Giuseppe Ferrata: Fmigre Pianist and Composer Tapa dura - 1999

Lanham, Md: Scarecrow Press, 1998. Hardcover. Front free endpaper neatly removed; very sparse foxing to edges; else tight and clean.. Small quarto in dark green cloth; xvii, 189 pages : illustrations, portrait, music ; 23 cm; bibliographical references (pages 153-180) and index. Scarce. "The American career of Giuseppe Ferrata (1865-1928) was a part of the legacy of the influential European émigré musicians who came to the United States in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Born in Gradoli, Italy, Ferrata studied piano with Giovanni Sgambati and Franz Liszt at the Royal Academy of St. Cecilia in Rome. He attained some renown as both a pianist and a composer in his native Italy before immigrating to the United States in 1892. He subsequently held teaching posts at various institutions in the eastern United States. In 1909, he became the first Professor of Piano and Composition at Newcomb College (now part of Tulane University) in New Orleans, where he remained until his death in 1928.… Leer más