Malipiero: Tre commedie goldoniane

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Christian Benda
Tamás Major
Orchestra della Svizzera Italiana
Gian Francesco Malipiero

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Composition History

Malipiero's opera Lancelotto del lago (Lancelot of the Lake) was withdrawn in 1916 not for artistic reasons, but because he discovered the librettist was having an affair with his wife.

Composer Biography

Malipiero's personality was a mass of almost irreconcilable opposites, including deep pessimism and self-pity alongside genuine love for people and animals.

Composer's Artistic Vision

Malipiero had a profound love for Venetian glories and early Italian music, coupled with an aversion to 19th-century Italian opera and Germanic musical models.

Composer Biography

Malipiero's childhood was marked by a vagrant life with his wastrel father, a low-grade pianist and conductor, traveling with third-rate dance bands.

Composer Biography

Gian Francesco Malipiero, the composer, was described by American music-writer David Ewen as having a love of wit, a malicious sense of humor, generosity, and a tender heart.

Composer Biography

Malipiero's grandfather, Francesco, had an opera about Attila the Hun that was a hit in Venice, just before Verdi's Attila flopped there, leading to a family legend of Verdi's publisher suppressing his work.