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Price: $650.00 |
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A FEW FOX MARKS, NEAR MINT CONDITION |
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Autographed and inscribed Montabone of Rome cabinet photograph of the Priest-Composer, 12 April, 1904. Perosi (1872-1956) came from a musical family. He studied composition at the Milan Conservatory with Saladino and upon graduation in 1892 and a year with Haberl at his school of church music in Regensburg. While a student in Milan, he was also given his first professional post as organist of the massive Abbey at Montecassino. In 1894, he moved to Solesmes Abbey to study with the Gregorian chant experts Mocquereau and Pothier. Perosi took the position of Maestro di Cappella Marciana at the Cathedral at San Marcos in 1894, taking his priestly orders in 1895. He stayed there until 1898, when he was made Maestro di Cappella of the Sistine Chapel at the Vatican and Director of the Vatican Choir. This was to be his final position, though he did resign the post in 1915 due to mental illness and spent the year 1922-23 in a sanitarium, though there were relapses up to the time of his death. Perosi, was a member of the post-Verdi “Giovane Scuola” of composers, which included Catalani, Franchetti, Giordano, Leoncavallo, Mascagni and Puccini. There is a famous 1930 photograph of Perosi flanked by Mascagni and Giordano in their Commendatore regalia. Perosi was the one non-operatic composer in this school. Perosi’s music was prolific and extensive. He served 5 Popes during his lifetime, writing over 22 oratorios, 54 masses with either organ, or symphonic accompaniment, 342 motets, 23 vocal works, 2 symphonic poems, 8 orchestral pieces named after Italian towns a piano concerto, 2 violin concertos, 34 chamber music of varying configurations including 18 string quartets and 3 piano trios, and 11 organ works and cycles. Arturo Toscanini and Enrico Caruso were both great admirers of the composer, the conductor leading the World Premier of his oratorio “Mosé” in 1901 and Caruso programmed a number of his songs. However, they were not his only musical “fans” which included Arrigo Boito and the members of the Young Italian School. In 1899, a performance of his music at Carnegie Hall prompted an article which described him as a genius. Rare and youthful, a superb example! |
PADRE LORENZO PEROSI - COMPOSER |
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