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	Saverio Mercadante - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Giuseppe Saverio Raffaele Mercadante, Altamura (born near Bari, September 16, 1795 - died in Naples, December 17, 1870), was an Italian composer, particularly of operas.
		Mercadante studied music in Naples and at first showed an interest in instrumental composition.
		The encouragement of Rossini led him to compose for the opera, where he won considerable success with his seventh such work, in 1821.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Saverio_Mercadante (548 words)

	VH1.com : Saverio Mercadante : Biography
		Mercadante's "Il giuramento" premiered in 1837 and continued the musical expressions he had been incubating for the previous ten years.
		By the decade of the 1840s Mercadante had become the leading figure in Italian opera and had also acceded to the position of the director of the Naples Conservatory.
		Mercadante reformed the complex vocal lines toward a less difficult format and scored the music so that the drama of the libretto could unfold more clearly.
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	Bel Canto Society: Saverio Mercadante (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Giuseppe Saverio Raffaele Mercadante was born a bastard in Altamura, near Bari.
		While in Paris, Mercadante is generally thought to have come under the spell of Meyerbeer, whose Les Huguenots was produced at the Opéra in February 1836.
		Lippmann holds that Mercadante was best at ensembles, dialogue between characters, colorful harmonic background and slancio (surge, vehemence, sometimes ferocity) but generally average as a melodist and therefore unconvincing as a reformer.
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	Saverio Mercadante HDTVs (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		By: Vincenzo Mariozzi, Luigi Cherubini, Saverio Mercadante, Gioachino Rossini, I Solisti Aquilani, Luciano Giuliani
		By: Saverio Mercadante, Luigi Petroni, Monica Colonna, Cesare Catani, Symphony Orchestra of Ireland, Wexford Festival Opera Chorus, Nicola Ulivieri, Luigi Petroni, Elena Rossi, Lorenzo Muzzi Stefano Rinaldi-Miliani
		By: Sandu Moldovan, Gaetano Donizetti, Saverio Mercadante, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Wolfgang Grohs, Ioan Beldean, Constantin Talmaciu, Voichita Popa, Europa Symphony
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	Mercadante Rediscovered OPERA RARA ORR226 [RJF]: Classical CD Reviews- June 2004 MusicWeb(UK) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Aged eleven, Saverio Mercadante went to the ‘College di St. Sebastino’ in Naples where he attracted the interest of Rossini, four years his elder.
		Mercadante then went to Paris at the invitation of Rossini, but his ‘I briganti’ was a failure despite a cast including Grisi, Rubini and Lablanche.
		Mercadante did not succeed in banishing the cabaletta as he claimed and although he varied the structures he inherited he did not alter them fundamentally.
	www.musicweb-international.com /classrev/2004/Jun04/Mercadante_rediscovered.htm (854 words)

	Saverio MERCADANTE - Concertos for Clarinet and for Winds and Orchestra [IL]: Classical CD Reviews- June 2003 ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Mercadante’s Concerto in B flat major, full of Italian joie de vivre, lasting some seventeen-and-a-half minutes is cast in two continuous movements.
		Mercadante’s more formal, more serious and introspective (especially in the central Largo) E flat major Clarinet Concerto is nevertheless not short on melodic inspiration.
		It is not long before Mercadante’s sense of fun is sent skylarking again with more joyful virtuoso writing for the flute and clarinets leaving decorum to horn and orchestra.
	www.musicweb-international.com /classrev/2003/July03/Saverio_MERCADANTE.htm (605 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Music: Mercadante - Emma d'Antiochia [Box set] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Mercadante inhabits his own world, where Bellinian and Donizettian tunes are stretched and flattened in a fun-house mirror and interspersed with eerily vivid premonitions of Verdi.
		Nelly Miricioiu's dramatic feel for the role of Emma is beyond reproach-indeed brilliant-but she struggles mightily with the technical demands made by the composer.
		Mercadante is not normally thought of as a composer of florid music, but here he capitalized on Pasta's superhuman abilities, requiring both intense histrionics and almost prohibitively difficult coloratura.
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	Digital Sheet Music \| Mercadante, Saverio: Cadenza Concerto e minor 1st and 3rd movement (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Mercadante, Saverio: Cadenza Concerto e minor 1st and 3rd movement
		Probably in this seat, during an "open' held in 1819, the Concerto per flauto, the work of the 24 years old Mercadante, (freshly "graduated" and with his L'Apoteosi d'Ercole, at his first experience as an operatic composer) was played.
		The virtuosity of the solo part, even more elaborate in the second version of the Concerto, which for stdngs only, makes one think that the piece was written with an excellent instrumentaiist in mind.
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		I first got interested in Saverio Mercadante a little over 35 years ago, when a recording of his Il Giuramento was released on a "private label" LP.
		The Mercadante revival came to a temporary halt, but then gained new impetus with several more performances of Il Giuramento, another La vestale (Split, 1987), Elisa e Claudio (Wexford, 1988), a second Il Bravo (Martina Franca, 1990), and a Caritea, Regina di Spagna in 1995, also at Martina Franca for the bicentenary of his birth.
		That Mercadante, after writing the frequently quoted letter outlining his reforms retrogressed, gave up on these reforms, and delved into mannerisms and self-repetition.
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	Composer (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The Italian opera composer Saverio Mercadante studied music in Naples and at first showed an interest in instrumental composition.
		Of these Il giuramento (The Oath) is possibly the most significant, the first to show those new dramatic elements, responding to the text which, like Ponchielli's Gioconda, was based on Victor Hugo's Angelo.
		Mercadante was able to return to orchestral composition after his appointment in 1840 as director of the Naples Conservatory.
	www.naxos.com /composer/btm.asp?fullname=Mercadante,+Saverio (187 words)

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		But to call Mercadante second rate is to succumb to the "masterpiece syndrome" and to fail to judge his music on its own merits.
		Mercadante fancied he was reforming tired operatic conventions by streamlining vocal lines, eliminating coloratura displays, and cutting down on the cabalettas and needless repeats.
		If he has a fault, at times Mercadante appears almost too concise -- as in the writing for the tenor's final scene in which one wishes the singing would go on and on, rather like Edgardo's scene at the grave of his beloved Lucia.
	www.sandiego-online.com /opera/wexford2004.shtml (961 words)

	Amazon.com: Saverio Mercadante: Concertos for Flute and Orchestra: Music (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Mercadante may not have been as famous and well-known as some of his contemporaries (Hummel, Beethoven, Mozart, Rossini, Verdi, Donizetti, etc.), but his music was (and still is) every bit as entertaining, lighthearted and melodic as their's.
		Indeed, much of his musical style and structure can be seen in the works of the likes as Rossini, Donizetti and Verdi, both in their compositional and orchestral adaptations.
		As a matter of fact, it was on one such visit to Naples that Rossini went to hear one of the young composer's work and remarked to the director of the Conservatory, "...
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	Fnac.com - Disques Classiques - Saverio Mercadante (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Saverio Mercadante Pierangelo Gelmini Orchestre de Chambre Lario
		Saverio Mercadante Coenobium Vocale Enrico Zanovello Marco Ruggeri
		Sigmund Romberg Carl Heinrich Reinecke Saverio Mercadante Jean-Pierre Rampal Claudio Scimone
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	Saverio Mercadante (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Giuseppe Saverio Raffaele Mercadante (gedoopt op 17.9.1795 in Altamura, gest.
		Saverio Mercadante kreeg zijn muzikale opleiding bij Giacomo Tritto, Giovanni Furno en vanaf 1816 bij Nicola Antonio Zingarelli in Napels.
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		Son of a housemaid who had gotten herself "knocked up" by the master, Saverio was officially introduced into the Mercadante household when his father "adopted" him.
		Mercadante's first opera premiered when he was 24, and it so impressed the reigning Bourbon monarch that the young composer was invited into the king's box.
		It took Mercadante a long time to recover, but recover he did: a star composer once again upon the premiere of Donna Caritea, he composed a string of successes and conducted performances across Europe.
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	Guardian \| Emma d'Antiochia
		The operas of Saverio Mercadante, more than 50 of them, were hugely popular in his lifetime (1797-1870) but have been neglected ever since.
		It is all grindingly mechanical and almost devoid of real emotions; everyone gets their numbers, in a style that often harks back to Rossini and just once strikingly prefigures Verdi.
		Occasionally there is a spark of interest: in one of Emma's second-act arias there is a virtuoso obbligato, played here by a bass clarinet, but originally written for the glicibarifono, an extinct instrument that Mercadante evidently took a shine to.
	www.guardian.co.uk /print/0,3858,4781396-110430,00.html (318 words)

	Stabat Mater - Mercadante (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Giuseppe Saverio Raffaele Mercadante was born in Altamura, Italy, in 1795.
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		Short instrumental pieces for orchestra by Mercadante, somewhat in the style of Rossini overtures.
	www.stabatmater.dds.nl /mercadante.htm (224 words)

	Saverio Mercadante International Politics Online (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		By: Bernard Fonteny, Johann Sebastian Bach, Francois Devienne, Helmut Eder, Gabriel Faure, George Frideric Handel, Jacques Ibert, Aram Khachaturian, Saverio Mercadante, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
		By: Saverio Mercadante, Carl Reinecke, Bernhard Romberg, Claudio Scimone, Theodor Guschlbauer, Jean-Pierre Rampal, Bamberg Symphony Orchestra, I Solisti Veneti, Monte Carlo National Opera Orchestra, Orchestre Symphonique De Bamberg
		By: Marco Enrico Bossi, Umberto Giordano, Ruggero Leoncavallo, Pietro Mascagni, Saverio Mercadante, Amilcare Ponchielli, Giacomo Puccini, Gioachino Rossini, Giuseppe Verdi, van Westerhout
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	Program for International Sejong Soloists and Eugenia Zukerman
		Mercadante had written six flute concertos by the age of twenty-four.
		The themes are notable for their contrast, the first utilizes a forceful ascending phrase, the second is Mozartean in its "singability." The second movement, Largo, gives the flute another beautiful melody, another opportunity to be lyrical.
		With the third movement, Rondo Russo, Mercadante provides an emphatic rhythm in a mode he claims to be Russian-like.
	www.danbury.org /concert/sejprog.htm (2328 words)

	- Classical Music Dictionary - Free MP3 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Saverio Mercadante (born Altamura, near Bari, Kingdom of Naples, 16 Sep. 1795, died Naples, 17 Dec. 1870) with his 60 operas was one of the most frequently performed of nineteenth century opera composers.
		Liszt and Rossini give evidence of the respect he was shown: "The latest works by Mercadante are undoubtedly the most seriously considered in the contemporary repertoire"; "Mercadante takes over where we finish."
		His international break-through came in 1821 with the opera Elisa and Claudio which, following 48 highly successful performances at La Scala in Milan, was performed in London, Paris, Barcelona and Vienna.
	www.karadar.it /Dictionary/mercadante.html (125 words)

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		By: Luigi Cammarano, Girolamo Crescentini, Gaetano Donizetti, Giuseppe Lillo, Saverio Mercadante, Giovanni Pacini, Federico Ricci, Luigi Ricci, Gioachino Rossini, Salvatore Sarmiento
		By: Vincenzo Bellini, Gaetano Donizetti, George Frideric Handel, Franz Joseph Haydn, Saverio Mercadante, Giacomo Meyerbeer, Giovanni Paisiello, Gioachino Rossini, Antonio Vivaldi, Vincenzo Scalera
		By: Karl Leister, Saverio Mercadante, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Carl Maria von Weber, Koji Toyoda, Gumma Symphony Orchestra
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	Saverio Mercadante (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Giuseppe Saverio Raffaele Mercadante Altamura near Bari September 16 1795 - Naples December 17 1870 was an Italian opera composer.
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	Mercadante, Saverio -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		in full Giuseppe Saverio Raffaele Mercadante Italian composer and teacher who was a transitional figure in opera composition between Gaetano Donizetti, Gioacchino Rossini, and Vincenzo Bellini on the one hand and Giuseppe Verdi on the other.
		He is considered to have been an important reformer of Italian opera.
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	Saverio Mercadante Reviews - Classical Music (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		by: Joy Farrall, Gaetano Donizetti, Saverio Mercadante, Gioachino Rossini, Nicholas Daniel, Britten Sinfonia
		by: Saverio Mercadante, David Parry, Philharmonia Orchestra of London, Alastair Miles, Bruce Ford, Claire Wild, Colin Lee, Garry Magee, Majella Cullagh
		by: Michelle Carafa, Carlo Coccia, Gaetano Donizetti, Vincenzo Lavigna, Johannes Simon [Giovanni Simone] Mayr, Saverio Mercadante, Giacomo Meyerbeer, Giovanni Pacini, Gioachino Rossini, David Parry
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		by: Carl Reinecke, Saverio Mercadante, Bernhard Heinrich Romberg, Theodor Guschlbauer, Claudio Scimone, Bamberg Symphony Orchestra, Solisti Veneti, Jean-Pierre Rampal
		by: Saverio Mercadante, Johann Sebastian Bach, Giovanni Battista Pergolesi, Leopold Hofmann, Philippe Entremont, Jean-François Paillard, Claudio Scimone, Karl Richter, Vienna Chamber Orchestra, Paillard Chamber Orchestra
		by: Saverio Mercadante, Vincenzo Bellini, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Leone Magiera, Lorenzo Anselmi, National Philharmonic Orchestra, Renata Scotto
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	Giuseppe Saverio Raffaele Mercadante
		Twenty-five years go by from the Tartini's death and, this time in the deepest south of Italy, another talented musician is born who makes his first steps holding a violin and then lands, as a composer, in the world of opera: Giuseppe Saverio Raffaele Mercadante.
		It does not take him long to emerge: at twenty years of age he is already conductor of the Conservatory's orchestra, attracting the attention of Rossini and then obtaining the assignment of writing some ballets for the S. Carlo Theatre of Naples.
		But his authoritative creative personality is not only confined to the music drama sphere: his works, vast and worthy of attention, also turn to the composition of Oratories, sacred music, Symphonies, Concertos and Variations.
	www.ppmusic.com /music/comp21.htm (293 words)

	Classics Today.com - Your Online Guide to Classical Music
		Somehow I'm certain that if Opera Rara had deemed all of Mercadante's 1831 opera Zaira to as be worthy as these highlights, the Peter Moores Foundation, which funds its recordings, would have found the money to record it.
		At the opera's close, Orosmane kills Zaira out of jealousy; as she dies she refers to Nerestano as "brother", and Orosmane, realizing what he has done, kills himself.
		Tempos change unexpectedly and effectively within set pieces to add to dramatic effect; Zaira, in an extended aria, faints, and being revived, sings a cabaletta that grows and grows in intensity; a grand scene for bass is remarkably florid and features an obbligato clarinet.
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