Arturo Buzzi-Peccia

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Arturo Buzzi-Peccia

Arturo Buzzi-Peccia (13 October 1854 – 29 August 1943) was an Italian singing instructor and song composer.

Biography

Buzzi-Peccia was born 13 October 1854 in

Saint-Saëns. He returned to Italy, first to Milan and eventually taking a position in Turin as a voice teacher.[1]

He began to write music while still in school, and composed three works to secure his diploma from the Milan Conservatory in 1875. In 1886 his Visione e Baccanale romano was performed at

Lolita: Serenata spagnola" (1892), recorded by many singers over the years including Enrico Caruso, John McCormick, Titta Ruffo, Mario Lanza, Richard Tucker and Alfredo Kraus. His "Mal d'Amore" was sung by Joseph Schmidt in the 1934 film My Song Goes Round the World. Most of his songs were written in Italian, but he also wrote lyrics in French and English. His most famous novelty song, "La Cigarette du Paradis
" (Song of the Cigarette), was written in French.

He came to the United States in 1898 to teach voice at the Chicago Musical College with references from such notables as Giuseppe Verdi and Arrigo Boito.[3] Two years later Buzzi-Peccia moved to New York to teach at the Metropolitan College of Music.[1] He was the first voice teacher of Alma Gluck,[4] and also of Sophie Braslau.[5] Another pupil of Buzzi-Peccia was Dorothy Caruso, wife of Enrico Caruso.[a][citation needed]

Many artists recorded Buzzi-Peccia's songs, among them Amelita Galli-Curci, Beniamino Gigli, Aureliano Pertile, Claudia Muzio, Carlo Bergonzi, Luciano Pavarotti, Giuseppe Di Stefano, and Roberto Alagna.

Selected music

Nel palazzo del Conte di Narval, set design for La forza d'amore act 2 (1897).

Songs

  • "Ave Maria".
  • "Baciami".
  • "Black Magic", words by C. D. Isaacson.
  • "Brezza marina", barcarolle for pianoforte.
  • "Capriccioso in re" for pianoforte.
  • "La Cigarette du Paradis" (Song of the Cigarette), words in English by R. Lorfin.[b]
  • "Colombetta: Serenata veneziana" (Columbine: a Venetian serenade).
  • "Come buy", from Shakespeare's The Winter's Tale.
  • "The Conscientious Deacon", words by V. Lindsay.
  • "Eternal Light!" (Lux eterna)
  • "Fair Dreams" (Les beaux rêves); words by Axel, English version by P. C. Warren.
  • "A Fly Song", tragicomical encore ditty, etc., words by J. D. Wells.
  • Four French Songs. (1915)
  • Four Songs on texts by Rabindranath Tagore, 1920, published by Oliver Ditson
  1. Forget the Night
  2. In the Flower Garden
  3. The Song of Ahez the Pale
  4. When I go alone
  • "Gloria". Duet for soprano and alto, words by M. C. Schuyler.
  • "Going to War".
  • "Good Night my Love".
Lolita
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  • Lolita. (1892)
  • "Mariolina: a love call" (c. 1934).* "Inno all' amore" (Glory to Love). (1904)
  • "Mal d'amore".
  • "Torna amore".
  • Two Encore Songs
  1. "My mother bids me spend my smiles", words by T. Hood.
  2. "Venus' runaway", words by B. Jonson.

Piano music

  • Galanteries, causeries pour piano.

Notes

  1. ^ Buzzi-Peccia set some of her poetry to music, and Caruso sang them in concert.
  2. ^ R. Lorfin is a pseudonym of American poet Lorraine Noel Finley.[6]

References

  1. ^ a b c d Donati, Licia (1972). "Arturo Buzzi". Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani (in Italian). Retrieved 2015-01-24 – via Treccani.it.
  2. ISBN 978-0-226-73340-1
    .
  3. ^ W. S. B. Mathews, ed. (May–October 1898). "Noteworthy Personalities: Some Interesting Italian Autographs". Music. XIV: 305–306.
  4. ^ Cooke, James F. (1921). "Mme. Alma Gluck". Great Singers on the Art of Singing. Theo. Presser Company. p. 184.
  5. ISBN 978-0-674-62734-5
    .
  6. ^ Catalog of Copyright Entries: Musical compositions. Library of Congress, Copyright Office. 1941. p. 1378.

External links

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