Mascagni, Pietro. (1862-1945). Cavalleria Rusticana - First Edition Vocal Score with Autograph. Together with Autograph Signature and photographMilan: Sonzogno. 1890. First edition. Cavalleria Rusticana. Melodramma in Un Atto di G. Targioni-Tozzetti e G. Menasci. Musica del Maestro Pietro Mascagni. Riduzione per Canto e Pianoforte di Leopoldo Mugnone. 168 pp. [PN] E. 492 S. Original pictorial lithograph covers affixed to contemporary boards over maroon percaline. Some foxing and tears to edges of pages, generally well repaired. Fuld, page 301.
Sold together with an autograph signature and postcard photograph of the composer.
Cavalleria Rusticana is the most well-known work of the composer who wrote 15 additional operas. The publisher of the present First Edition had announced a competition in July of 1888, open to all young Italian composers who had not yet had an opera performed on stage. Mascagni apparently had not heard of the competition until only two months before its closing date, but found his librettists and completed the work in time for submission on the final day of the competition. The opera won and was first performed in Rome at the Teatro Costanzi on May 17, 1890 with Mascagni apparently taking 40 curtain calls on opening night. It has since remained one of the most beloved of all Italian operas, frequently paired in a so-called "Cav/Pag" double-bill with Leoncavallo's Pagliacci.
Sold together with an autograph signature and postcard photograph of the composer.
Cavalleria Rusticana is the most well-known work of the composer who wrote 15 additional operas. The publisher of the present First Edition had announced a competition in July of 1888, open to all young Italian composers who had not yet had an opera performed on stage. Mascagni apparently had not heard of the competition until only two months before its closing date, but found his librettists and completed the work in time for submission on the final day of the competition. The opera won and was first performed in Rome at the Teatro Costanzi on May 17, 1890 with Mascagni apparently taking 40 curtain calls on opening night. It has since remained one of the most beloved of all Italian operas, frequently paired in a so-called "Cav/Pag" double-bill with Leoncavallo's Pagliacci.
Mascagni, Pietro. (1862-1945). Cavalleria Rusticana - First Edition Vocal Score with Autograph. Together with Autograph Signature and photographMilan: Sonzogno. 1890. First edition. Cavalleria Rusticana. Melodramma in Un Atto di G. Targioni-Tozzetti e G. Menasci. Musica del Maestro Pietro Mascagni. Riduzione per Canto e Pianoforte di Leopoldo Mugnone. 168 pp. [PN] E. 492 S. Original pictorial lithograph covers affixed to contemporary boards over maroon percaline. Some foxing and tears to edges of pages, generally well repaired. Fuld, page 301.
Sold together with an autograph signature and postcard photograph of the composer.
Cavalleria Rusticana is the most well-known work of the composer who wrote 15 additional operas. The publisher of the present First Edition had announced a competition in July of 1888, open to all young Italian composers who had not yet had an opera performed on stage. Mascagni apparently had not heard of the competition until only two months before its closing date, but found his librettists and completed the work in time for submission on the final day of the competition. The opera won and was first performed in Rome at the Teatro Costanzi on May 17, 1890 with Mascagni apparently taking 40 curtain calls on opening night. It has since remained one of the most beloved of all Italian operas, frequently paired in a so-called "Cav/Pag" double-bill with Leoncavallo's Pagliacci.
Sold together with an autograph signature and postcard photograph of the composer.
Cavalleria Rusticana is the most well-known work of the composer who wrote 15 additional operas. The publisher of the present First Edition had announced a competition in July of 1888, open to all young Italian composers who had not yet had an opera performed on stage. Mascagni apparently had not heard of the competition until only two months before its closing date, but found his librettists and completed the work in time for submission on the final day of the competition. The opera won and was first performed in Rome at the Teatro Costanzi on May 17, 1890 with Mascagni apparently taking 40 curtain calls on opening night. It has since remained one of the most beloved of all Italian operas, frequently paired in a so-called "Cav/Pag" double-bill with Leoncavallo's Pagliacci.