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	Ruggero Leoncavallo - Search Results - MSN Encarta
		Leoncavallo, Ruggero (1858-1919), Italian composer, who was an exponent of the verismo, or realistic, style in opera, a reaction against the...
		Italian composer Ruggero Leoncavallo wrote the opera Pagliacci (Clowns) in 1892.
		Ruggero (Ruggiero) Leoncavallo (April 23, 1857 - August 9, 1919) was an Italian opera composer.
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	Ruggiero Leoncavallo - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Ruggiero Leoncavallo (March 8, 1857 - August 9, 1919) was an Italian opera composer.
		He was born in Naples and educated at the Conservatorio San Pietro a Majella of that city.
		Leoncavallo was the librettist for all of his own operas.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Ruggiero_Leoncavallo (376 words)

	Composer
		Ruggero Leoncavallo, the son of a magistrate, was born in Naples, Italy.
		Leoncavallo's next operatic project was I Medici, the first part of an ambitious trilogy of works based on events of the Italian Renaissance.
		Leoncavallo produced several more operas in the years before his death in 1919, but today only Pagliacci is regularly performed, and almost always on the same program with Mascagni's Cavalleria Rusticana.
	www.thecore.nus.edu.sg /landow/cpace/theory/authorship/voocheekee/composer.html (659 words)

	History of Art: History of Classical Music - Ruggero Leoncavallo
		The son of a police magistrate, Leoncavallo was born in Naples and entered the Conservatoire there in 1866.
		In 1893 both Leoncavallo and Puccini independently began setting the text of the popular novel La Boheme, but Leoncavallo's version reached the stage a year after Puccini's and was unable to compete with his rival's already highly popular work.
		Although Leoncavallo never achieved the universal recognition he felt should be his, he was an accomplished musician and his best work has a dramatic appeal that has guaranteed continuing popularity.
	www.all-art.org /music/leoncavallo.html (429 words)

	RUGGERO LEONCAVALLO - MATTINATA (Site not responding. Last check: )
		La Ruggero Leoncavallo - Mattinata Chanson des yeuxHis Bohème in comic-sentimental vein, was presented with an outstanding performer, the Ruggero Leoncavallo - Mattinata famous Rosina Storchio, at the Fenice in Venice in 1897.
		The composer refused and a civil case opened that Ruggero Leoncavallo - Mattinata was not resolved until 1899, when the court issued an unfavourable verdict for the publisher.
		Ruggero Leoncavallo - Mattinata Thanks to the recommendation of the baritone Victor Maurel, he obtained a commission, and with Ruggero Leoncavallo - Mattinata it a cheque, from Ricordi to set to music I Medici, the first part of Ruggero Leoncavallo - Mattinata a trilogy on the Italian Renaissance.
	www.ruggeroleoncavallo.com /operas/Ruggero_Leoncavallo_-_Mattinata/Ruggero_Leoncavallo_-_Mattinata.html (222 words)

	Ruggero Leoncavallo : Freebase - The World's Database
		Ruggero (Ruggiero) Leoncavallo (April 23, 1857- August 9, 1919) was an Italian opera composer.
		The son of a police magistrate, Leoncavallo was educated at the Conservatorio San Pietro a Majella in his native city, Naples (the date 1858, given for his birth in older histories of music, is incorrect).
		(According to Leoncavallo, the plot of this work had a real-life origin: he claimed it derived from a murder trial over which his father had presided.) Pagliacci was performed in Milan in 1892 with immediate success; today it is the only work...
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	Ruggero Leoncavallo â“ FREE Ruggero Leoncavallo Information \| Encyclopedia.com: Find Ruggero Leoncavallo Research
		Giacomo Puccini's rejection of Leoncavallo's help with Manon Lescaut and Ricordi's rejection of his own projects caused him in anger to write the verismo one-act opera Pagliacci (1892) for Ricordi's rival.
		Mascagni's "Cavalleria Rusticana" and Ruggero Leoncavallo's "Pagliacci" represent opera...
		Journal of Psychosomatic Obstetrics and Gynecology; 12/1/2005; Schuiling, Gerard A; 1925 words; La commedia finita Pagliacci Ruggero Leoncavallo Having been encouraged by the Editors-in-Chief of this journal to write a series of papers concerning various aspects of (human...
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1B1-370037.html (800 words)

	Brissago - Ruggero Leoncavallo
		Ruggero Leoncavallo was born on the 23rd April 1857 in Chiaia (Naples).
		Ruggero Leoncavallo died on the 9th August 1919 in Montecatini Terme.
		It offers insight into a number of documents and rarities from Leoncavallo, which are of great value not only to music lovers but also to students.
	www.brissago.ch /en/700.htm (115 words)

	Ruggero Leoncavallo - ChoralWiki
		The son of a judge, Leoncavallo was educated at the Conservatorio San Pietro a Majella in his native city, Naples (the date 1858, given for his birth in older histories of music, is incorrect).
		Leoncavallo was the librettist for all of his own operas.
		Among Leoncavallo's librettos for other composers is his contribution to the libretto for Puccini's Manon Lescaut.
	www.cpdl.org /wiki/index.php/Ruggero_Leoncavallo (429 words)

	RUGGERO LEONCAVALLO - VALSE COQUETTE (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Ruggero Leoncavallo - operas:Nights Ruggero Leoncavallo - Valse coquette of ItalyRuggero Leoncavallo - biography:Zazà - Commedia lirica in quattro atti di Ruggero Ruggero Leoncavallo - Valse coquette LeoncavalloPagliacci was staged at the Dal Verme theatre in Milan on 21st May 1892.
		Ruggero Leoncavallo - Valse coquette Conducted by Arturo Toscanini, with Victor Maurel in the part of Tonio, it was a Ruggero Leoncavallo - Valse coquette triumph and Leoncavallo was hailed as "second champion" (the first being Mascagni) of the verismo Ruggero Leoncavallo - Valse coquette school.
		While he was in Bologna he composed his Ruggero Leoncavallo - Valse coquette first opera "Chatterton" on his own libretto, though the opera was not staged until 1896.
	www.ruggeroleoncavallo.com /operas/Ruggero_Leoncavallo_-_Valse_coquette/Ruggero_Leoncavallo_-_Valse_coquette.html (230 words)

	Composer Ruggero Leoncavallo: Italian Creator of Verismo (Realism) Style, Famous for I Pagliacci
		Ruggero Leoncavallo was born in Naples on march 8, 1857.
		A son of a judge, Leoncavallo based his opera plot from one of his father's real cases and made it to a libretto of his famous opera I Pagliacci.
		Leoncavallo studied at the Naples Conservatory, completing with a diploma of maestro (master) at the age of 18.
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	Ruggero Leoncavallo (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Leoncavallo understood that his friend Marco Sala, a journalist who was a habitué of the best-known salons of the time, was quite right: "Defend your work in any way you can and keep your eyes wide open.
		The publisher was shocked, particularly by the most original part of the libretto, that is the opening in which the leading character recites the prologue, that was practically the manifesto of verismo opera.
		The German Emperor, Wilhelm II commissioned Leoncavallo to write Der Roland von Berlin in 1904, and this was followed by Maia (1910), Gli Zingari (1912), Goffredo Mameli (1916) and Edipo Re (1920).
	www.operaitaliana.net /leoncavalloeng.htm (1336 words)

	OPERA America — The National Service Organization for Opera
		Ruggero Leoncavallo was born to a household of comfortable means.
		Leoncavallo's next work was an adaptation of Henri Murger's Scènes de la vie de bohème for the operatic stage.
		This led to one of the more heated rivalries of the late 19 th century, for Puccini announced he also was planning to produce an opera based on Murger's book, an intention he claimed to have had for several months.
	www.operaamerica.org /audiences/learningcenter/cornerstones/pagliacci/pagbio.htm (465 words)

	La Boheme - Ruggero Leoncavallo
		Unlike Puccini, Leoncavallo, who also wrote the libretto, kept much closer in it to Murger’s original story; after all, he himself had spent some time, still before composing this opera, in Paris, and so got to know intimately the place and atmosphere described by Murger.
		In a dynamic sequence of scenes (or “clips,” were one to apply today’s terminology), he portrays members of a stratum rebelling against the established social pattern by their own extreme lifestyle.
		The production’s first night at the Prague State Opera, on March 13, 2003, was acclaimed by Czech and German critics alike as one of the season’s finest opera premieres, and as an unequivocal rehabilitation of this undeservedly omitted Leoncavallo stage piece.
	www.ticketsbti.cz /WBS/ang/popis/labohemel.html (296 words)

	Remembering Ruggero Leoncavallo on the 80th anniversary of his death
		Ruggero Leoncavallo wrote about a dozen operas and ten operettas during the course of his life.
		Leoncavallo's literature studies also seemed to be paying off: in 1889 he was commissioned to write the libretto to Manon Lescaut for Giacomo Puccini.
		Though he may have wished to be remembered for his larger works, Leoncavallo earned his place in the pantheon of opera composers for a one-acter that will continue to move audiences for generations to come.
	www.unitel.de /unitel_homepage/unitel/uhilites/150999.htm (555 words)

	Learn - Ruggero Leoncavallo - Arizona Opera
		Ruggero Leoncavallo was born in Naples on March 5, 1858.
		Leoncavallo's libretto was based on Catulle Mendès' play La Femme de Tabarin (1887), although Leoncavallo's version of how he came to his libretto was more colorful.
		In 1897, Leoncavallo premiered La Bohème which is one of his finest works, and even though Leoncavallo's version followed Henri Mürger's story more closely than Puccini's, it was completely eclipsed by the success of Puccini's version which premiered in 1896.
	www.azopera.com /learn.php?subcat=composerbios&composer=Leoncavallo (478 words)

	Open Directory - Arts: Music: Composition: Composers: L: Leoncavallo, Ruggero (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Ruggero Leoncavallo - Discussion of his place among operatic composers, especially his influence on verisimo.
		Ruggero Leoncavallo - Biography and photographs, list of operas, and noted performers of his works.
		Ruggero Leoncavallo (1857 - 1919) - Karadar dictionary entry with life, portraits and caricature, related composers, and listing of operas and operettas including the Italian libretto to I Pagliacci.
	dmoz.org /Arts/Music/Composition/Composers/L/Leoncavallo,_Ruggero (248 words)

	Ruggero Leoncavallo
		Such is the case of Ruggero Leoncavallo and his short opera, Pagliacci.
		Leoncavallo received his musical education at the conservatory of his native Naples, going from there to Bologna where he received a degree in literature.
		Leoncavallo wrote a few moderately successful operas (including a setting of La bohème, written close on the heels of Puccini's), but his fame rests with this one rather short work, which is most often performed paired with another work by a single-hit operatic composer, Pietro Mascagni's Cavalleria rusticana (1890).
	www.wwnorton.com /classical/composers/leoncavallo.htm (311 words)

	Ruggero Leoncavallo: Biography - Classic Cat
		Little or nothing from Leoncavallo's 'other' operas is heard today, but the baritone aria from Zazà was a great favourite among baritones and Zazà as a whole is sometimes revived.
		Among Leoncavallo's libretti for other composers is his contribution to the libretto for Puccini's Manon Lescaut.
		'Leoncavallo, Ruggero', in Stanley Sadie and Christina Bashford (eds.) The New Grove Dictionary of Opera, 1992, Macmillan, pp.
	www.classiccat.net /leoncavallo_r/biography.htm (764 words)

	Ruggero Leoncavallo Biography from Basic Famous People - Biographies of Celebrities and other Famous People
		Ruggiero Leoncavallo (Aprinol 23, 1857- August 9, 1919) was an Italian opera composer.
		Leoncavallo was educated at the Conservatorio San Pietro a Majella in his native city, Naples.
		Its most famous aria Vesti la giubba ("On with the motley") was recorded by Enrico Caruso and became the world's first record to sell 1 million copies.
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	OperaResource - ruggero leoncavallo and pagliacci (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Leoncavallo's other fourteen operas and operettas suffered essentially the same fate as Mascagni's - polite interest, but no rousing success.
		However, this story is a lot of nonsense and belongs in the realm of the anecdote.
		Leoncavallo was staying in the French capital during that period, and it is more than likely that he attended one or more of the performances.
	www.r-ds.com /opera/resource/pagliacci.htm (404 words)

	Ruggero Leoncavallo
		Leoncavallo wrote other operas—i Medici (1893), Chatterton (1896), Zazà; (1900), and Der Roland von Berlin (1904), but none of those remain in the standard repertoire, especially not the one with the German title!
		Between 1909 and his death, Leoncavallo wrote a number of other operas, operettas and songs, which today are totally obscure.
		Interestingly, Leoncavallo (like Wagner and a few others) was the librettist for all of his own operas and was considered a great one.
	faculty.ed.umuc.edu /~jmatthew/naples/Leoncavallo.htm (880 words)

	- Classical Music Dictionary - Free MP3
		He was a staunch supporter of Wagner’s music which inspired his early work.
		Leoncavallo’s style gradually evolved into the Italian verismo (realism) movement in opera.
		He began his career as a concert pianist in Egypt and, for several years, earned his living in Paris as a tutor of singing and piano.
	www.karadar.com /Dictionary/leoncavallo.html (93 words)

	KeepMedia \| Rough Guides Music: Ruggero Leoncavallo
		Just as Italians in the eighteenth century would have nothing to do with Gluck, so in the nineteenth century they were extremely uncomfortable with Wagner, an attitude typified by the career of Ruggero Leoncavallo.
		When the promoter of the premiere disappeared with all the money before the first night, Leoncavallo approached a publisher with a view to issuing Chatterton in print.
		However, the publisher felt Leoncavallo to be a better librettist than composer, and commissioned him to write the text for Puccini's Manon Lescaut.
	keepmedia.com /pubs/RoughGuidesMusic/2001/11/01/284409?...&oliID=229 (220 words)

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