Continuing
my exploration in the collection of musical scores, I felt important and
perhaps curious, give a thought, a hope, a witness to the composer Romeo Monza Gerosa,
whose existence, not very long, seems today to be returned to the memory and
probably , Rediscovered.
Here, I
present a scan image of the musical score "Con lei ...", Gerosa’s
mazurka, signed autograph pen in the upper right, by the same artist.
(From
Author’s private collection)
I
can already represent a valuable document of his time, demonstrating the importance
that the musician Lombard gave this score.
Gerosa,
curiously, it could, for reasons that explain later, approached the famous
citizen of Padoa Arrigo Boito.
At
Monza, and it is worth remembering, there has been a street dedicated to him,
and this says a whole about the city's crown iron has devoted to this
illustrious fellow, estimator of the great composer and bussetano Parma:
Giuseppe Verdi.
This
curious musical score manuscript that, from my not professional studies, I was
able to detect, by title:
Sempre Bionda !
mazurka di
Amoroso Rege
violino II
(From
Author’s private collection)
The
title denotes a cheerful character and youthness, with that exclamation point
that gives emphasis to this mazurka that, in just two facades, gives us joy in
every joke!
The
most curious, sarcastic, humorous thing of the author (Amoroso
Rege), this pseudonym makes it a good idea about the relationship
(Scapigliatura or not) for the author to Boito (he used the pseudonym Tobia
Gorrio) and, as you will already have
guessed, is no less than the anagram of Romeo Gerosa.
Another
piece of musical curiosity entering the history of staff? probably, but who has
two first place?
Probably
the 'Arrigo from
The
history of music, as demonstrated by this and other episodes is a whole chain
of connections, as in a large family, where the notes are the bizzarry of
certain members of the same and the staff, the value of reference.
In
a short space, we were able to link the affinity between four composers:
Verdi Boito Gerosa Ponchielli
5 Aprile 2008, by Carlo Lamberti
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carlolamberti@albabarozzi.it