Pietro Mascagni

✶December 7, 1863

†August 2, 1945

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About their life

Pietro Mascagni was an Italian composer primarily known for his operas. His 1890 masterpiece Cavalleria rusticana caused one of the greatest sensations in opera history and single-handedly ushered in the Verismo movement in Italian dramatic music. While it was often held that Mascagni, like Ruggero Leoncavallo, was a "one-opera man" who could never repeat his first success, L'amico Fritz and Iris have remained in the repertoire in Europe since their premieres.

Italian composer (1863–1945)

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Biography from the article Pietro Mascagni on the English Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.