Luigi Denza
Luigi Denza (born February 24, 1846 in Castellammare di Stabia , Campania , † January 26, 1922 in London ) was an Italian composer.
Denza studied composition with Saverio Mercadante and Paolo Serrao at the Naples Conservatory . In 1898 he became professor of singing at the Royal Academy of Music . Denza wrote an opera, Wallenstein , but above all a multitude of songs. The most popular of these was Funiculì, Funiculà (text by Peppino Turco ), the song written in 1880 about the new funicular to Mount Vesuvius . Richard Strauss built the melody into his symphonic Fantasy From Italy six years later as a “folk song” , but was sued by Denza and subsequently had to pay royalties to him.
Web links
- Literature by and about Luigi Denza in the catalog of the German National Library
- Sheet music and audio files by Luigi Denza in the International Music Score Library Project
- Sheet music in the public domain by Luigi Denza in the Choral Public Domain Library - ChoralWiki (English)
Individual evidence
- ^ Mathias Hansen: Richard Strauss: the symphonic seals. Bärenreiter, Kassel 2003, ISBN 3-7618-1468-2 , p. 35 f. ( limited preview in Google Book search).
- ^ International Richard Strauss Society (ed.): Richard Strauss-Blätter: Issues 13-14. 1985, ISSN 0720-9827 , p. 45 ff.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Denza, Luigi |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Italian composer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 24, 1846 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Castellammare di Stabia , Campania |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 26, 1922 |
| Place of death | London |