Ruggero Leoncavallo
Ruggero Leoncavallo
Ruggero Leoncavallowas an Italian opera composer and librettist. Although he would produce numerous operas and other songs throughout his career it is his two-act work Pagliaccithat remained his lasting contribution, despite attempts to escape the shadow of his greatest success...
NationalityItalian
ProfessionComposer
Date of Birth8 March 1857
CountryItaly
art began deep impression study
This new art made a deep impression on me, and I began to study it ardently.
alter carried parts rewriting
When I need the idea, I can find it immediately. I have a horror of rewriting or deleting; the parts of my composition are carried in my head 'till I can write them down, even to the last note. Then I do not alter a jot.