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LEONCAVALLO RUGGERO: (1857-1919)
LEONCAVALLO RUGGERO: (1857-1919) Italian composer. A good A.M.Q.S., R. Leoncavallo, to the verso of his personal printed oblong 12mo Visiting Card, featuring his printed name ( ´R. Leoncavallo´) to the centre, Munich, 13th August 1894. Leoncavallo has penned two bars of music, with lyrics beneath, which he identifies as being from Act III of I Medici. Some very light, minor age wear to the edges of the recto, otherwise VG I Medici is an opera in four acts composed by Leoncavallo, with a libretto by the composer, which received its premiere at the Teatro Dal Verme in Milan on 6th November 1893. The opera is set in Renaissance Florence at the court of Lorenzo de´ Medici.
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