as beef, veal, venison, salmon or tuna), thinly sliced or pounded thin and served mainly as an appetizer. It was invented in 1950 by Giuseppe Cipriani from Harry's Bar in Venice and popularised during the second half of the twentieth century. The beef was served with lemon, olive oil, and white truffle or Parmesan cheese. Later, the term was extended to dishes containing other raw meats or fish, thinly sliced and served with lemon or vinegar, olive oil, salt and ground pepper. The dish, based on"
"Gentile da Fabriano Gentile da Fabriano ( 1370 – 1427) was an Italian painter known for his participation in the International Gothic painter style. He worked in various places in central Italy, mostly in Tuscany. His best-known works are his ""Adoration of the Magi"" from the ""Strozzi Altarpiece,"" (1423) and the ""Flight into Egypt"". Gentile was born in or near Fabriano, in the Marche. His mother died some time before 1380, and his father, Niccolò di Giovanni Massi, retired to a monastery in the same year, where he died in 1385. Little is known of his formation: one of his"
"Antonio Rocco Antonio Rocco (1586 - 1653) was an Italian priest and philosophy teacher (he graduated under Cesare Cremonini), and a writer. Ever since 1888 when he was identified as its anonymous author, he is best known for his satirical homosexual text, ""L'Alcibiade, fanciullo a scola"", written in 1630 and published in 1652. The work was immediately suppressed, and only ten copies survived the attempts to destroy the whole print run. The survival of the work led to, in 1862, to its translation and publishing in Italian. Again the work elicited immediate condemnation. It was denounced by the police as"
"Enrichetta Caracciolo Enrichetta Caracciolo (February 17, 1821 – March 17, 1901) was an Italian writer. She is best known for her 1864 autobiographical work ""Misteri del chiostro napoletano"" (Secrets of a Neapolitan cloister). The daughter of Gennaro Caracciolo, prince of Forino, and Teresa Cutelli, she was born in Naples. When she was still young, the family moved frequently due to the nature of her father's job in government service. After his death, financial difficulties forced her mother to send Caracciolo to a Benedictine convent in 1840. She was not able to regain her freedom until 1860. Caracciolo was made inspector"
"I Capuleti e i Montecchi I Capuleti e i Montecchi (""The Capulets and the Montagues"") is an Italian opera (""Tragedia lirica"") in two acts by Vincenzo Bellini. The libretto by Felice Romani was a reworking of the story of ""Romeo and Juliet"" for an opera by Nicola Vaccai called ""Giulietta e Romeo"" and based on the play of the same name by Luigi Scevola written in 1818, thus an Italian source rather than taken directly from William Shakespeare. Behind the libretto stand many Italian, ultimately Renaissance sources created by Matteo Bandello, and probably through their French translations by François de"
"Pasquale Caracciolo Pasquale Caracciolo or Pasqual Caracciolo (""floruit"" 1566–1608) was a Neapolitan nobleman who wrote a substantial treatise on horses and horsemanship. His work ""La Gloria del Cavallo"" was first published in 1566. ""La Gloria del Cavallo"" is a treatise of about a thousand pages, dedicated almost entirely to horses and horsemanship. Caracciolo discusses the correct methods of training horses, but also investigates the complex relationships between horses and people. He attributes to horses feelings comparable to those of humans. His discussion of the character of horses uses examples from the theory of humours as expounded by the second-century Greek"
"movement was later immortalized by Giacomo Puccini, a protege' of Arrigo Boito, in his opera ""La bohème"" in 1896, with a libretto written by Giuseppe Giacosa. Orchestra director Arturo Toscanini was another famous figure who shared the ideals of the Scapigliatura. Other exponents of the movement were the writers Carlo Dossi (1849–1910) and Camillo Boito (1836–1914), older brother of Arrigo and a well-known art critic, who wrote the short story ""Senso"", which later inspired Luchino Visconti's film by the same title in 1954 and Tinto Brass' film of 2002. ""Il Corriere della Sera"", to this day the major Italian newspaper,"
"Eduardo De Filippo Eduardo De Filippo (24 May 1900 – 31 October 1984), also known simply as Eduardo was an Italian actor, playwright, screenwriter, author and poet, best known for his Neapolitan works ""Filumena Marturano"" and ""Napoli Milionaria"". Considered as one of the most important italian artists of 20th century was author of many theatrical dramas put on play and directed by himself first and later awarded and played outside Italy. For his artistic merits and contribution to the culture was nominee ""senatore a vita"" by Italian Presidente della Repubblica Sandro Pertini. De Filippo was born in Naples to playwright"