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MASCAGNI, PIETRO (1863– )

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MASCAGNI, PIETRO (1863– ) , See also:Italian operatic composer, was See also:born at See also:Leghorn, the son of a See also:baker, and educated for the See also:law; but he neglected his legal studies for See also:music, taking See also:secret lessons at the Instituto See also:Luigi See also:Cherubini. There a See also:symphony by him was performed in 1879, and various other compositions attracted See also:attention, so that See also:money was provided by a wealthy See also:amateur for him to study at the See also:Milan See also:Conservatoire. But Mascagni chafed at the teaching, and soon See also:left Milan to become conductor to a touring operatic See also:company. After a somewhat chequered See also:period he suddenly leapt into fame by the See also:production at See also:Rome in 1890 of his one-See also:act See also:opera Cavalleria Rusticana, containing a tuneful " intermezzo," which became wildly popular. Mascagni was the musical See also:hero of the See also:hour,. and Cavalleria Rusticana was performed everywhere. But his later See also:work failed to repeat this success. L'Amico Fritz (1891), I Rantzau (1892), Guglielmo Ratcliff (1895), Silvano (1893), Zanetto (1896), See also:Iris (1898), Le Maschere (1901), and See also:Arnica (1903), were coldly or adversely received; and though Cavalleria Rusticana, with its catchy melodies, still held the See also:stage, this See also:succession of failures involved a steady decline in the composer's reputation. From 1895 to 1903 Mascagni was director of the See also:Pesaro Conservatoire, but in the latter See also:year, having left his See also:post in See also:order to tour through the See also:United States, he was dismissed from the See also:appointment.

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