Giuseppe Pietri

Giuseppe Pietri ( born May 6, 1886 in Sant'ilario, today Campo nell'Elba; † August 11, 1946 in Milan ) was an Italian composer.

Pietri studied at the Milan Conservatory composition with Gaetano Coronato, harmony and counterpoint with amine gates Galli. After his first opera Calendimaggio, which premiered in 1910 in Florence, will Pietri devoted primarily to the composition of stage works, in addition to a total of four operas in veristic tradition, he wrote numerous operettas, which were extremely popular in contrast to his operas and today to the Italian game plans are found. His merit is the development of an independent Italian idiom for the operetta, which he did not last drew from the subjects of the regional folk theater, which came from the books of his works. The breakthrough he achieved already with his first work in the genre, Addio giovinezza, a piece that plays in the student Bohème Turin, released in Livorno in 1915. The most famous was L' acqua cheta that came in Rome in 1920 for the premiere. The text came from a 1908 published Tuscan dialect piece of the author Augusto Novelli and brought a romantic comedy in the Florentine petty bourgeois milieu to the stage. A single work Pietris was translated into German, Rompicollo, a piece about the Palio of Siena, which was premiered in 1928 in Milan, stood as The Great Race some time on German game plans.

Works

  • Operas Calendimaggio, Libretto: Pietro Gori, Florence 1910
  • Ruy Blas by Victor Hugo, Bologna 1916
  • Maristella, Naples 1930 ( extracts available on CD at Myto Records, with Rina Gigli and Agostino Lazzari, 1956)
  • Rondine Bionda, Livorno 1937
  • La canzone di San Giovanni Sanremo 1939
  • Addio giovinezza ( " Adieu, youth " ), libretto by Sandro Camasio, Livorno 1915
  • Acqua cheta ( " Still Waters ") Libretto: Augusto Novelli, Nessi Angelo, Rome 1920
  • Guarda guarda la mostarda! , Rome 1923
  • La donna perduta, Libretto: Guglielmo Zorzi, Guglielmo Giannini, Rome 1923
  • Prima Rosa, libretto by Renato Simoni, Milan 1926
  • Rompicollo ( " The Race" ), libretto by Luigi Bonelli and Ferdinando Paolieri, Milan 1928
  • Casa mia, casa mia ..., Libretto: Augusto Novelli, Nessi Angelo, Rome 1930
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