Giovane Scuola

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Giovane Scuola ( Italian for "Young School") is a group of Italian composers around 1900 who wrote mainly operas .

They followed Giuseppe Verdi , who had dominated Italian opera for many years, but were more oriented towards French ( Jules Massenet ) or German ( Richard Wagner ) models. Some were close to the verismo movement, which was perceived internationally as a renewal of Italian opera. The verism in literature gave the opera valuable impulses, especially with regard to the libretto design, dramaturgy and choice of material.

To Giovane Scuola composers are Alfredo Catalani ( Loreley , 1890; La Wally , 1892), Francesco Cilea ( L'Arlesiana , 1897; Adriana Lecouvreur , 1902), Alberto Franchetti ( Cristoforo Colombo , 1892; Germania , 1902), Umberto Giordano ( Andrea Chénier , 1896; Fedora , 1898), Ruggero Leoncavallo ( Pagliacci , 1892), Pietro Mascagni ( Cavalleria rusticana , 1890) and Giacomo Puccini ( Tosca , 1900). The somewhat younger Don Lorenzo Perosi ( La risurrezione di Cristo , 1898), who composed mainly sacred music, is also included.

The Giovane Scuola as a renewing movement in Italian music was replaced before the First World War by the Generazione dell'Ottanta , which devoted itself only to the margins of opera (while Puccini was still successful) and to which the composers Ildebrando Pizzetti , Gian Francesco Malipiero , Ottorino Respighi and Alfredo Casella belong.

literature

  • Rubens Tedeschi: Addio, fiorito asil: il melodramma italiano da Rossini al verismo, Edizione studio tesi, Pordenone 1992, p. 53ff. ISBN 88-7692-342-X