The Orchestra Sinfonica di Savona, founded in 1992, had the unique privilege of having the renowned Maestro Carlo Maria Giulini as its honorary president.
Performer Biography
The Orchestra Sinfonica di Savona has performed with internationally famous conductors and soloists, and has made world premiere recordings.
Composer Biography
Ruggero Leoncavallo, though famous for his opera Pagliacci, is largely unknown for the rest of his musical output, which has fallen into obscurity.
Compositional Technique
In La Nuit de Mai, Leoncavallo assigned the Poet's verses to the tenor and the Muse's more complex and lengthy verses to the orchestra, treating them as program music.
Compositional Technique
La Nuit de Mai features a large late-Romantic orchestra, including a substantial brass section, and uniquely incorporates a lute and mandola because the opening words are 'Poet, take your lute'.
Composer Biography
Leoncavallo had an adventurous youth, graduating from a conservatory at 17, earning a literature degree at 20, and living in Egypt before settling in Paris.
Composition History
Leoncavallo composed La Nuit de Mai, a symphonic poem for tenor and orchestra, in 1886 based on a poem by Alfred de Musset, during a difficult period in his career.
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