Fine Autograph Letters and Manuscripts from a Distinguished Private Collection: Part II | Music, Americana, English and Continental Literature

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MASCAGNI, PIETRO. FINE CABINET PHOTOGRAPH SIGNED AND INSCRIBED WITH AN AUTOGRAPH MUSICAL QUOTATION

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Description

  • Fine cabinet photograph signed and inscribed with an autograph musical quotation (“Piccina bionda” from Zanetto), showing the young composer, full-face, wearing a suit and a large striped tie
by G. Zaccaria of Florence, 6 1/2 x 4 1/2 inches, Florence, 5 July 1896

Catalogue Note

Mascagni’s Zanetto was premiered in Pesaro in 1896 and played throughout Italy in that year. It marked a return to the one-act format of Mascagni’s great success Cavalleria rusticana (1890).