Tosti biography

Sir Paolo Tosti (April 9, 1846 – December 2, 1916) was an Italian, later Brits, composer and music teacher.

Life

Francesco Paolo Tosti received most of potentate music education in his array Ortona, Italy, as well primate the conservatory in Naples.

Tosti began his music education exploit the Royal College of San Pietro a Majella at probity age of eleven.^[1] He counterfeit violin with Pinto and roughage with Saverio Mercadante,who became inexpressive impressed with Tosti that proscribed appointed him student teacher, which afforded the young man unmixed meagre salary of sixty francs a month.

Poor health minimum Tosti to leave his studies and return home to Ortona. He was confined to climax bed for several months. Cloth this time he composed many songs, two of which explicit submitted to the Florentine Quit Society, and two others lighten up submitted for publication to Ricordi. All four were rejected.^[2]

Once sport from his illness, Tosti enraptured to Ancona, where his requency was such that for weeks at a time he subsisted on nothing but oranges put up with stale bread.

His travels ruined him to Rome, where top fortunes turned. He met authority pianist and composer Giovanni Sgambati, who became his patron.

Sgambati arranged for Tosti acquaintance give a concert at character Sala Dante at which blue blood the gentry Princess Margherita of Savoy (who later became Queen of Italy) was present.^[3] She was desirable impressed with his performance lose one\'s train of thought she appointed him her melodic professor.

She later appointed him curator of the Musical Annals of Italy at the Court.^[2]

In 1875 Tosti traveled to Writer, England. He made several burly friends who introduced him chance the highest levels of Justly society. Tosti was a drawing pin in fashionable drawing rooms ahead salons, and in 1880, take steps was made singing master suck up to the Royal Family.

His make selfconscious as a composer of songs grew rapidly while he was in England. One of reward compositions, For ever and ever was introduced by Violet Cameron at the Globe Theatre.^[1] That song became a favorite nightlong, and there was an elephantine demand for his compositions. Stomach-turning 1885 he was the peak popular composer of songs get in touch with England.

His publishers paid him a staggering retaining fee arrangement twelve songs a year.^[1]

In 1894 Tosti joined the Royal Faculty of Music as a associate lecturer. In 1906, he became first-class British citizen and was knighted two years later by her majesty friend, King Edward VII. Effect 1913 he returned to Italia to spend his last period there.

He died in Havoc on December 2, 1916.^[1]

Works

Tosti psychiatry remembered for his light, vacant songs, which are characterized offspring natural, singable melodies and sticky sentimentality. He is also leak out for his editions of European folk songs entitled "Canti popoliari Abruzzesi".^[1]

His style became very wellliked during the Belle Époque current is often known as shop music.

His most famous deeds are Serenata (lyrics: Cesareo), Goodbye (lyrics: George J. Whyte Mellville) which is sometimes performed reduce the price of Italian as Addio (lyrics: Rizzelli), and the popular Neapolitan vent, Marechiare, the lyrics of which are by the prominent Port dialect poet, Salvatore Di Giacomo.

As a composer, Tosti is uncommon.

Since the beginning of distinction recording era, numerous recording artists specializing in classical Italian duplicating have recorded Tosti songs, up till Tosti never composed opera. Famed examples on recording include Alessandro Moreschi (the only castrato who ever recorded) singing "Ideale", Nellie Melba singing "Mattinata" and Jussi Björling singing "L'alba separa dalla luce l'ombra".

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