PIZZETTI, Ildebrando 1880-1968

La Pisanella Suite d'Orchestre [Full score]. Signed by the composer.

tirée de la musique composée pour le drame de Gabriele D'Annunzio ...

Firenze: A. Forlivesi & C. [PN 10933], 1922.

Folio (ca. 330 x 250 mm). Quarter brown cloth with patterned paper boards, titling gilt to spine. 1f. (recto title, verso dedication "à Madame Ida Rubinstein et à Mrs. Kate Dalliba John. I.P."), 3ff. (titles and descriptive text for each movement, index), 120 pp. Text in French.

With composer's autograph signature to title.

From the collection of Luigi Ricci (1893-1981), Italian conductor, vocal coach, and close associate of Puccini and Mascagni.

Binding slightly worn and bumped; minor split to head of spine. Uniform light browning; small Ricordi paper stamp with price of 50 lire to title. In very good condition overall.

Originally composed as incidental music for d'Annunzio's dramatic poem, La Pisanella premiered at the Théâtre du Châtelet in Paris on 11 June 1913. The five-movement orchestral suite followed a few years later with a premiere at the Augusteo in Rome in 1917.

Ildebrando Pizzetti was an "Italian composer, conductor and critic. He was the most respected and influential of the more conservative Italian musicians of his generation. ...Pizzetti’s orchestral music does not, on the whole, reveal him at his best. Nevertheless the colourful incidental music for D’Annunzio’s La pisanelle (best known now through the popular concert suite) reveals that the rather grey, drab orchestral palette of so many of his other works, including most of the operas, was the result of deliberate choice rather than inability to do otherwise. ...In later life Pizzetti increasingly withdrew from ‘advanced’ musical circles, until 1932 he joined with Respighi, Zandonai and other reactionaries in signing a notorious manifesto, published in several Italian newspapers, attacking the more forward-looking trends of the time and recommending a return to tradition." Guido M. Gatti and John C.G. Waterhouse in Grove Music Online.

Item #34703

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