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Alfredo Catalani
Person · male · Kingdom of Italy · Lucca · born 1854 · died 1893 · recording since 1969
Italian operatic composer (1854-1893)
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Also known as Alferdo Catalani · Catalani · Catalini · 阿弗列多·卡達拉尼
Timeline
10 events▣ Album 7◦ Birth 1† Death 1★ Debut release 1
1850s
1890s
1960s
· Debut release
Debut release: La Wally
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1980s
1990s
2000s
2010s
Biography
English biography403 words · 4 sectionssource: wikipedia-en · licence CC BY-SA 4.0 · revision 1353917439
Biography
Alfredo Catalani (19 June 1854 – 7 August 1893) was an Italian operatic composer. He is best remembered for his operas Loreley (1890) and La Wally (1892). La Wally was composed to a libretto by Luigi Illica, and features Catalani's most famous aria "Ebben? Ne andrò lontana." This aria, sung by American soprano Wilhelmenia Fernandez, was at the heart of Jean-Jacques Beineix's 1981 film Diva. Catalani's other operas were much less successful.
Life and career
Born in Lucca, Catalani came from a musical family. He was trained at the Milan Conservatory, where his teachers included Antonio Bazzini. Despite the growing influence of the verismo style of opera during the 1880s and early 1890s, Catalani chose to compose in a more traditional manner, which had traces of Wagner in it. As a result, his operas (La Wally excepted) have largely lost their place in the modern repertoire, even compared to those of Massenet and Puccini, whose style his own periodically resembles. (Catalani much resented Puccini's emergence and even accused Puccini, falsely, of plagiarism.)
The influence of Amilcare Ponchielli can also be recognized in Catalani's output. Catalani's reputation, like Ponchielli's, now rests almost entirely on one work. However, while La Wally enjoys occasional revivals, Ponchielli's La Gioconda has always been the more popular opera of the two (287 performances, most recently in 2008 at the Metropolitan Opera, New York, as opposed to only four for La Wally, not produced there since 1909).
In 1893, upon his premature death from tuberculosis in Milan, Catalani was interred in the Cimitero Monumentale, where Ponchielli and conductor Arturo Toscanini also lie. A passionate admirer of Catalani's music, Toscanini even named one of his daughters Wally. Toscanini recorded the prelude to Act IV of La Wally and the "Dance of the Water Nymphs" from Loreley in Carnegie Hall in August 1952 with the NBC Symphony Orchestra for RCA Victor.
In 1981, his work was highlighted by the release of Diva, a thriller directed by Jean-Jacques Beineix which employed the aria from La Wally.
Operas
La falce ("The Sickle"), Milan, 19 July 1875
Elda, Turin, 31 January 1880 (radically revised as Loreley)
Dejanice, Milan, 17 March 1883
Edmea, Milan, 27 February 1886
Loreley, Turin, 16 February 1890
La Wally, Milan, 20 January 1892
Symphonic works
Sinfonia a piena orchestra ("Symphony for Full Orchestra"), 1872
Il Mattino, sinfonia romantica ("Morning", Romantic symphony), 1874
Ero e Leandro, poema sinfonico ("Hero and Leander", Symphonic tone poem), Milan, 9 May 1885
Discography & profile
Normalised profile
Percentiles are computed over every artist in the database, so a tier-3 artist can still sit in the 95th percentile on a single axis.
| Metric | Value | Percentile |
|---|---|---|
| Wikipedia language versions | 30 | 90.4th |
| Spotify monthly listeners | — | no data |
| Release groups in DB | 7 | 80.4th |
| Studio albums | 7 | 87.5th |
| Awards recorded | 0 | 0th |
| Timeline events | 10 | 86.7th |
| Recording span (years) | -76 | 5.5th |
| Genres | 5 | 88.3th |
Percentiles are computed at render time; missing values mean the artist has no data on that axis.
Discography (7 release groups · 7 studio albums)
Albums · 7
1969 · studio album
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Tracklist · 6 tracks · 2:04:15
Disc 1ALa Wally: Atto I, parte 1. “Tra là là!”19:15BLa Wally: Atto I, parte 2. “Conel, l'Hagenbach? L'abborro!”18:00Disc 2CLa Wally: Atto II, parte 1. “Entro la folla che intorno s'aggira”14:30DLa Wally: Atto II, parte 2. “Conel, sei tu?”19:30Disc 3ELa Wally: Atto III. “Fa cor, Wally!”24:00FLa Wally: Atto IV. “Luogo sicuro questo no è più!”29:001986 · studio album
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Tracklist · 39 tracks · 2:02:17
Disc 11La Wally: Atto primo: “Tra là là, tra là là! Bravo! Gellner!”2:572La Wally: Atto primo: “Che cerchi piccol Walter?…”1:343La Wally: Atto primo: “Un dì, verso il Murzoll” (Canzone dell’Edelweis)3:534La Wally: Atto primo: “Non c’è che dir!… E’ veramente bella!”3:325La Wally: Atto primo: “Su per l’erto sentier”2:596La Wally: Atto primo: “Guai a chi lo tocca!…”3:267La Wally: Atto primo: “L’Hagenbach?… L’aborro!”2:468La Wally: Atto primo: “Sei tu che domandata hai la mia man?”5:359La Wally: Atto primo: “Ebben?… Ne andrò lontana”4:3810La Wally: Atto primo: “Ad ora così tarda”3:5711La Wally: Atto secondo: “Entro la folla che intorno si aggira”2:1812La Wally: Atto secondo: “Vedetelo venir il piccol Walter”1:5113La Wally: Atto secondo: “No!… Coll’amor tu non dèi scherzar”2:4914La Wally: Atto secondo: “La bella creatura”1:5615La Wally: Atto secondo: “Finor non m’han baciata”3:4716La Wally: Atto secondo: “Sei tu?!…” “Son io…”6:4017La Wally: Atto secondo: “Che brami, Wally?”2:4218La Wally: Atto secondo: “Già il canto fervido”3:4519La Wally: Atto secondo: “Perché Wally sei bella…”3:1020La Wally: Atto secondo: “Che dicon mai costoro?…”3:21Disc 21La Wally: Atto terzo: Andante mesto (Preludio)4:012La Wally: Atto terzo: “Fa cor, Wally!”1:333La Wally: Atto terzo: “O mia Wally!”1:484La Wally: Atto terzo: “Ebben… dunque?”1:515La Wally: Atto terzo: “L’Hagenbach qui?”1:306La Wally: Atto terzo: “Né mai dunque avrò pace?”2:597La Wally: Atto terzo: “Pur gli perdono”1:198La Wally: Atto terzo: “E’ desta ancora”1:219La Wally: Atto terzo: “Dio! Vive ancor!”2:5610La Wally: Atto terzo: “O santa e generosa creatura”4:1311La Wally: Atto quarto: “Andante (Preludio)”6:4712La Wally: Atto quarto: “Luogo sicuro questo non è più!”1:5413La Wally: Atto quarto: “Prendi, o fanciullo!… Serbala!…”1:4614La Wally: Atto quarto: “Ed or, fanciullo, vanne”2:4515La Wally: Atto quarto: “Eterne a me d’intorno”2:1016La Wally: Atto quarto: “E il vento iva lontano…”3:3217La Wally: Atto quarto: “Wally! Wally!”6:5318La Wally: Atto quarto: “Poi che fu sera”2:1419La Wally: Atto quarto: “Giuseppe, ove siam noi?…”3:091991 · studio album
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Tracklist · 21 tracks · 2:15:12
Disc 11Loreley: Atto primo. Sinfonia7:392Loreley: Atto primo. “Buona preda!”4:383Loreley: Atto primo. “Da me Walter che brama”2:584Loreley: Atto primo. “Nel verde maggio”5:045Loreley: Atto primo. “Dunque tutto fini”12:396Loreley: Atto primo. “Io stesso dunque Anna ho perduta”8:157Loreley: Atto primo. “Ove son… Donde vengo…”10:028Loreley: Atto secondo. “Gorgheggiate, usignoli”5:339Loreley: Atto secondo. “Amor, celeste ebbrezza”3:0210Loreley: Atto secondo. “Ah! I miei fanciulli”6:0911Loreley: Atto secondo. “Anna sofferma il piè”6:52Disc 21Loreley: Atto secondo. Valzer dei fiori7:002Loreley: Atto secondo. “Non t’angosciar se il riso”8:433Loreley: Atto secondo. “Vuoi tu provar gli spasimi”7:294Loreley: Atto terzo. “Si va facendo al bosco”3:375Loreley: Atto terzo. “Udite! Oggi è giorno di spettri”3:276Loreley: Atto terzo. “È morto un astro in cielo”5:307Loreley: Atto terzo. “Ove sono? Che fu?”6:028Loreley: Atto terzo. Danza delle ondine7:199Loreley: Atto terzo. “Vien al mio seno”5:1610Loreley: Atto terzo. “Deh! ti rammenti quel dì beato”7:581998 · studio album
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Tracklist · 24 tracks · 2:24:06
Disc 11La Wally: Atto I. “Tra la la, tra la la! Bravo! Gellner!”4:302La Wally: Atto I. “Un dì, verso il Murzoll”8:153La Wally: Atto I. “Su per l’erto sentier”6:364La Wally: Atto I. “L’Hagenbach, l’aborro”3:195La Wally: Atto I. “Sei tu che domandata hai la mia man?”5:366La Wally: Atto I. “Ebben?… Ne andro lontana”5:137La Wally: Atto I. “Ad ora così tarda”4:008La Wally: Atto II. “Entro la folla che intorno s’aggira”4:319La Wally: Atto II. “No!… Coll’amor tu non dei scherzar”5:1410La Wally: Atto II. “Finor non m’han baciata”3:4411La Wally: Atto II. “Sei tu?… Son io”9:5612La Wally: Atto II. “Già il canto fervido”2:5413La Wally: Atto II. “Perchè?… Perchè dimandi”6:08Disc 21La Wally: Atto III. Preludio4:102La Wally: Atto III. “Fa cor, Wally”5:473La Wally: Atto III. “L’Hagenbach qui?”1:354La Wally: Atto III. “Ne mai dunque avro pace?”4:535La Wally: Atto III. “E’ desta ancora”1:156La Wally: Atto III. “Dio! Vive ancor!”6:557La Wally: Atto IV. Preludio7:048La Wally: Atto IV. “Luogo sicuro questo non è più!”6:369La Wally: Atto IV. “Eterne a me d’intorno”6:0910La Wally: Atto IV. “M’hai salvato”10:1411La Wally: Finale dell’opera (Tebaldi, Bergonzi, Penagos 1968 Carnegie Hall)19:322000 · studio album
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Tracklist · 39 tracks · 2:01:52
Disc 11La Wally: Atto I. "Tra là là, tra là là! Bravo! Gellner!"4:032La Wally: Atto I. "Che cerchi piccol Walter?"3La Wally: Atto I. “Un di, verso il Murzoll”4:094La Wally: Atto I. “Non c'è che dir!... E veramente bella!”4:055La Wally: Atto I. “Su per l'erto sentier”1:436La Wally: Atto I. “Guai a chi lo tocca!”1:407La Wally: Atto I. “L'Hagenbach? L'aborro!”3:228La Wally: Atto I. “Sei tu che domandata hai la mia man?”5:389La Wally: Atto I. “Ebben?... Ne andro lontana”4:5810La Wally: Atto I. “Ad ora così tarda“3:4711La Wally: Atto II. “Entro la folla che intorno s'aggira”4:2812La Wally: Atto II. "Vedetelo venir il piccol Walter"13La Wally: Atto II. “No!... Coll'amor to non dei scherzar”3:3514La Wally: Atto II. “La bella creatura!”2:1515La Wally: Atto II. “Finor non m'lan baciata”4:2316La Wally: Atto II. “Sei tu?... Son io”6:5617La Wally: Atto II. “Che brami, Wally?”2:4718La Wally: Atto II. “Già il canto fervido”10:1719La Wally: Atto II. “Perchè Wally sei bella"20La Wally: Atto II. “Che dicon mai costoro?"Disc 21La Wally: Atto III. Prelude4:172La Wally: Atto III. “Fa cor, Wally!”2:533La Wally: Atto III. “O mia Wally"4La Wally: Atto III. “Ebben...dunque?”2:035La Wally: Atto III. “L'Hagenbach qui?”1:416La Wally: Atto III. “Ne mai dunque avro pace?”3:557La Wally: Atto III. “Pur gli perdono”2:358La Wally: Atto III. “E' desta ancora"9La Wally: Atto III. “Dio! Vive ancor!”6:5910La Wally: Atto III. “O santa e generosa creatura"11La Wally: Atto IV. Prelude7:0112La Wally: Atto IV. “Luogo sicuro questo non e più!”2:0313La Wally: Atto IV. “Prendi, o fanciullo,... serbala!”4:1414La Wally: Atto IV. “Ed or, fanciullo, vanne"15La Wally: Atto IV. “Eterne a me d'intorno”4:1916La Wally: Atto IV. “E il vento iva lontano"17La Wally: Atto IV. “Wally! Wally!”1:3918La Wally: Atto IV. “Poi che fu sera”3:5419La Wally: Atto IV. “Giuseppe, ove siam noi?”6:13Ero e Leandro / Contemplazione / Il Mattino
2014 · studio album
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1Ero e Leandro18:172Scherzo5:363Andantino4:444Contemplazione11:365Il Mattino “Sinfonia romantica”14:332016 · studio album
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Tracklist · 31 tracks · 1:57:21
Disc 11La Wally : Atto I. Prelude: “Tra la la, tra la la la!”3:562La Wally : Atto I. “Un di, verso il Murzoll, una fanciulla”4:003La Wally : Atto I. “Non c’è che dir!”3:374La Wally : Atto I. “Su per l’erto sentier”1:305La Wally : Atto I. “Ma si direbbe”1:386La Wally : Atto I. “Chi oso levar sul padre mio la mano?”3:447La Wally : Atto I. “L’Hagenbach? L’aborro!”3:008La Wally : Atto I. “Sei tu che domandata hai la mia man?”5:459La Wally : Atto I. “Ebben? … N’andro lontana”3:4810La Wally : Atto I. “Ad ora così tarda e così sola”3:2711La Wally : Atto II. “Entro la folla che intorno si aggira”4:0912La Wally : Atto II. “No! … Coll’amore tu no dei scherzar”3:1313La Wally : Atto II. “La bella creatura!”1:5514La Wally : Atto II. “Finor non m’han baciata”3:5415La Wally : Atto II. “Sei tu? Son io”6:3116La Wally : Atto II. “Che brami, Wally?”3:1717La Wally : Atto II. “Già il canto fervido”8:35Disc 21La Wally : Atto III. Interlude4:182La Wally : Atto III. “Fa cor, Wally!”2:453La Wally : Atto III. “Ebben, dunque?”1:524La Wally : Atto III. “L’Hagenbach qui? Egli all’Hochstoff?”"1:315La Wally : Atto III. “Ne mai dunque avro pace?”3:556La Wally : Atto III. “Buio e il sentier… la lampada s’è spenta”2:047La Wally : Atto III. “Dio! Vive ancor!”6:288La Wally : Atto IV. Introduction6:399La Wally : Atto IV. “Luogo sicuro questo non e più!”1:5610La Wally : Atto IV. “Prendi, o fanciullo!… Serbala!”4:1311La Wally : Atto IV. “Eterna a me d’intorno piange la neve lacrime!”4:0912La Wally : Atto IV. “Wally! Wally!”1:3113La Wally : Atto IV. “M’hai salvato”3:5914La Wally : Atto IV. “Quando a Sölden provocatrice balda”6:02
Stats & PK
Percentile within all 23,672 published artists.Put Alfredo Catalani head-to-head →
| Metric | Value | Percentile |
|---|---|---|
| Wikipedia language versions | 30 | 90.4th |
| Spotify monthly listeners | — | no data |
| Release groups in DB | 7 | 80.4th |
| Studio albums | 7 | 87.5th |
| Awards recorded | 0 | 0th |
| Timeline events | 10 | 86.7th |
| Recording span (years) | -76 | 5.5th |
| Genres | 5 | 88.3th |
Awards & honours
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Wikidata: Q352722 · MusicBrainz: eaac4e33-da89-4859-9201-c9e70bad086f
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