Leoncavallo : Scarecrow Press : 9780810858732 : 0810858738 : 03 Feb 2007 : Leoncavallo: Life and Works is the first fully documented biography of the beloved and popular composer Ruggiero Leoncavallo (1857-1919), whose credits includePagliacci and the operatic works Chatterton, Der Roland von Berlin,Zazà, Maïa, Zingari, La bohème, and the incomplete trilogy Crepusculum. Author Konrad Dryden has amassed material from hundreds of unpublished letters and photographs, creating the most complete portrait of the composer to date. This book examines various facets of Leoncavallo's history: from his youth as the son of the Naples' judge who presided over the murder trial on whichPagliacci was based to his studies with the poet Giosuè Carducci, and from his sojourn in France as acafé-chantant pianist to his appointment in Egypt as music instructor to the Khedive. Careful documentation and plot synopses of Leoncavallo's numerous works are provided and his two U.S. tours are discussed. The biog