Francesco Paolo Tosti’ biographic adventure begins from Ortona,
hearth of the abruzzese cost on the 9 of
April 1846. He lived exactly 70 years in Ortona, Napoli,
Londra, Milano and Rome as the protagonist of the european musical life.
Francesco Paolo Tosti understood that was unusefull to write
melodrama because there were lots of other Italian writers which invented them such as Verdi, Puccini, Leoncavallo, Mascagni... so he did
“
romanza da salotto “ which at the time was new and trendy. He wrote a lot and
very well.
He teaches to sing to big artists in London at Covent Garden. He had also an elegant voice of light tenor and
could sing and play for hours in the musical evenings of London Aristocracy.
In London he could earn a big prestige, in fact he became a
teacher of the most prestigious school like Royal College of Music and Royal
Academy of Music. Puccini, Mascagni and Leoncavallo asked him to introduce them in the royal English Court. For all this, there is a rich amount of letters and pieces of magazine in the Museum in Ortona.
Francesco Paolo Tosti died in 1916, in the middle of the Great War that would
sweep all of a sudden the world in which the musician had tailored his place. The cinema and the
radio would soon also completely changed the habits of Europeans, setting new
costumes for social gatherings. The romance of Tosti moved easily from
the living room to the aristocratic concert halls and to the disk and the attention on the Tosti' Romanza da salotto never changed.
We recently went to the National Museum Tostiano in Ortona to
celebrate and see a film about the
life of our Great Author
Posted by students from classrooms the third D and F
images made with the program "Illustrator"
images made with the program "Illustrator"
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