RE: [mascagni-interest] Iris score ?

[John Mucci]

This seems to be an "Iris Fantasy" arranged by someone in a typical end of 
the century style. It certainly isn't the score to the opera, and isn't in 
Mascagni's hand, from all the examples I've seen.

It seems to be a score and set of parts for piano, violin (maybe two) and 
flute. One of the sheets says -- from what I can see "Fantasia", meaning it 
was a short salon-piece for entertainment in ones home.

It certainly is a curious thing, and would be most interesting to have, but 
I don't think it's worth anything like the money they are asking.

After all, what score to IRIS would begin with this melody, and what score 
other than the vocal score would have a pianoforte?

And I cannot believe Mascagni would have signed his name without "signing 
his name" in his peculiar and idiomatic signature.







John Mucci
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From: Erik Bruchez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Subject: [mascagni-interest] Iris score on eBay
Date: Mon, 01 Dec 2003 13:49:40 -0800
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

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