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Paolo Litta

Paolo Litta

Italian composer

Paolo Litta (7 May 1871, Stockholm – 8 May 1931, Fiesole[1]) was an Italian composer. He was of mixed Italian and Swedish heritage. He was married to the Italian opera singer, Ida Isori[n 1], and dedicated the work, Le Lac d’Amour, to her. Litta was known for having a dispute with Valentine de Saint-Point on the possibility that some ideas in de Saint-Point's La Métachorie were copied from his work, la Déesse Nue.[3] Relatively unknown even in Italian records such as the supplementary material[4] for Dizionario Universale dei Musicisti by Carlo Schmidl, La Morte di Cleopatra was his noticeable work to the public until his death.

Compositions

  • La Déesse Nue (in addition to a separate book describing the musical work)
  • Le Lac d'Amour
  • La Morte di Cleopatra
  • Der Tod als Fiedler

Notes

  1. [n 1]
    As stated by Richard Batka, Paolo Litta described Ida Isori and her role as a bel canto singer in a form of proses by Gothe: Celle-ci a beaucoup appris; Elle nous enseignera à son tour les secrets de son art (She learned a lot; She will in turn teach us the secrets of her art).[2]

Further reading

  • "Paolo Litta (Konzert-Trilogie: Der Minne-See, Die entschleierte Göttin, Der Tod als Fiedler)" (PDF). Genuin.

References

  1. [1]
    "(2015) XXII Convegno annuale SIdM - Perugia". Società Italiana di Musicologia. 23 July 2020.
  2. [2]
    Batka, Richard (1913). L'Aria Ancienne : Ida Isori et son Art du Bel-Canto (in French). Paris: Costallat & Cie. p. 26.
  3. [3]
    Satie the Composer (Music in the 20th Century). Cambridge University Press. 1990. p. 120. ISBN 978-0521350372.
  4. [4]
    Schmidl, Carlo [in Italian] (1937). Supplemento al Dizionario Universale dei Musicisti (in Italian). Sonzogno. p. 478.
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