Re: [mascagni-interest] Iris score ?

[Erik Bruchez]

I can only judge by the Pensiero, the full orchestral score of I
Rantzau and his early Pater Noster, but Mascagni was usually neater
than what we see here (some crescendo lines here are really not
straight, for example). Also, it looks like many stems are positioned
here on the right of the notes when going down, which I don't see in
any of those other manuscripts. Certainly as you say there would be at
least one page correctly signed! On the other hand the shape of the
letters is very close to what we see in the Pensiero, for example. All
in all I now doubt very much that it is from his hand.
I still haven't received an answer from the seller, although he most
likely did get my email since he fixed the incorrect "Piero" in the
listing.
-Erik

John Mucci wrote:

> 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.
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