Emanuele Muzio
Donnino Emanuele Muzio (24 August 1821 in Zibello – 27 November 1890 in Paris) was an Italian composer, conductor and vocal teacher. He was a lifelong friend and the only student of Giuseppe Verdi.[1]
Biography
In Busseto, Verdi's home town, Muzio studied with Ferdinando Provesi and then, from 1844, with the composer himself who took Muzio to Milan to become his assistant. While in Busseto, he was also a piano student of Verdi's first wife, Margherita Barezzi.[2]
In later years, Muzio was conductor of the Italian Opera in Brussels in 1852 as well as conducting in London and at the Academy of Music in New York City. In 1875, he settled in Paris as a vocal teacher. His students include Carlotta Patti and Clara Louise Kellogg.[2]
Selected works
Operas
- Giovanna la pazza, Opera in 3 acts (1851); libretto by Luigi Silva; premiere at Teatro Italiano in Brussels
- Claudia, Lyric Melodrama in 3 acts (1853); libretto by Giulio Carcano; premiere at Teatro Re in Milan
- Le due regine, Tragic Melodrama in 3 acts (1856); libretto by Giovanni Peruzzini; premiere at Teatro della Cannobiana in Milan
- La sorrentina, Lyric Drama in 4 acts (1857); premiere at Teatro Comunale in Bologna
Chamber music
- Mazurka di concerto for horn and piano (1849)
- Andante e Rondoletto for viola and piano (1858)
Piano
- 3 Studi sopra una cavatina dell'opera "La battaglia di Legnano" di Verdi (1849)
- Piccolomini Waltz (1858)
- Rebecca Waltzes (1860)
- The Great Uprising-Galop for piano 4-hands (1862)
- Emma Polka (1864)
- Grand March and Soldiers' Chorus, Transcription from Charles Gounod's Faust (1864)
Vocal
- Sempre più t'amo for voice and piano (1863); words by A. Bertola
- La nanna, Cradle Song for voice and piano (1864)
- La vedova for voice and piano (1864); words by Felice Romani
- Le sorelle, Valse brillante for voice and piano (1864)
- L'usignuolo (The Nightingale) for voice and piano (1864)
- Sospiro (The Sigh) for voice and piano (1864); words by Silvio Pellico
- La Madonna del pescatore, Canzone napolitana for voice and piano (1866?)
- All'aura for voice and piano (1869)
- Barcarola veneziana for 2 voices and piano (1869)
- Brindisi for 2 voices and piano (1869)
- Duettino for 2 voices and piano (1869)
- L'invito alla danza, Tarantella for voice and piano (1869)
- L'amore, La Polka for voice and piano (1869)
- Stornello toscano for voice and piano (1869)
References
- ↑ Van, Gilles de (1998). Verdi's Theater: Creating Drama through Music. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. p. 369. ISBN 0-226-14369-4.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Theodore Baker and Alfred Remy, ed. (1919). "Muzio, Emanuele". Baker's Biographical Dictionary of Musicians (3rd ed.). p. 639.
Bibliography
- L'allievo di Verdi: Emanuele Muzio by Gaspare Nello Vetro (Parma: Zara, 1993) (Italian)