Saverio Mercadante
Italian composer
Giuseppe Saverio Raffaele Mercadante (baptised 17 September 1795 – 17 December 1870) was an Italian composer, particularly of operas. While Mercadante may not have retained the international celebrity of Vincenzo Bellini, Gaetano Donizetti or Gioachino Rossini beyond his own lifetime, he composed as prolifically as any of them, and his development of operatic structures, melodic styles and orchestration contributed significantly to the foundations upon which Giuseppe Verdi built his dramatic technique.
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Works
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- Clarinet Concerto in B-flat major
- Clarinet Concerto in E-flat major
- Concerto per corno e orchestra da camera
- Don Chisciotte alle nozze di Gamaccio
- Elena da Feltre
- Flute Concerto in D major
- Flute Concerto in E major
- Flute Concerto in E minor
- Flute Concerto no. 4 in G major
- Il bravo
- Il giuramento
- Le sette ultime parole di Nostro Signore sulla croce
- Soirées italiennes
- Soirées italiennes, S. 411
Box sets & recent recordings
- Mercadante: Virginia — Saverio Mercadante, Susan Patterson, Stefano Antonucci, Paul Charles Clarke, Charles Castronovo, Andrew Foster-Williams, London Philharmonic Orchestra, Mark Le Brocq, Maurizio Benini, Katherine Manley (2009) box set · 42 tracks Spotify
- Mercadante: Flute Concertos, Vol. 2 — Saverio Mercadante, Patrick Gallois, Czech Philharmonic Chamber Orchestra (2018) box set · 40 tracks Spotify
Box sets & recent releases via Spotify — surfaced automatically, not editorial picks.