Previous posts for September 17th are here: Hank Williams (2019, Saverio Mercadante (2020), Charles Tomlinson Griffes (2021), Charles Tomlinson Griffes (2022), and Charles Tomlinson Griffes (2023)
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Saverio Mercadante (bapt. 17 September 1795 – 17 December 1870) was an Italian composer, particularly of operas.
Life Lesson
In the decades after his death in Naples in 1870, his output was largely forgotten, but it has been occasionally revived and recorded since World War II. -- Wikipedia
This blog is not the place to diagnose
Why Mercadante operas came so close
To greatness, yet revivals are so few.
That’s a question critics might pursue.
Contemporaries found his works attractive.
And really that’s what counts while one is active;
For after one has shed this mortal coil
It truly doesn’t matter, nor will spoil
The pleasure that you had, and that you gave,
Before your pen was silenced by the grave.
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