Paolo Litta (7 May 1871, Stockholm – 8 May 1931, Fiesole) was an Italian composer. He was of mixed Italian and Swedish heritage. He was married to the Italian opera singer, Ida Isori, and dedicated the work, Le Lac d’Amour, to her. Litta was known for having a dispute with Valentine de Saint-Point on the possibility that some ideas in de Saint-Point's La Métachorie were copied from his work, la Déesse Nue. Relatively unknown even in Italian records such as the supplementary material for Dizionario Universale dei Musicisti by Carlo Schmidl, La Morte di Cleopatra was his noticeable work to the public until his death.
Compositions
- La Déesse Nue (in addition to a separate book describing the musical work)
- Le Lac d'Amour
- La Morte di Cleopatra
- Der Tod als Fiedler
Notes
- As stated by Richard Batka, Paolo Litta described Ida Isori and her role as a bel canto singer in a form of proses by Gothe: Celle-ci a beaucoup appris; Elle nous enseignera à son tour les secrets de son art (She learned a lot; She will in turn teach us the secrets of her art).
Further reading
- "Paolo Litta (Konzert-Trilogie: Der Minne-See, Die entschleierte Göttin, Der Tod als Fiedler)" (PDF). Genuin.
References
- "(2015) XXII Convegno annuale SIdM - Perugia". Società Italiana di Musicologia. 23 July 2020.
- Batka, Richard (1913). L'Aria Ancienne : Ida Isori et son Art du Bel-Canto (in French). Paris: Costallat & Cie. p. 26.
- Satie the Composer (Music in the 20th Century). Cambridge University Press. 1990. p. 120. ISBN 978-0521350372.
- Schmidl, Carlo (1937). Supplemento al Dizionario Universale dei Musicisti (in Italian). Sonzogno. p. 478.