Roger Flury
Mon, 01 Dec 2003 15:34:20 -0800
Hi Erik & friends, This is surely a violin/piano arrangement of melodies from the opera - a potpourri or fantasia - which is probably no more than a few pages long. The copy is very neat as manuscripts go, so it is obviously a finished piece. Which begs the question, why would Mascagni bother to do that? These sorts of arrangements were usually done by music hacks working for Ricordi. An exciting development would be if this were Mascagni's adaptation of the music from Iris for the silent movie!!! Best wishes Roger National Library of New Zealand P.O. Box 1467 Wellington New Zealand. email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Ph: (+64) 4 474 3039 Fax: (+64) 4 474 3035 www.natlib.govt.nz http://cadence.natlib.govt.nz http://www.iaml.info >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2/12/03 10:49:40 >>> Dear list, I just found out that there is a manuscript score of Iris, supposedly of Mascagni's own hand, for sale on eBay: http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=2577485541&category=2201 The starting bid is $9,900. Does anyone know whether this could be *the* original manuscript orchestral score? There seems to be a part for violin, and one for piano (which is odd). It is not clear to me that this is an original, and there is no information about the number of pages and the parts included. I have contacted the seller but so far I have had no reply. This is where I would like to have a Mascagni Foundation able to acquire such items! I certainly couldn't afford something like this myself. -Erik _______________________________________________ mascagni-interest mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.alphanet.ch/mailman/listinfo/mascagni-interest _______________________________________________ mascagni-interest mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.alphanet.ch/mailman/listinfo/mascagni-interest