Italo Montemezzi

Born close to Verona, this Italian opera composer studied executive before pursuing music in the Milan Conservatory. After completing research in 1900, he remained on to educate harmony for any year. Thereafter, nevertheless, he made a full time income solely like a composer, by no means holding another established teaching placement. Toward the finish of his existence, he resided in California (1939 – 1949), after that came back to Italy where he noticed his last functions performed. His greatest functions display dramatic instinct, solid workmanship, appropriate usage of local color, and judicious software of Wagnerian orchestration and tranquility. Like Catalani, he held everything within a normal Italian, voice-centered platform. Although he made up at least eight operas, including Giovanni Gallurese (1905), and also other orchestral and choral functions, he was just able to earn lasting achievement with L’amore di tre re (1913), an opera still persistently effective in the U.S. It displays considerable Wagnerian impact; parallels could be attracted between its storyline which of Tristan und Isolde. Never to diminish the true power of his greatest functions, some possess criticized Montemezzi for missing a truly specific compositional personality. Certainly, by deferring to Wagner and sometimes actually Strauss, Montemezzi may possess unknowingly let additional composers’ voices sing louder than his personal.