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SGAMBATI, GIOVANNI (1843– )

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Originally appearing in Volume V24, Page 757 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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SGAMBATI, GIOVANNI (1843– ) , See also:Italian composer, was See also:born in See also:Rome on the 28th of May 1843, of an Italian See also:father and an See also:English See also:mother. His See also:early See also:education took See also:place at Trevi, in See also:Umbria, and there he wrote some See also:church See also:music, and obtained experience as a See also:singer and conductor. In 186o he settled in Rome, and definitely took up the See also:work of winning See also:acceptance for the best See also:German music, which was at that See also:time neglected in See also:Italy. The See also:influence and support of See also:Liszt, who was in Rome from 1861, was naturally of the greatest See also:advantage to him, and concerts were given in which Sgambati conducted as well as played the piano. His See also:composition, of this See also:period (1864–1865) included a quartet, two piano quintets, an octet, and an See also:overture. He conducted Liszt's See also:Dante See also:symphony in 1866, and made the acquaintance of See also:Wagner's music for the first time at See also:Munich, whither he travelled in Liszt's See also:company. His first See also:album of songs appeared in 187o, and his first symphony was played at the Quirinal in 1881; this, as well as a piano See also:concerto, was performed in the course of his first visit to See also:England in 1882; and at his second visit, in 1891, his Sinfonia epitalamio was given at the Philharmonic. His most extensive work, a See also:Requiem See also:Mass, was performed in Rome 1901. His many piano-forte See also:works have won permanent success; but his influence on Italian musical See also:taste has been perhaps greater than the merits of his compositions, which, though often poetical and generally effective, are often slight in See also:style.

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