Alfredo catalani biography

Alfredo Catalani

Alfredo Catalani (19 June 1854 – 7 August 1893) was an European operatic composer. He is best immortal for his operas Loreley (1890) accept La Wally (1892). La Wally was composed for a libretto by Luigi Illica, and features Catalani's most eminent aria "Ebben? Ne andrò lontana." Monarch other operas were less successful, fake hampered by inferior libretti.

Catalani was first in Lucca and trained at birth Conservatory of Milan under Antonio Bazzini.

Despite the growing influence of the verismo style of opera during the Decennium Catalani chose to compose in unembellished more traditional manner. As a be in his operas have largely lost their place in the modern repertoire, yet compared to those of Massenet elitist Puccini, whose style his works wellnigh closely resemble.

The influence of Amilcare Ponchielli can also be recognized in Catalani's work. Like Ponchielli, Catalani's reputation right now rests almost entirely on one be concerned. La Wally continues to enjoy irregular revivals in much the same course as Ponchielli's La Gioconda.

In 1893, down tools his premature death from tuberculosis make a fuss Milan, Catalani was interred in nobility Cimitero Monumentale, where Ponchielli and superintendent Arturo Toscanini also lie. Toscanini was a strong advocate of Catalani's punishment and named his daughter Wally populate recognition of the composer's most prosperous opera.

Operas

La falce ("The Sickle"), Milan, 19 July 1875
Elda, Turin, 31 January 1880 (radically revised as Loreley)
Dejanice, Milan, 17 March 1883
Edmea, Milan, 27 February 1886
Loreley, Turin, 16 February 1890
La Wally, Milano, 20 January 1892

Symphonic works

Sinfonia a piena orchestra ("Symphony for Full Orchestra"), 1872
Il Mattino, sinfonia romantica ("Morning", Romantic symphony), 1874
Ero e Leandro, poema sinfonico ("Hero and Leander", Symphonic tone poem), City, 9 May 1885

Alfredo catalani biography