{"product_id":"9781461716655","title":"Leoncavallo: Life and Works","description":"\u003ci\u003eLeoncavallo: Life and Works\u003c\/i\u003e is the first fully documented biography of the beloved and popular composer Ruggiero Leoncavallo (1857-1919), whose credits include \u003ci\u003ePagliacci\u003c\/i\u003e and the operatic works \u003ci\u003eChatterton\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eDer Roland von Berlin\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eZazà, Maïa, Zingari, La bohème\u003c\/i\u003e, and the incomplete trilogy \u003ci\u003eCrepusculum\u003c\/i\u003e. Author Konrad Dryden has amassed material from hundreds of unpublished letters and photographs, creating the most complete portrait of the composer to date.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis book examines various facets of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 \u003ci\u003ePagliacci\u003c\/i\u003e was based to his studies with the poet Giosuè Carducci, and from his sojourn in France as a \u003ci\u003ecafé-chantant\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe 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 Plácido Domingo, a photo spread featuring more than 25 photos, and an appendix offering the complete list of the composer's opus add to the bibliography and index, making this the ultimate reference on this important figure in music and opera history.","brand":"Rowman \u0026 Littlefield Publishers, Inc.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47129304826096,"sku":"9781461716655","price":94.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781461716655_p0.jpg?v=1769890279","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781461716655","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}