Giuseppe Anselmi Sings "Un 'aura amorosa," From Mozart's Cosi Fan Tutte 1909 скачать в хорошем качестве

Giuseppe Anselmi Sings "Un 'aura amorosa," From Mozart's Cosi Fan Tutte 1909

Sicilian tenor Giuseppe Anselmi (1876-1929) is a fascinating study. Sent to the Naples Conservatory as a boy of 12, in the late 1880's, to study violin, piano and composition, he learned to sing, it is not certain from whom—if anyone—and was on the road with a touring troupe by age 16. He went on to become famous in central Europe, and was also well known in Poland and St. Petersburg. He had a fair bit of musical training for a singer, and his musicianship and style were everywhere praised. He recorded Mozart and Handel arias, and even recorded one song in Russian. This is an extraordinarily unusual biography for an Italian tenor of the period. Also, the fact that he recorded Mozart in 1909 makes possible an intellectual exercise about Mozart style. He was 33 years old in 1909. He started conservatory at age 12, which would have been in 1888. Let us say that he studied piano and composition history with a professor 60 years of age. That professor's training, if he began his studies at 18, ( a reasonable assumption), would have begun in 1846, a mere 55 years after Mozart's death. I tend to suspect that there was an over-arching memory of musical and stylistic practice that gave our young tenor a rather greater access to the 18th century than we might suspect. I can't prove it, and it is only an intellectual game, but it may in fact give us some interesting indications about styles and their respective authenticities.