Autograph letter signed "U Giordano" to the journalist Marescotti
3 pp. of a bifolium. Octavo. Dated April 5, 1915. In black ink. On stationery with "Villa Fedora Baveno" embossed at head. In Italian (with translation).
Giordano will have Mr. Carozzelli, of the Sonzogno publishing firm, send Marescotti a piano-vocal score and libretto of his opera, Madame Sans Gêne. He hopes that Marescotti, a critic, will write a few complementary things about the opera.
"I'm glad that you speak about [the opera] with your competence, [which is] evident from the Encyclopedia, and I hope that this time you will want to write differently than before, a few flattering things for me."
Very slightly worn and soiled; creased at folds.
"Giordano handled the late Romantic, emotionally vehement idiom of the giovane scuola with ease and fluency, being particularly skilful in weaving into his scores elements of local and historical colour ... His stage sense is always sure, and his vocal writing unfailingly effective." Julien Budden in Grove Music Online.
Madame Sans Gêne, was first performed at the Metropolitan Opera in New York on 25 January 1915.
Marescotti was a critic for the journal, Musici e Musicisti, organ of the Casa Ricordi. In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries a great rivalry existed between Ricordi and Sonzogno, the two most important Italian publishing firms of the period. This may explain why Marescotti had been critical of Giordano, whose works Sonzogno championed.
Item #23521
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