Giuseppe Pietri

Giuseppe Pietri (born May 6, 1886 in Sant'Ilario, today in Campo nell'Elba , † August 11, 1946 in Milan ) was an Italian composer.

Pietri studied composition with Gaetano Coronato , harmony and counterpoint with Amintore Galli at the Milan Conservatory . After his first opera Calendimaggio , which was premiered in Florence in 1910, Pietri devoted himself primarily to the composition of stage works, in addition to a total of four operas in the veristic tradition, he wrote numerous operettas that, in contrast to his operas, became extremely popular and are still on the Italian repertoire today are found. His merit here is the development of an independent Italian idiom for the operetta, which he drew not least from the subjects of the regional folk theater, from which the books of his works came. He achieved his breakthrough with his first work of the genre, Addio giovinezza , a piece set in the student bohemian of Turin, which was released in Livorno in 1915. The most famous was L'acqua cheta , which premiered in Rome in 1920. The text came from a Tuscan dialect piece by the author Augusto Novelli published in 1908 and brought a romantic comedy to the stage in the Florentine petty bourgeoisie. A single work by Pietri was translated into German, Rompicollo , a play about the Seneser Palio , which premiered in Milan in 1928, was on German repertoire for some time as The Great Race .

Works

• Operas
  • Calendimaggio , libretto: Pietro Gori , Florence 1910
  • Ruy Blas , after Victor Hugo , Bologna 1916
  • Maristella , Naples 1930 (excerpts available on CD from Myto Records, with Rina Gigli and Agostino Lazzari, 1956)
  • Rondine bionda , Livorno 1937
  • La canzone di San Giovanni , Sanremo 1939
• Operettas (selection)
  • Addio giovinezza (“Adieu, Jugend”), libretto: Sandro Camasio, Livorno 1915
  • Acqua cheta (“Still Waters”), libretto: Augusto Novelli, Angelo Nessi , Rome 1920
  • Guarda, guarda la mostarda! , Rome 1923
  • La donna perduta , libretto: Guglielmo Zorzi, Guglielmo Giannini, Rome 1923
  • Primarosa , libretto: Renato Simoni, Milan 1926
  • Rompicollo ("The Great Race"), libretto: Luigi Bonelli and Ferdinando Paolieri, Milan 1928
  • Casa mia, casa mia… , libretto: Augusto Novelli, Angelo Nessi, Rome 1930

literature

• Volker Klotz : Operetta. Portrait and manual of an unheard-of art . Piper, Munich 1991, ISBN 3-492-03040-8 .
• Andrea Sessa:  PIETRI, Giuseppe. In: Raffaele Romanelli (ed.): Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani (DBI). Volume 83:  Piacentini – Pio V. Istituto della Enciclopedia Italiana, Rome 2015.

Web links

• Giuseppe Pietri in the Internet Movie Database (English)