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Pietro Mascagni (7 December 1863 – 2 August 1945) was an Italian composer primarily known 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.
Pietro Mascagni (born December 7, 1863, Livorno, Kingdom of Italy—died August 2, 1945, Rome, Italy) was an Italian operatic composer, one of the principal exponents of verismo, a style of opera writing marked by melodramatic, often violent plots with characters drawn from everyday life.
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Cavalleria rusticana (pronounced [kavalleˈriːa rustiˈkaːna]; Italian for 'Rustic Chivalry') is an opera in one act by Pietro Mascagni to an Italian libretto by Giovanni Targioni-Tozzetti and Guido Menasci, adapted from an 1880 short story of the same name and subsequent play by Giovanni Verga.
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Pietro Antonio Stefano Mascagni ( Livorno, 7 dicembre 1863 – Roma, 2 agosto 1945) è stato un compositore e direttore d'orchestra italiano . Voce di Mascagni che presenta la sua registrazione della Cavalleria rusticana (1940).
Aug 17, 2022 · Though Dec. 7 remains the date that “will live in infamy,” it also marks the birth of one of operas most influential composers, Pietro Mascagni. Born on St. Ambrose Day in 1863, in Tuscany, Mascagni went on to write 15 operas, from L’amico Fritz (1891) to Nerone (1935).
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Pietro Mascagni (7 December 1863 – 2 August 1945) was an Italian composer primarily known 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.
