Saverio Mercadante is remembered in music for work that changed what came after it.
The record lists Saverio Mercadante as Italian composer.
Saverio Mercadante was born at Altamura in 1795. His recorded nationality is Italy.
The concert hall and the public audience were new in this period; music was beginning to be written for buyers rather than employers.
He worked as composer, musicologist and chapelmaster.
His work is classed as opera.
He performed with Académie des beaux-arts.
Among his best-known works are Virginia, Elisa e Claudio and Il giuramento. What survives in music is rarely what sold best at the time.
That the work came out of Italy shaped it: musical traditions, training institutions and the reach of a recording industry all differ by country.
Saverio Mercadante died in 1870, aged 75. The recordings and scores remain, which is the only durable form a musical life takes.
Achievements
- Notable work: Virginia
- Notable work: Elisa e Claudio
- Notable work: Il giuramento
- Genres: opera
