{"id":2754,"date":"2018-06-13T17:13:17","date_gmt":"2018-06-13T17:13:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ripm.org\/cnc\/?p=2754"},"modified":"2018-06-13T17:13:17","modified_gmt":"2018-06-13T17:13:17","slug":"leoncavallo-and-montemezzi-as-seen-by-viafora-in-musical-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cnc.ripm.org\/?p=2754","title":{"rendered":"Leoncavallo and Montemezzi as Seen by Viafora&nbsp;<br\/>in <i>Musical America<\/i>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-indent: 2em;\">Last week, we featured Gianni Viafora\u2019s caricatures of Puccini and of Mascagni from the artist\u2019s \u201cGallery of Celebrities\u201d in <em>Musical America<\/em>. Today we showcase his drawings of two more Italian composers, Ruggiero Leoncavallo and Italo Montemezzi. We also include several texts about the composers from <em>Musical America<\/em>, a remarkable, though little-explored documentary resource, and include links to articles sampled below! Read a section of a remarkable review of Montemezzi\u2019s now-rarely performed opera, <em>L&#8217;amore Dei Tre Re<\/em>, \u201cone of the most deeply affecting and full-blooded scores since Wagner,\u201d and an absolutely scathing obituary of Leoncavallo, a man whose passing was, for one writer, \u201cof no significance to music.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-2565 \" src=\"http:\/\/www.ripm.org\/cnc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Leoncavallo-FINAL.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"567\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.cnc.ripm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Leoncavallo-FINAL.jpg 449w, https:\/\/www.cnc.ripm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Leoncavallo-FINAL-211x300.jpg 211w, https:\/\/www.cnc.ripm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Leoncavallo-FINAL-162x230.jpg 162w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-2567\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ripm.org\/cnc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Photo-wCaption-247x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"243\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.cnc.ripm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Photo-wCaption-247x300.jpg 247w, https:\/\/www.cnc.ripm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Photo-wCaption-189x230.jpg 189w, https:\/\/www.cnc.ripm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Photo-wCaption.jpg 418w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><br \/>\nRuggiero Leoncavallo<br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 70%;\">Vol. 24 No. 11 (15 July 1916): 7; Vol. 4 No. 9 (14 July 1906): 5.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-2757\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ripm.org\/cnc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Leoncavallo-says.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"477\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.cnc.ripm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Leoncavallo-says.jpg 423w, https:\/\/www.cnc.ripm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Leoncavallo-says-189x300.jpg 189w, https:\/\/www.cnc.ripm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Leoncavallo-says-145x230.jpg 145w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><span style=\"font-size: 8pt;\">Vol. 18 No. 25 (25 October 1913): 3.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/T6eyr9O4xro?rel=0&amp;start=1&amp;end=213\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><span data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" style=\"display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\">\ufeff<\/span><\/iframe><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-2758 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ripm.org\/cnc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Pope-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"452\" height=\"431\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.cnc.ripm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Pope-1.jpg 452w, https:\/\/www.cnc.ripm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Pope-1-300x286.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.cnc.ripm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Pope-1-241x230.jpg 241w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 452px) 100vw, 452px\" \/><span style=\"font-size: 8pt;\">Vol. 4 No.9 (14 July 1906): 10.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-2759 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ripm.org\/cnc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Obit-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"912\" height=\"178\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.cnc.ripm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Obit-1.jpg 912w, https:\/\/www.cnc.ripm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Obit-1-650x127.jpg 650w, https:\/\/www.cnc.ripm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Obit-1-300x59.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.cnc.ripm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Obit-1-540x105.jpg 540w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 912px) 100vw, 912px\" \/><span style=\"font-size: 8pt;\">Vol. 30 No. 16 (16 August 1919): 2.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-indent: 2em;\">\u201c\u2026the demise of Leoncavallo is of no significance to music. So far as he mattered artistically the man might have died a quarter of a century ago.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-indent: 2em;\">Read the entire blistering obituary here: <a href=\"https:\/\/ripm.org\/?page=Leoncavallo_MUM\">Leoncavallo Passes<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-2760 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ripm.org\/cnc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Cari-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"437\" height=\"605\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.cnc.ripm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Cari-2.jpg 437w, https:\/\/www.cnc.ripm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Cari-2-217x300.jpg 217w, https:\/\/www.cnc.ripm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Cari-2-166x230.jpg 166w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 437px) 100vw, 437px\" \/>Another Viafora caricature of Leoncavallo<br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 70%;\">Vol. 18 No. 25 (25 October 1913): 4.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Ajt3Z2CjMC0?rel=0&amp;start=44&amp;end=552\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 18pt;\">*\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0*\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0*<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-2561 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ripm.org\/cnc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Title-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"631\" height=\"240\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.cnc.ripm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Title-1.jpg 631w, https:\/\/www.cnc.ripm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Title-1-300x114.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.cnc.ripm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Title-1-540x205.jpg 540w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 631px) 100vw, 631px\" \/><span style=\"font-size: 8pt;\">Vol. 19 No. 10 (10 January 1914): 3.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-indent: 2em;\">Read a section of this article by clicking here: <a href=\"https:\/\/ripm.org\/?page=Montemezzi_MUM\">Montemezzi &#8220;Success Unequivocal&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-2551 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ripm.org\/cnc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Montemezzi-1-FINAL.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"436\" height=\"595\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.cnc.ripm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Montemezzi-1-FINAL.jpg 436w, https:\/\/www.cnc.ripm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Montemezzi-1-FINAL-220x300.jpg 220w, https:\/\/www.cnc.ripm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Montemezzi-1-FINAL-169x230.jpg 169w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 436px) 100vw, 436px\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-2591\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ripm.org\/cnc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/photo-noCaption-1-1-172x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"172\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.cnc.ripm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/photo-noCaption-1-1-172x300.jpg 172w, https:\/\/www.cnc.ripm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/photo-noCaption-1-1-132x230.jpg 132w, https:\/\/www.cnc.ripm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/photo-noCaption-1-1.jpg 253w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 172px) 100vw, 172px\" \/><br \/>\nItalo Montemezzi<br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 70%;\">Vol. 24 No. 23 (7 October 1916): 7; Vol. 19 No. 10 (10 January 1914): 3.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-2560 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ripm.org\/cnc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Anecdote-1-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"332\" height=\"394\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.cnc.ripm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Anecdote-1-1.jpg 332w, https:\/\/www.cnc.ripm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Anecdote-1-1-253x300.jpg 253w, https:\/\/www.cnc.ripm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Anecdote-1-1-194x230.jpg 194w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 332px) 100vw, 332px\" \/><span style=\"font-size: 8.0pt;\">&#8220;Let Simplicity Be the Composer&#8217;s Constant Objective, Adjures Italo Montemezzi,&#8221; Vol. 31 No. 4 (22 November 1919): 3.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/FVC4oNQEPFw?rel=0&amp;start=65&amp;end=194\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><span data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" style=\"display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\">\ufeff<\/span><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-2763 \" src=\"http:\/\/www.ripm.org\/cnc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Genius-Indupitable-3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"375\" height=\"641\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.cnc.ripm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Genius-Indupitable-3.jpg 425w, https:\/\/www.cnc.ripm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Genius-Indupitable-3-415x710.jpg 415w, https:\/\/www.cnc.ripm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Genius-Indupitable-3-175x300.jpg 175w, https:\/\/www.cnc.ripm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Genius-Indupitable-3-134x230.jpg 134w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 375px) 100vw, 375px\" \/><span style=\"font-size: 8pt;\">Vol. 19 No. 10 (10 January 1914): 4.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-2765 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ripm.org\/cnc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Monte-and-Viafora-1.2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"624\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.cnc.ripm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Monte-and-Viafora-1.2.jpg 624w, https:\/\/www.cnc.ripm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Monte-and-Viafora-1.2-300x256.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.cnc.ripm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Monte-and-Viafora-1.2-269x230.jpg 269w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 624px) 100vw, 624px\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-2766 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ripm.org\/cnc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Monte-and-Viafora-text-1.2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"622\" height=\"52\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.cnc.ripm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Monte-and-Viafora-text-1.2.jpg 622w, https:\/\/www.cnc.ripm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Monte-and-Viafora-text-1.2-300x25.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.cnc.ripm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Monte-and-Viafora-text-1.2-540x45.jpg 540w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 622px) 100vw, 622px\" \/>A photograph of Montemezzi (left; in red) and Viafora (right; in red)<br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 70%;\">Vol. 31 No. 4 (22 November 1919): 3.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><u>RIPM search tip<\/u>: For more on Viafora and his drawings in\u00a0<em>Musical America,\u00a0<\/em>access the RIPM Preservation Series: European and North American Music Periodicals, as fill in the following fields: Periodical:\u00a0<em>Musical America\u00a0<\/em>(New York, 1898-1899, 1905-1922 [-1964]), Keyword(s): Viafora.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>Click\u00a0<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><a style=\"color: #ff0000;\" href=\"http:\/\/ripm.org\/?page=cncsubscribe\">here<\/a>\u00a0<\/span>to\u00a0subscribe to RIPM\u2019s\u00a0<i>Curios, News, and Chronicles!\u00a0<\/i><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>When is our next posting?\u00a0To find out, follow us on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RIPMCenter\">Twitter<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/RIPMCenter\/\">Facebook<\/a>!<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">***<\/p>\n<p>RIPM is an international non-profit organization preserving and providing access to music periodicals published in more than twenty countries between approximately 1760 and 1966, from Bach to Bernstein.\u00a0 Functioning under the auspices of the International Musicological Society, and the International Association of Music Libraries, Archives, and Documentation Centres, RIPM produces four electronic publications: Retrospective Index to Music Periodicals, Retrospective Index to Music Periodicals with Full Text, RIPM European and North American Music Periodicals (Preservation Series), and RIPM Jazz Periodicals (Preservation Series, forthcoming).<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/cts.vresp.com\/c\/?RIPMConsortiumLtd.\/606886bac9\/3fdca83fa7\/d715bbc74f\">WWW.RIPM.ORG<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last week, we featured Gianni Viafora\u2019s caricatures of Puccini and of Mascagni from the artist\u2019s \u201cGallery of Celebrities\u201d in Musical America. Today we showcase his drawings of two more Italian composers, Ruggiero Leoncavallo and Italo Montemezzi. We also include several texts about the composers from Musical America, a remarkable, though little-explored documentary resource, and include [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31,30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2754","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-curioschronicles","category-iow"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cnc.ripm.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2754","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cnc.ripm.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cnc.ripm.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cnc.ripm.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cnc.ripm.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2754"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/www.cnc.ripm.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2754\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2790,"href":"https:\/\/www.cnc.ripm.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2754\/revisions\/2790"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cnc.ripm.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2754"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cnc.ripm.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2754"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cnc.ripm.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2754"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}