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[Tamburini] Pacini, Giovanni. (1796 - 1867) & Tamburini, Antonio. (1800 - 1876). Autograph Musical Quotations. An impressive detailed AMQS from the great Italian baritone Antonio Tamburini, creator of numerous Bellini and Donizetti roles. Five measures penned on hand-ruled paper, identified at the beginning as a "Largo" passage from Lucia di Lammermoor ("Nella Lucia, Donizetti"), Enrico's climactic words from Act II "Ah e' mio sangue l'ho tradita / ella sta fra morte e vita" ["Ah! She is my own blood! I have betrayed her! She is poised between life and death!"], signed at the conclusion "Alla Contessa Anna Malvezzi / Antonio Tamburini / Lucca 14 Settembre 1842." With a printed illustratration of a lidded antique vase affixed lower left, inscribed (presumably by Malvezzi) "Vase offert a Tamburini." The verso with an eight-measure AMQS in the hand of the important Italian composer Giovanni Pacini, inscribed with a long inscription referencing "the celebrated artist singer Signor Antonio Tamburini" and gifting the page to the "Noblewoman" "Signora Contessa Malvezzi / Lucca 155 Sett. 1842." 27 x 18 cm. Very fine. From the album of Anna Maria Malvezzi.
In 1829, Tamburini created the role of Riccardo Cuor di Leone in Pacini's "Il Talisamno."
Tamburini "was a singularly handsome man; his voice was rich, sweet, extensive and equal – ranging from F toF#, two perfect octaves – and in every part of it entirely under control. His execution has never been exceeded...No one since himself has so thoroughly combined grandeur, accent, florid embellishment and solidity." (Henry Chorley, "Thirty Years' Musical Recollections," 1862).
From 1842, Pacini was director of the Musical Institute of Lucca. Hugely prolific, by 1830 Pacini had produced more than 40 operas in 16 years, yet faced by stiff competition from Bellini and Donizetti took a strategic decision and retired to Viareggio, where he set up a music school and stopped writing operas. In 1839, he re-emerged, enjoying an Indian summer with the triumph in Naples of Saffo, arguably his masterpiece and displaying a more individual, mature style. Further successes followed: La fidanzata corsa, Medea and, in 1843, Maria regina d’Inghilterra (Opera Rara ORC15). The success of the latter saw the composer crowned on stage with laurels and accompanied after the second performance by military bands and lighted torches to the cries of ’Viva Pacini’. In later years he was eclipsed by Verdi, his last real success being Il saltimbanco (1858).
In 1829, Tamburini created the role of Riccardo Cuor di Leone in Pacini's "Il Talisamno."
Tamburini "was a singularly handsome man; his voice was rich, sweet, extensive and equal – ranging from F toF#, two perfect octaves – and in every part of it entirely under control. His execution has never been exceeded...No one since himself has so thoroughly combined grandeur, accent, florid embellishment and solidity." (Henry Chorley, "Thirty Years' Musical Recollections," 1862).
From 1842, Pacini was director of the Musical Institute of Lucca. Hugely prolific, by 1830 Pacini had produced more than 40 operas in 16 years, yet faced by stiff competition from Bellini and Donizetti took a strategic decision and retired to Viareggio, where he set up a music school and stopped writing operas. In 1839, he re-emerged, enjoying an Indian summer with the triumph in Naples of Saffo, arguably his masterpiece and displaying a more individual, mature style. Further successes followed: La fidanzata corsa, Medea and, in 1843, Maria regina d’Inghilterra (Opera Rara ORC15). The success of the latter saw the composer crowned on stage with laurels and accompanied after the second performance by military bands and lighted torches to the cries of ’Viva Pacini’. In later years he was eclipsed by Verdi, his last real success being Il saltimbanco (1858).
[Tamburini] Pacini, Giovanni. (1796 - 1867) & Tamburini, Antonio. (1800 - 1876). Autograph Musical Quotations. An impressive detailed AMQS from the great Italian baritone Antonio Tamburini, creator of numerous Bellini and Donizetti roles. Five measures penned on hand-ruled paper, identified at the beginning as a "Largo" passage from Lucia di Lammermoor ("Nella Lucia, Donizetti"), Enrico's climactic words from Act II "Ah e' mio sangue l'ho tradita / ella sta fra morte e vita" ["Ah! She is my own blood! I have betrayed her! She is poised between life and death!"], signed at the conclusion "Alla Contessa Anna Malvezzi / Antonio Tamburini / Lucca 14 Settembre 1842." With a printed illustratration of a lidded antique vase affixed lower left, inscribed (presumably by Malvezzi) "Vase offert a Tamburini." The verso with an eight-measure AMQS in the hand of the important Italian composer Giovanni Pacini, inscribed with a long inscription referencing "the celebrated artist singer Signor Antonio Tamburini" and gifting the page to the "Noblewoman" "Signora Contessa Malvezzi / Lucca 155 Sett. 1842." 27 x 18 cm. Very fine. From the album of Anna Maria Malvezzi.
In 1829, Tamburini created the role of Riccardo Cuor di Leone in Pacini's "Il Talisamno."
Tamburini "was a singularly handsome man; his voice was rich, sweet, extensive and equal – ranging from F toF#, two perfect octaves – and in every part of it entirely under control. His execution has never been exceeded...No one since himself has so thoroughly combined grandeur, accent, florid embellishment and solidity." (Henry Chorley, "Thirty Years' Musical Recollections," 1862).
From 1842, Pacini was director of the Musical Institute of Lucca. Hugely prolific, by 1830 Pacini had produced more than 40 operas in 16 years, yet faced by stiff competition from Bellini and Donizetti took a strategic decision and retired to Viareggio, where he set up a music school and stopped writing operas. In 1839, he re-emerged, enjoying an Indian summer with the triumph in Naples of Saffo, arguably his masterpiece and displaying a more individual, mature style. Further successes followed: La fidanzata corsa, Medea and, in 1843, Maria regina d’Inghilterra (Opera Rara ORC15). The success of the latter saw the composer crowned on stage with laurels and accompanied after the second performance by military bands and lighted torches to the cries of ’Viva Pacini’. In later years he was eclipsed by Verdi, his last real success being Il saltimbanco (1858).
In 1829, Tamburini created the role of Riccardo Cuor di Leone in Pacini's "Il Talisamno."
Tamburini "was a singularly handsome man; his voice was rich, sweet, extensive and equal – ranging from F toF#, two perfect octaves – and in every part of it entirely under control. His execution has never been exceeded...No one since himself has so thoroughly combined grandeur, accent, florid embellishment and solidity." (Henry Chorley, "Thirty Years' Musical Recollections," 1862).
From 1842, Pacini was director of the Musical Institute of Lucca. Hugely prolific, by 1830 Pacini had produced more than 40 operas in 16 years, yet faced by stiff competition from Bellini and Donizetti took a strategic decision and retired to Viareggio, where he set up a music school and stopped writing operas. In 1839, he re-emerged, enjoying an Indian summer with the triumph in Naples of Saffo, arguably his masterpiece and displaying a more individual, mature style. Further successes followed: La fidanzata corsa, Medea and, in 1843, Maria regina d’Inghilterra (Opera Rara ORC15). The success of the latter saw the composer crowned on stage with laurels and accompanied after the second performance by military bands and lighted torches to the cries of ’Viva Pacini’. In later years he was eclipsed by Verdi, his last real success being Il saltimbanco (1858).