Giovanni Sgambati - Fogli Volanti Op. 12 (1880) [2/2]

Giovanni Sgambati (1841-1914)
Fogli Volanti, op. 8 (ca 1880), Mainz, Schott (as op. 12)

I. Romanza
II. Canzonetta
III. Idillio
IV. Marcia (Humoreske)
V. Idillio
VI. Vecchio Castello (Croquis) 0:00
VII. Epanouissement 3:42
VIII. Combattimento 4:57
IX. Campane A Festa (Epitalamio) 6:37

Pietro Spada, piano

Giovanni Sgambati was born in Rome and he died there. Bald facts tell only part of the story. He was in fact no parochialist and briefly his music permeated European and American cultural life with celebrity premieres by no means unusual in the period 1880-1905. He was out of the ordinary as an Italian composer in not writing opera. To this extent he laboured under the same burden as Martucci. Liszt took the young composer under his wing and introduced him to Wagner. It was Wagner's intervention with Schotts that resulted in that company publishing many of Sgambati's chamber works. He was also active as a conductor championing the German repertoire. He conducted Liszt's Dante Symphony in 1866. Fellow Italian composer Alfredo Casella wrote an article about Sgambati (Music and Letters, 1925).

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