Leoncavallo

Leoncavallo: Life and Works is the first fully documented biography of the beloved and popular composer Ruggiero Leoncavallo (1857-1919), whose credits include Pagliacci and the operatic works Chatterton , Der Roland von Berlin , Zazà, Maïa, Zingari, La bohème , and the incomplete trilogy Crepusculum . Author Konrad Dryden has amassed material from hundreds of unpublished letters and photographs, creating the most complete portrait of the composer to date. This book examines various facets of Le