''Le baruffe chiozzotte'', Op. 32, is a
concert overture
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by
Leone Sinigaglia
Leone Sinigaglia (14 August 1868 – 16 May 1944) was an Italian composer and mountaineer.
Biography
Born in Turin into an upper-middle-class Jewish family, Sinigaglia studied music at the conservatory of music in Turin with Giovanni Bolzon ...
written in 1907.
It was introduced in
Milan under
Arturo Toscanini
Arturo Toscanini (; ; March 25, 1867January 16, 1957) was an Italian conductor. He was one of the most acclaimed and influential musicians of the late 19th and early 20th century, renowned for his intensity, his perfectionism, his ear for orch ...
's baton in the spring of that year. Based on the comedy ''
Le baruffe chiozzotte
''Le baruffe chiozzotte'' (''Brawling in Chioggia'') is a play by the Italian playwright Carlo Goldoni, first performed at the Teatro San Luca in Venice in January 1762. It deals with the comic struggles between two groups of fishermen in the lag ...
'' by
Carlo Goldoni, it is a spirited work that opens with brilliant subject for full
orchestra. A subsidiary theme, more serene in nature, provides contrast. The second main subject of the work is a folk song, first heard in the
oboe; it is soon taken up by the first
violins. With the quickening of
tempo the music becomes more vivacious, with a chattering figure in the
woodwinds and violins. The folk song returns, as does the initial theme, leading to a brief
coda
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which concludes the work.
References
*David Ewen, ''Encyclopedia of Concert Music''. New York; Hill and Wang, 1959.
1907 compositions
Compositions by Leone Sinigaglia
Concert overtures
Adaptations of works by Carlo Goldoni
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