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At the turn of the last century, DON LORENZO PEROSI (1872-1956) was one of the most famous personalities in all of Italy. He was unquestionably one of the most important composers of sacred music of all time. He was simultaneously Director of the two most important choirs in Italy, that of the Sistine Chapel in Rome and the San Marco in Venice. To coincide with the 50th anniversary of the great composer's death, Leonardo Ciampa has written DON LORENZO PEROSI, the very first biography of the composer ever to appear in the English language. The culmination of intense and passion-filled research, DON LORENZO PEROSI is a turning point in the Perosi canon and promises to garner national and international attention. Also by Leonardo Ciampa: THE TWILIGHT OF BELCANTO
"The vocal music created in Italy during the late 1800s and early 1900s is often considered to be the height of European vocal art forms, and the era when the operatic and choral genres broke their way into mainstream appreciation. One specific composer’s career was paramount to the rise of this movement: Monsignor Don Lorenzo Perosi. At the turn of the twentieth century, his early premieres of choral oratorios and symphonic poems of massive scale thoroughly impressed notable musical colleagues worldwide and quickly received mass adoration and accolades. In addition to these large works, Perosi produced a prolific number of liturgical choral compositions that shaped the sound and style of ...
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