Angelo Mascheroni (1855 in Bergamo, Italy – 1905) was a pianist composer, conductor, and music teacher, brother of the conductor

Edoardo Mascheroni Edoardo Mascheroni (born Milan, 4 September 1852 – died Valganna, 4 March 1941) was an Italian composer and conductor. He is remembered for conducting the world premiere of Giuseppe Verdi's ''Falstaff''; he also composed two operas of his ow ...

. He is most famous for his "Eternamente" for voice and violin, sung by

Enrico Caruso Enrico Caruso (, , ; 25 February 1873 – 2 August 1921) was an Italian operatic first lyrical tenor then dramatic tenor. He sang to great acclaim at the major opera houses of Europe and the Americas, appearing in a wide variety of roles (74) ...

; his two-act opera ''Il mal d'amore'', with a libretto by

Ferdinando Fontana Ferdinando Fontana (30 January 1850 – 10 May 1919) was an Italian journalist, dramatist, and poet. He is best known today for having written the libretti of the first two operas by Giacomo Puccini – ''Le Villi'' and '' Edgar''. Biography ...

, was written in 1898. Among his pupils was Spyridon Samaras.Estudiante Ensemble Bergamo, Presentazione del CD dedicato agli auto di mandolin a Bergamo (Music concert program)
He studied music at the Conservatoire of his native city under the guidance of Alessandro Nini, with such success that at the age of nineteen he became conductor of an operatic company. With them he made the tour of Italy, France and Spain. Later Mascheroni spent some years in Greece and Russia and then visited all the cities of importance in North and South America. He spent five years in Paris, perfecting himself in the vocal art at the Paris Conservatoire with Léo Delibes for composition and

Camille Saint-Saëns Charles-Camille Saint-Saëns (; 9 October 183516 December 1921) was a French composer, organist, conductor and pianist of the Romantic music, Romantic era. His best-known works include Introduction and Rondo Capriccioso (1863), the Piano C ...

for piano; a few years later he made a name in England and America.Philip J. Bone, The Guitar and Mandolin, biographies of celebrated players and composers for these instruments, London: Schott and Co., 1914.
/ref> When Mascheroni arrived in London, unknown, he experienced great difficulty in obtaining a few guineas for his song ''For all eternity''; but this copyright when sold by public auction a few years later realized as many thousand guineas — the record price paid for a musical copyright. Other of his successful vocal compositions are : ''Woodland serenade, with mandolin obbligato'', published in 1892, and ''Ave Maria'', composed at Madame Patti's Welsh castle. Mascheroni was the author of several arrangements and original compositions for mandolin and piano, the principal being: ''On the banks of the Rhine''; ''Tarantella'', written in 1894, published by

Augener Augener & Co. was a music-publishing business in London, established by George Augener (1830–1915), originally "Georg", a German national born in Fechenheim near Frankfurt am Main, who had previously been an apprentice with André's publishing hou ...

, London; ''Fantasia on Faust'' (Gounod), and others of a like nature. Mascheroni also wrote obbligatos for the mandolin to several of his vocal compositions, as well as solos and duos for mandolin, with piano accompaniment. Music historian

Philip J. Bone Philip James Bone (29 January 1873 – 17 June 1964) was an English mandolinist and guitar player in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Life Bone was born and died in Luton. He studied guitar and mandolin with G. B. Marchiso at Trinity Col ...

tried to describe the nature of Mascheroni's music, saying, ''Mascheroni struck out the golden mean between the German and Italian schools and his compositions combine the solidity and scholarly attainments of the German, with the grace, beauty and charm of the Italian schools." Bone said that Mascheroni's music was permeated with Italian traditions, with a "beautiful melodic structure, a foundation of sound musicianship upon which the lighter graces and charms of lyric art flourish." Mascheroni had a son who studied the guitar and mandolin under his father, and appeared as a guitar soloist in London in 1902.

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