ALAN MALLACH is a pianist, composer, and independent scholar living in New Jersey. He is the author of Pietro Mascagni and His Operas (Northeastern, 2002).
"The most valuable aspect of this book is the way Mallach brings to
life a group of once-popular composers who--Puccini excepted--have
been consigned to the fringes of today's repertory."--Opera
News
"Superior scholarship."--Opera Journal
"This carefully researched and well-organized study sheds light on
a critical transition period in the history of Italian
opera."--Mary Jane Phillips-Matz, author of Puccini: A Biography
(NUP, 2002)
"From 1890 to the start World War I, Italian composers gave us some
of the most popular operas ever written. Mallach is our perfect
guide through that period as he casts an authoritative,
affectionate, but not un-critical eye over his colorful cast of
composers, placing them in the milieu of post-Verdi Italy, and
charting the complex and often troubled relationships that existed
between composer, publisher, impresario, conductor, librettist and,
indeed, the Italian nation."--Roger Flury, Music Librarian,
National Library of New Zealand and author of Pietro Mascagni; a
bio-biblioraphy (2001)
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