Leopoldo Mugnone

Leopoldo Mugnone ( born September 29, 1858 in Naples, Capodichino † 22 December 1941 ) was an Italian conductor and composer.

Mugnone, who came from a musical family - his father Antonio was the first double bass player at the Teatro La Fenice - composed twelve years old his first opera Il dottor Bartolo Salsapariglia. He studied at the Conservatory of San Pietro a Majella in Beniamino Cesi and Paolo Serrao. In 1875, he became the choirmaster for the comic opera and operetta at the Teatro Nuevo and composed the operetta Don Bizzarro e le sue figlie and mom Angot al serraglio di Costantino Poli after libretti by Enrico Golisciani, both of which were successfully performed at the Teatro Nuevo. At the same time he also composed chamber music and songs.

He then went to the Teatro Garibaldi and 1877 the Teatro dei Fiorentini, where he performed in a series of operas by Giovanni Paisiello, Domenico Cimarosa, Errico Petrella and Gioachino Rossini. Nacch his return to Naples, he traveled for some time as a piano accompanist with the double bass virtuoso Giovanni Bottesini. In 1887 he made ​​his debut at the Teatro Costanzi in Rome with Verdi's The Force of Destiny.

1890 Mugnone conducted the world premiere of Pietro Mascagni's Cavalleria rusticana. In 1900 he conducted the premiere of the opera Tosca of his friend Giacomo Puccini; later he was also conductor of the premieres of three operas Umberto Giordano (Andrea Chénier, 1905; Fedora, 1906; Mese mariano, 1910) and Alberto Franchetti La figlia di Jorio ( 1906).

Since 1891 Mugnone was conductor at La Scala, 1900, he conducted regularly at the Royal Opera House in London. He led numerous first Italian opera abroad as well as the premiere German and French operas (including by Georges Bizet, Jules Massenet, Hector Berlioz and Richard Wagner) in Italy. In Argentina, he directed the premiere of Wagner's Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg in Italian, also in Uruguay, he appeared as a guest conductor. Even he composed two more successful operas: Il Birichino (1892 ) and Vita Bretonna (1905 ).

Mugnone was married to the singer Maria Paolicchi.

Swell

  • David Mason Greene. " Greene's Biographical Encyclopedia of Composers ," Reproducing Piano Roll Fnd, 1985, ISBN 978-0-385-14278-6, p 847
  • Treccani.it - L' enciclopedia italiana - Mugnone, Leopoldo
  • Oxford Dictionary of Music - Leopoldo Mugnone
  • Operons - Mugnone Leopoldo
  • Man
  • Born in 1858
  • Died in 1941
  • Italian composer
  • Conductor
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