Postcard Photograph With Autograph Signature ("P. Mascagni") With Flourish, Dated "Livorno 21. Ix. [1]903." Mascagni, Pietro 1863-1945 Autographs & Manuscripts,New Arrivals

The composer is depicted three-quarter length, seated. From the Italian studio of Belforte in Livorno (the town of Mascagni's birth), with printed identification in red ink to blank lower margin. Slightly worn; minor cracking to mid-right portion. "Masacagni was an Italian composer primarily known for his operas. His 1890 masterpiece Cavalleria rusticana caused one of the greatest sensations in opera history and single-handedly ushered in the Verismo movement in Italian dramatic music. While it was often held that Mascagni, like Ruggero Leoncavallo, was a "one-opera man" who could never repeat his first success, L'amico Fritz and Iris have remained in the repertoire in Europe (especially Italy) since their premieres. [He] wrote fifteen operas, an operetta, several orchestral and vocal works, and also songs and piano music. He enjoyed immense success during his lifetime, both as a composer and conductor of his own and other people's music and created a variety of styles in his operas." Wikipedia.